Ian Clarke Council officials are in talks with a landowner about a possible site for a long-awaited recycling centre for the Dereham area.People have faced up to a 30-mile round trip to Ashill, near Watton, or Hempton, near Fakenham, for the household waste sites after the facility at Beetley shut in October 2004.
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Council officials are in talks with a landowner about a possible site for a long-awaited recycling centre for the Dereham area.
People have faced up to a 30-mile round trip to Ashill, near Watton, or Hempton, near Fakenham, for the household waste sites after the facility at Beetley shut in October 2004.
The EDP understands negotiations for a site in Dereham are “progressing well” and there could be an announcement early in the new year - but talks are at a “sensitive stage.”
A Norfolk County Council spokesman said “Norfolk County Council has made financial provision in next year's budget for a state-of-the-art recycling centre for Dereham - similar to the brand new purpose built site at King's Lynn.
“We haven't purchased any land but are in negotiations with a landowner.”
In 2006 five sites were looked at but none were suitable and in 2005 a plan to house the recycling centre on the Rash's Green Industrial Estate were abandoned after fierce opposition from local residents due to concerns about noise and smell.
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