A DECISION on a controversial bid to extend the use of a quarry will not be made until the new year.

Yorwaste is seeking North Yorkshire County Council's backing for a waste management and recycling centre at Tancred Quarry, near Scorton.

The company has also earmarked nearby farmland as a possible dumping ground for waste and rubble, which would be capped off and turfed over after 15 years.

But the plans have sparked objections in villages nearby with almost 40 people writing to the authority demanding the projects are rejected. They fear pollution, noise and extra traffic will ruin their quality of life.

Councillors have decided they will not vote on the issue until they have visited the site, but the visit will not be arranged before January