PLANS to carry out work on a landfill site with a view to creating a golf course look set to be agreed, subject to further discussion over conditions.

An application was made by Link Property Limited after they were told by the Environment Agency under the Reservoirs Act, to carry out remedial work on the Alvechurch Highway site at Lydiate Ash. The aim of the work is to prevent flooding and a circular slip occurring.

The applicant has been refused permission on various occasions by Bromsgrove District Council's planning committee to carry out the required work, which would involve tipping a quantity of fill onto the site for water management purposes. But at a meeting on November 8 a decision was made to delegate the application to a sub-committee made up of Councillors Brian Fuller and John Ruck, and planning committee chairman Geoff Denaro, for further discussion of conditions of the application, with view to approval next month.

Councillor Brian Fuller said that another refusal of the application would be "perverse" as the applicant would be in hot water with the Environment Agency.

"If we do not give approval for the work to be carried out, the Environment Agency will put the applicant up in court," he said.

"We cannot delay this any longer otherwise we will find ourselves in front of a judge and we are going to have to accept that an awful lot of muck has to be tipped onto the site to soak up the water.

"It is not about golf courses, it is about public safety."