Netherfield stinks!
BUT LOCALS SAY THE PONG HAS GONE ON FOR DECADES
PEOPLE in Netherfield have complained about an increasingly unpleasant smell in the area.
In recent days residents have taken to social media to complain about the stink.
Some said that they had contacted Gedling Borough Council’s environmental health department to report the problem.
But others had resigned themselves to the situation as they said it was a constant in the town and that they had become used to it.
Frederick Todd, 74, who is retired and lives in Netherfield, told the Post: “If you’re blind you would be able to find your way to Netherfield just by the smell.
“You’ve got sewage and there’s a bio firm down the bottom there, making methane.
“Before, it used to be a maggot factory until it burnt down. Now it’s biodegradable food waste to make methane.”
Sabrina Raithby, 38, works at the Co-op and lives in Netherfield. She said the smells have been around for 30 or 40 years.
“It gets worse over the summer more than anything else,” she said.
“It’s not a nice smell. I don’t know
If you’re blind you would be able to find your way to Netherfield just by the smell
Frederick Todd
if there’s any regulations they can put in place.
“The smell is more down the bottom end of the area.
“You can even smell it in Gedling.”
A resident of Kingsley Drive, Netherfield, who did not want to be named, said: “Not far away is the River Trent, and across the River Trent you’ve got a lot of farmland.
“At this time of year when the farmers have bought their crops in and taken the barley they turn the soil over and then they muck spread and fertilise the soil.
“And what happens is if the wind is coming from that direction it blows the smell over the river to this area.
“It only lasts a couple of weeks.” A Gedling Borough Council spokesperson said: “We have received some complaints about odours in the Netherfield and Stoke Bardolph area.
“We have contacted the Environment Agency, who are the regulators of the sewage plant in the area, and our environmental health team have also visited the area to check levels and make further investigations. We will continue to monitor the situation and work with the Environment Agency to ensure that businesses are complying with their permitted production.”