FINALLY! Waste mountain clear up starts at Brierley Hill
It is the sight people living on a Brierley Hill street have been waiting to see for seven years – rubbish finally being removed from the infamous waste mountain.
The rubbish has greeted residents from their bedroom windows for so long they have become used to it being there but now, at long last, it is being shifted.
Diggers have now moved onto the former Refuse Derived Fuel site in Moor Street and began picking away at the mound of rubbish, which includes bricks, wood, plastic and household waste. It is expected to take eight months to remove all the waste, which one reached 40ft.
Brierley Hill councillor Rachel Harris has told of her relief at getting the result which she admitted she had feared might never come. She has led the campaign for action along with residents in Moor Street.
Councillor Harris said: "I am pleased for the local people - we are finally going to see the rubbish go down.
"It has been a long journey and it has been a difficult journey for all of us having to go through the court process and having to wait for all the different parties to come together. The owners of the site are clearly working with the Environment Agency on this and we can look forward to having the site cleared by late autumn.
"I never gave up hope that we couldn't find a solution. Everybody is over the moon this nuisance is finally going."
It comes as it was revealed plans to build flats on the RDF site were likely to be resurrected once the rubbish is cleared. A scheme to build two modern housing blocks containing 94 flats were unveiled last year but stalled as a developer could not be attracted over fears they might be landed with the clean-up bill.
