CORSHAM Town Council is opposing a landowner who wants to use his industrial land for shredding motor tyres.

The owner, who currently uses the site in Brockleaze, Neston, to develop plastics, has applied for a Certificate of Lawfulness to use the site for shredding.

The land can currently be used for industrial processes that can be carried out in a residential area without causing detrimental noise, vibration, smell, fumes, smoke, soot, ash, dust or grit.

North Wiltshire District Council now has to decide whether tyre shredding would create these problems or not.

But the council planning committee said the use would create an unacceptable increase in traffic along narrow lanes, to and from the site.

It also objected to the proposal because it says the shredding of rubber would cause detrimental noise and odours to the surrounding residential properties and that there would be a high fire risk that would be unacceptable in a residential area.

"It is a sensitive site with a history of problems," said Coun James Fraser.

North Wiltshire District Council is now investigating the proposal.