PLANS to process mountains of waste products at Buckfastleigh are not a done deal, worried residents were told.

Townspeople have been urged to fight the MVV Environment and Gilpin Demolition plan to set up a 'materials recovery facility' at Whitecleaves Quarry, processing up to 90,000 tonnes of incinerator ash and demolition waste a year.

The town hall was packed out on Thursday last week as around 250 people attended a public meeting held by Buckfastleigh Community Forum.

Forum chairman Neil Smith said he believed the town can win.

'The more I understand what is going on, the more I believe we can stop it because it is a bad plan,' he said.

Lawyers are looking at the existing permission, to see if work carried out at the quarry over the past three years complies.

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