Overview
- Residents led a slow-walk protest at the site Friday, with more than 100 people calling for closure as local MP Lorraine Beavers joined them and said she will ask the Prime Minister to visit.
- The Environment Agency says complaints now exceed 20,000, confirms multiple permit breaches since 2024, and warns it will take further enforcement if odour controls do not improve.
- Transwaste says it filed a permanent capping plan in December 2025, is waiting for approval, and is hopeful it can start the work Monday, while citing EA monitoring that it says meets WHO limits.
- People report nosebleeds, headaches, nausea, breathing problems, and chest infections, with some hospitalised and parents pulling children from school on bad-smell days.
- The landfill reopened in late 2023 after being shut in 2017, and the EA says reopening old sites can release hydrogen sulphide gas that smells like rotten eggs, which helps explain the recent spikes.