A CONTROVERSIAL scheme to tip 250,000 tonnes of soil and stones into a deep ravine to form a causeway to take farm animals from one field to another is set to raise objections from Pendle councillors.

The project at Moor Isles Farm, Woodend Road, Reedley, will be decided by Lancashire County Council but Pendle Council, as the local authority, has been asked for its opinion.

Its Brierfield and Reedley area committee is recommended to object to the scheme when it meets on Tuesday on the grounds that the large-scale tipping operation would be unacceptable in an area classified as a biological heritage site.

Farmer Stuart Douglas argued the causeway would mean he no longer had to make lengthy journeys along local roads with a tractor and trailer to get to outlying fields and animals.

Council planners said the disruption and irreversible changes to the landscape caused by the scheme, which would involve 25 lorries a day visiting the site to tip materials, was unwarranted and unjustifiable simply to provide a cattle track.

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