LOTS of densely-populated parts of urban East Lancashire are served by roads which are comparatively narrow and often crowded with parked cars.

The kind of terraced housing which covers so much of the area was never built to accommodate a car - or sometimes two or three - for every household.

So it's not surprising that residents in Huncoat and Clayton-le-Moors are apprehensive about even more huge lorries using their streets to get rid of East Lancashire's waste.

Already they have scores making the trip to use Whinney Hill landfill site and the nearby brickworks.

Now land close to Whinney Hill has been earmarked by Lancashire County Council for a waste treatment centre - a development which would considerably increase traffic.

Plans by the council to create a special road from the M65 collapsed when the Highways Agency said it could not support the idea.

Now the county has unveiled plans for a link road to the former Huncoat power station site which would also take lorries going to the dump.

The road is sorely needed to help to alleviate the noise and misery suffered by local residents and ease the worry of pedestrians becoming road accidents