Plans for a landfill site at a Huddersfield beauty spot has led to opposition.

Peter Pogson, of Causeway Green Farm, has applied for consent for an inert waste landfill at his Scammonden farm.

Inert waste - which includes soil, brick and building rubble - would be disposed of in fields around Nont Sarahs.

It would be metres from the former pub, which is the home of Jan Booth, who runs a coffee house and shop from it.

She is among 20 objectors who have submitted concerns to Kirklees Council so far.

Mrs Booth said: “I came here because it is so beautiful, to live the quiet life in the country and because I love Nont Sarahs and wanted to run my businesses from here.

The Nont Sarah's at Scammonden
The Nont Sarah's at Scammonden

“We have pheasants, grouse and amazing wildlife here and this will destroy it all.

“It will be right up against my property wall, I could open my window and shake the hands of the people in the diggers, that’s how close it will be.

“The noise, dirt and dust will be intolerable, I won’t be able to open my windows.

“If the land is levelled we won’t have the view of the Dam and I think it will shut my business down.

“I’m working seven days a week to get it off the ground, we have a coffee shop open on a weekend but this will put everything I’m working to do at risk.”

She received a formal letter notifying her of the application from Kirklees Council, but believes few people will know about it due to the rural location.

She explained: “This doesn’t just affect us here, there could have 25 trucks a day coming to and from the site. They will come through Outlane and I don’t think the people there have been informed.”

In the application, Mr Pogson claims that the land has poor drainage and is marshy and is unsuitable for farming.

Jan Booth of Nont Sarah's public house at Scammonden, who is concerned about a planning application for a land fill site in a field which borders the pub.

A crop was taken in 2014, but he now has other ideas for it.

The proposal says Mr Pogson’s wish is to “improve the land sufficiently to allow the land to be farmed, to do this they propose importing material to change the levels and improve the drainage”.

It will take four and a half years to fill the land in smaller sections.

Clr David Ridgway, Colne Valley Lib Dem, is among those objecting: “I am not happy with it.

“Inert waste is building rubble and once you start putting waste in you open a bag of worms, you don’t know what it’s contaminated with.”

The application is open to public comments at Kirklees Council until October 28.