Calls for nuclear waste site proposals on Lincolnshire coast to be dropped due to strong local opposition

Campaigners on the Lincolnshire coast say it's time to throw out proposals for a nuclear waste site after success at the recent local elections.

It was announced last year that the Theddlethorpe Gas Terminal could become the entry point for a nuclear storage facility to dispose of around 10% of the UK’s nuclear waste.

Those against the plans saw their candidates do well in both parish and district council elections.

They say that means that East Lindsey District Council and Lincolnshire County Council should not proceed any further with the process of looking into the proposals and reject them as soon as possible.

Chair of the Guardians of the East Coast group is Ken Smith.

He told us: "Now we're in a position of saying to the county and district - this is what the people have decided."

"The people have spoken, it's now down to you to take notice of what they've said and bring this whole thing to an end. "

"What we've done is to do what politicians keep telling us to do, to make our views known at the ballot box."

"In doing so we've managed to get every single parish council in the area now populated with people that are against the project."

"Really it's a matter of trying to protect what's here for future generations."

"What is here is a very nice, open natural countryside with a tourist town."

The company involved Nuclear Waste Services says the multi-billion pound Geological Disposal Facility could help create more than 4,000 jobs in the local area over 25 years.