Tyre Mountain to Topple

The Eastern Daily Press describes it as "infamous", but despite its local notoriety days may be numbered for the tyre mountain on the Tattersett Business Park, near Fakenham. The newspaper reports that work is "underway" towards a planning application for the creation of a £1 million re-cycling facility.

Some 600,000 tyres littering the site have been getting up on people’s nerves, under their feet and up their noses for more than a decade, but now businessman Roger Gawn, who acquired the business park earlier this year, says he is moving towards the establishment of a facility that would both process the on-site tyres and deal with the growing problem of unwanted tyres within the region. Gawn said there have already been meetings between the various interested parties, including North Norfolk District Council and the Environment Agency.

“I am pressing ahead with my solution to this major problem which is to establish a properly-run eco-friendly tyre re-cycling operation,” Gawn told the Eastern Daily Press. “Not only would such an operation deal with the existing problem but would also provide a way of dealing with the re-cycling of tyres in the region.” Gawn reports having engaged in discussions with people within the recycling industry to identify commercial uses for the end crumb product.

“We are talking of a one million pound operation, but it will provide a once-and-for-all solution to the problem and provide new jobs,” added Gawn. “It would also provide knock-on jobs for people involved in the commercial manufacturing at the other end of the process. I intend to press ahead with this scheme.”