SAFETY watchdogs are to meet councillors next week to discuss concerns over a Huddersfield chemical firm.

Officials of the Environment Agency and the Health and Safety Executive will meet Kirklees Council on Wednesday, January 18.

They are to brief councillors on continued inquiries into the Grosvenor Chemical plant in Linthwaite – rocked by a huge fire in 2010.

Since the huge blaze, local residents and councillors have expressed concern over the firm’s complex alongside the River Colne.

Councillors David Ridgway and Nicola Turner have held meetings with residents and have pressed for action from the two agencies.

They want the agencies to reassure people about what can be done to protect residents and the environment from any similar incident in the future.

The huge fire rocked the Linthwaite plant on May 24, 2010.

It needed the actions of 150 fire-fighters before it was brought under control and resulted in serious damage to parts of the plant and damage to the environment.