ENVIRONMENTAL experts have been accused of ignoring responses to consultation after pressing ahead with proposals for a landfill site in Wirral.

Merseyside Waste Environmental Advisory Service (MEAS) had consulted on a range of sites in its Waste Development Plan Document (DPD) Report over a nine-week period ending on January 16.

Last year, Wirral Council said it opposed the six sites highlighted by waste experts.

The consultation also received an overwhelming number of responses opposed to the landfill sites in Wirral.

However, a report just published by MEAS, with the results of the consultation, recommend that two sites in Wirral should be investigated further.

These are the Carr Lane brickworks site which is recommended to go forward for “further assessment for landfill capacity”, and the site at Prenton Dell which is proposed to “possibly go forward for assessment subject to further discussions with District Council and landowner”.

Moreton councillor Chris Blakeley last night condemned the report’s recommendations.

The report’s preparation was agreed through council resolutions from all six participating districts – Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral Councils,.

Cllr Blakeley said: “Not only are we paying towards this report, but then they are ignoring what we say to them.”

He pledged to begin a campaign opposing any use of the site for landfill and said he and fellow Moreton councillors would be distributing letters to residents urging them to back the opposition to the landfill sites.