A COMPANY hopes that its revised plans will be supported by campaigners who, for months, have opposed the building of a waste transfer site near their homes.

Hundreds of residents and business people wrote letters of complaint over plans to build the station at Brompton-on-Swale.

After being faced with objection over its previous proposals for similar facilities at Scorton, near Catterick, and Brompton-on-Swale, Yorwaste is seeking planning permission to build the temporary station at Tancred Quarry, near Scorton.

The Northallerton company said if its application to North Yorkshire County Council is successful, it will withdraw the earlier proposals.

Yesterday, local people received letters from Steve Grieve, managing director of Yorwaste, explaining the reasons behind the new application.

He wrote: "We have re-evaluated our options and have discussed these at length with the county's planning authority and other consultees, and have listened carefully to the case made by local residents and businesses.

"It is not the company's intention to cause anxiety and concern amongst its neighbours.

"We hope the application will receive the unequivocal support of local people and businesses, and look forward to the application being favourably considered by the planning authority."

Yorwaste has already been granted planning permission for an integrated waste management facility to be built at Tancred.

The waste transfer site will be used as a temporary measure, until the Tancred facility is ready for use in 2005.

Local businessman Mike Harris was one of many who objected to earlier proposals to create the facility at the old potato store in Bridge Road, Brompton-on-Swale.

He believes the new facilities will be much more acceptable to both residents and businesses.

"At least the site will not be directly on people's doorstep," he said.

"We accept and support the fact Yorwaste has a job to do, but we also have businesses to run and homes to live in.

"Tancred Quarry seems to be the best place for the site as it has already been earmarked as a landfill site in the future by Yorwaste."