A new Household Waste Recycling Centre in Tattershall Thorpe has been approved by Lincolnshire councillors, despite fears that it was a former toxic waste dumping site.
The council’s new £2 million facility will replace one further up the road contracted to a third party company, which is due to close later this year.
The concerns were raised after the appearance of a warning sign on the gate which Lincolnshire County Council denied was theirs.
Officers told councillors: “The site in its present form is not showing evidence of contamination or leakage within the site itself.”
However, they said measures had been taken in order to minimise disturbance to the site, including that it will be constructed on a concrete platform.