RESIDENTS of Priorfields and St Margaret's Mead in, Marlborough, will attend a meeting in the town hall at 7pm on Tuesday, October 1, to register their worries about a proposed neighbourhood waste recycling centre.

The county council depot off Salisbury Road is identified in the revised draft waste local plan as a possible site for the recycling centre.

Although the site is within an area of outstanding natural beauty on the edge of Savernake Forest, it is already earmarked as employment development land.

When town councillors first discussed the plan, they asked for a detailed traffic assessment to discuss the problem of access from the busy A346.

Priorfields resident Val Courtney said: "It will be operating seven days a week and it will be noisy and probably dirty."

Town councillor Graham Francis, in whose ward the site is, said: "Everyone wants recycling opportunities but no one wants a recycling centre in their back yard. The noise and the increased traffic will certainly be a cause of concern, but it is difficult to see where else in Marlborough you could put a facility like this.

"But there is no doubt it is very close to homes and the county council really should reconsider it."

A spokesman for the county council said the meeting will be discussing the whole waste local plan, although the proposed recycling centre will be a main topic of discussion. No planning applications have been submitted for its development, he said.