THE leader of Tendring Council has vowed to fight the latest plans to turn Ardleigh into a “dumping ground”.

Neil Stock, who represents Ardleigh and Little Bromley, has said enough is enough after the village was chosen as a preferred site for three different types of waste.

Essex County Council is consulting over a range of options for household waste, biological waste, inert waste recycling and inert landfill.

A site in Ardleigh, close to the A120, has been earmarked for a huge household waste treatment plant, which could be used to deal with 115,000 tonnes a year.

It is one of six preferred sites for future household waste plants.

Other plans are for new and expanded treatment plants to be built in north Essex to cope with the growing amount of waste from housing developments .

Slough Farm, in Ardleigh, has been earmarked for disposing of 40,000 tonnes every year . The site has also been earmarked for potentially taking 105,000 tonnes of landfill a year.

Mr Stock said: “It is concerning. Ardleigh, geographically, is an extremely large parish. “It is under threat from housing, mineral sites and now, it seems, waste sites as well.”