CONCERNED residents are urging people to object to plans for a waste transfer unit in Coggeshall.
Planning permission for the unit in Priors Way was rejected by Essex County Council at the beginning of the year, but developer Woodland Group has launched an appeal in a bid to overturn that decision.
People who live nearby and use the A120 daily are worried the number of lorries going through the village will cause havoc.
Clarice Corton, 52, who expressed her concerns at a Coggeshall Parish Council meeting on Monday, told the Chronicle: "The recycling unit would be adjacent to the A120 and a very dangerous section of the road.
"There have been deaths on that particular junction of the road and it got turned down last time by the authorities and the Highways Agency for health and safety reasons.
"There's enough traffic going through there as it is. without having more lorries going through there. And Honywood School is opposite.
"Lorries literally have to straddle the central reservation. Allowing it would mean signing someone's death warrant."
Lesley Cobbold, 46, who works at St Peter's Primary School, is also worried about the increased amounts of traffic that would go through the village.
"That junction is a death trap," she said. "At the moment we get an awful lot of lorries coming through the village.
"It's just such a small, pretty village and there is a pre-school based at the secondary school. It's not fair on the children."
Woodland Group has had six months to prepare an appeal, however residents claim they were only notified of it last week.
Lynn Storey-Smith, who currently lives in Chelmsford and is moving to Coggeshall tomorrow (Friday), only found out about the appeal at the weekend. "I don't think a lot of people realise there are appeals and that there is such a short time to lodge objections," she said.
Woodland Group did not respond to the Chronicle.
Any objections must be sent in writing to the Planning Inspectorate by November 27.
Visit www.coggeshall-pc.gov.uk for more details.