A MUM has hit out at plans for a massive clean-energy complex close to her home.

Sarah Nash-Myers fears that noxious fumes will billow from the Marley site.

And she has blasted an alleged lack of consultation with residents over the scheme.

Mrs Nash-Myers, of The Croft, Thwaites, voiced her concerns after the Keighley News last week revealed that work was scheduled to start later this year on the £135 million project.

Two plants for recycling waste will be built on the derelict former gasworks site in Airedale Road, alongside the Aire Valley trunk road.

The initiative will also include an education and visitor centre, plus an office building, parking and landscaping.

And a data-storage centre and offices are to be built on land in nearby Dalton Lane.

Around 300 jobs will be created during the construction phase and a further 170-plus when the complex is operational.

"I wholeheartedly support green technology and the use of brownfield sites but I cannot see what possible benefits this will bring for local residents," said Mrs Nash-Myers, a mother of three-year-old twin girls.

"I am sick with worry about the impact this development may have on our and other residents' quality of life.

"My main concerns are chimneys pumping out fumes next door to where my children play in our garden and across a wide area, noise pollution both during the building phase and when the plant is operating and the visual impact the complex will have.

"This won't just affect people living next-door to the site. It will be felt by people in Long Lee and Riddlesden and even the residents of Bingley will find their air quality diminished by gases being blown by the prevailing wind down the valley.

"Also, despite living within 100 metres of the site, no local residents were invited to a consultation meeting."

But John Steel – of JO Steel Consulting, agent for the scheme – refuted the claims.

He says strict controls are imposed on emissions from such plants.

"The Environment Agency will have to issue a permit and there are very stringent checks on what is emitted," he said.

"Neither the agency, environmental health nor Public Health England have raised objections to the scheme."

He said that during construction, hours of work would be controlled and screens will be erected to minimise noise. A permanent 'acoustic fence' is planned on the site's southern boundary.

Mr Steel said a well-publicised public consultation event had been held at Keighley Civic Centre, which was attended by people from across the area.

"Residents are entitled to make any representations they wish," he added.

An amended planning application to one approved last year has been submitted to Bradford Council.

Visit the planning section of the council website, bradford.gov.uk, and search for application 15/01381/FUL .