Concerned residents are to stage a meeting to discuss plans to open a waste recycling unit in a Shropshire village.

The meeting, in Eardington near Bridgnorth, has been called by the local parish council to keep villagers informed about the progress of an application by industrialists B A Shorthouse to build the recycling unit and storage facility at a nearby industrial estate.

Eardington Parish Council chairman David Hollyhead has urged residents to attend the meeting at 7.30pm tonight to discuss the proposal for the site at Knowle Sands industrial park.

Parish clerk Eileen Reynolds said: “The chairman is anxious that all interested local residents are made fully aware and are able to comment on the latest information before the application goes before Shropshire Council’s planning committee.”

She said the company planned to crush and recycle used concrete on the site, and although it was not hazardous, it would be a nuisance to householders in the vicinity. “There are plenty of other locations nearby where such a development could be sited,” she said.

The clerk said villagers were concerned about dust from the site.

“The developers have assured that the work will be done inside a building and resprayed with water to prevent the build up of residue from the process,” she said.

The application to go before planners at a future date, states: “The unit will be used as a materials recycling facility and transfer station for non-hazardous waste streams, crushing and screening inert waste outside with associated storage of associated haulage vehicles and skips at Knowle Sands Industrial Estate.”

Mrs Reynolds said: “We have discovered amendments and the chairman wants to bring these to the attention of people in the parish.”

By Brett Gibbons