An industrial estate in Chessington has been earmarked for new waste treatment facilities after the South London Waste Partnership completed its list of sites.
Chessington Industrial Area, next to the A3 between Tolworth and Hook, is one of 11 sites across Croydon, Merton and Sutton identified as possible locations for the seven hectares needed over the next 10 years.
Jim Taylor, of the Chessington District Residents’ Association, said: "It all depends on what they want to put there. We have had this conversation with the council.
"With the small operations in a hangar, you don’t know anything about it. It is the big operations where they collect waste.
"It is the recycling we could accomodate here rather than large scale waste."
Councillor Simon James, Kingston’s cabinet member for sustainable planning, said there was a need for more treatment facilities as the amount of waste in the four boroughs was expected to rise to almost 1.4m tonnes in the next 10 years.
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