Residents have been in touch with the Westfield Councillor Team about the appalling smell coming from the ring road covering Westfield Ward and even extending into the city centre. We have been in touch with the council’s enforcement officers in Public Protection who have been to the farm near Rufforth and Abatement Notices have been served on Whitkirk Waste Solutions. It is stated it would take a week to empty the lagoon so they must comply by Friday 24th – hopefully the smell will abate as quickly as the lagoon shrinks.

The Environment Agency have stated that because it is not actually classed as waste (It is a PAS 110 certified digestant) they do not have powers.

We have asked that action is taken to prevent a repeat as there have been smell issues in recent weeks at times when the weather has been so hot that people have had to leave windows open. Some residents will recall when this was last an issue in 2007 when there was a similar strong smell from the same area.