Councillors will send an objection against Weylands Treatment Works to Surrey County Council, due to fears it could bring "juggernauts" down Walton's roads.

The second application for the site was discussed at a sub-committee meeting following officers' recommendation to object.

Applicant Clean Power had made changes from the first application, but councillors unanimously opposed the plans, due to concerns about odour and extra traffic on the roads leading to the proposed waste management site in Molesey Road, Walton.

Christine Ellera, senior planning officer for Elmbridge Council, said: "If the council promotes this application and there are matters such as odours, us as a council will have to deal with any statutory complaints."

The application has caused strife for people who have campaigned since 2013 against the development, although there were only four members of the public at the meeting on Monday, April 13.

Mick Flannigan, of Rydens Road, said he was not surprised with the council objection because the current traffic houses in the road already shaked and rattled when lorries travel past.

He said: "The existing waste operation at Weylands is bad enough. Extending it and creating even more HGV traffic would be simply intolerable."

Councillor Alan Kopitko wanted to know where the food waste would be coming from, but a spokesman from the Environmental Health team told the councillors the applicant had not provided this information.

He said: "If it isn't coming from a local facility then my question is why does it need to be put were they want to put it."

Councillor Andrew Kelly: "I sincerely hope that Surrey do exactly what they did last time which is refuse it."

Councillor Rachael Lake, Surrey County Councillor for Walton, made reference to the change in size of lorries which would be going to and from the site.

She said: "The food waste type vehicles, I'm very reluctant to use the word juggernaut, but it's not the type we heavy duty lorry that we are used to seeing."

The Environmental Health team said their main concern was "a lack of weight" in the planning being given to the potential odour problems.

A spokesman said: "The lorries won't be airtight so some of the waste that they will be bringing will have a considerable odour to it. So if that gets stuck on the road on a summers day then some of the people living nearby maybe subjected to odour."

An objection will be sent to Surrey County Council, due to concerns about highway safety and inadequate infrastructure, impact on local residents , businesses and greenbelt, land contamination and the impact on air quality.