A KINGTON company is hoping it will be third time lucky after re-submitting plans to build a new incinerator in nearby Lyonshall.

Animal Funeral Services Ltd has been using temporary measures to dispose of carcases since a previous incinerator burned down in 2001, after which two more proposals were made to replace it.

The first was withdrawn in 2004 when 150 residents claimed road access was not sufficient for the scale of the operation and petitioned, and the second collapsed last year when it came up against environmental objections.

This time, however, agent Paul Smith Associates has stressed approval will not increase vehicular movements in the village and that detailed discussions had taken place with Defra and the Environment Agency to overcome other problems.

Aside from that, plans for a plant processing and storing up to 150 tons of waste, 56 tons of clinical waste and 18,000 litres of chemicals from veterinary x-rays a year were similar to those submitted last year.

The proposed 235-metre square building at Litfield House has also been reduced in height from previous designs to a maximum of 4.5metres and more vans, of which no more than four would visit between 8am and 5pm daily, instead of lorries were to take waste in and out.