The closure of Walleys Quarry comes after years of residents' protests and several court battles.
The Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal by lawyers for a boy who argued his life was being shortened due to noxious landfill gases from Walleys Quarry in 2022. Mathew Richards, who was five at the time, had breathing difficulties after being born prematurely with a chronic lung disease. He lived with his family near the landfill site.
Legal action began when Mathew's lawyers successfully argued at the High Court that hydrogen sulphide - a poisonous, corrosive gas with an eggy smell - had worsened his underlying health issues, and emissions were affecting hundreds and probably thousands of local people. The court ordered the Environment Agency to do more to control H2S levels.
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