FURY has erupted over a renewed bid to create a waste transfer site only yards away from existing businesses.

Members of Richmondshire District Council rejected a proposal for a waste site at the old potato store on Bridge Road, Brompton-on-Swale, in November last year.

But now the company behind the application, Yorwaste, has lodged an appeal against the council's dismissal of its plans.

The company has also submitted an alternative plan for a different site.

People have expressed their outrage over the company's decision to appeal and the new plans and are proposing to forward their objections to the district council and mount a strong campaign.

Businessman Mike Harris said: "It has already been rejected once for sound reasons. The new proposals would have a major effect on local firms and is also very near to a residential area."

The waste site was initially rejected after a storm of local protest and district councillors decided it contravened the local plan and was incompatible with the characters and uses of the area.

When the application failed Yorwaste submitted a different plan for a waste transfer unit at the nearby Scorton landfill site.

For planning reasons that application has had to be made to the county council and its members have not yet made their decision on it.

The alternative scheme at Scorton has already caused a similar reaction to the first bid, with more than 200 villagers writing in to object.

Northallerton-based Yorwaste wants to create a transfer facility for sorting of household waste from the Richmondshire and Hambleton districts, which would then be taken on to the Scorton landfill site.

However, as that site has only a limited life both of the proposed transfer sites would only be used on a temporary basis until the replacement landfill site is ready for use in October 2005.

Yorwaste's managing director Steve Grieve said: "A transfer site for household waste is required and our original proposal for Bridge Road was thought to be the best all round.

"We still feel it is right and have therefore decided to appeal.

"Applications for any waste facility will always receive a lot of objections locally."