We have extensive experience in challenging waste-related development and operations including proposed waste incinerators, anaerobic digestors and agricultural muck storage and spreading.

Waste-related operations can be a source of discontent for individuals and communities because of the associated issues of odour, traffic, pollution, noise and other impacts that are often part-and-parcel of waste processing. There are also climate concerns.

We are frequently deployed to write objection letters on behalf of our clients to challenge proposed schemes and have contributed to planning permissions being refused. We have also successfully challenged grants of planning permission for waste-related operations in court, including one controversial incinerator intended experimentally to operate at unusually high temperatures.

Sometimes clients approach us well after planning permission has been granted and a waste scheme is already operational, in which case we are able to consider continuing breaches of planning and environmental permits, as well as issues of nuisance where appropriate.