Environment / Canterbury Region

Bromley residents plead for solution to putrid stink

09:05 am on 27 April 2022

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Frustrated residents of the Christchurch suburb of Bromley say they're dismayed by the prospect of another six years living with the stench of a local composting plant.

Christchurch City Councillors will consider a report recommending moving the city's organics processing plant at a meeting tomorrow. 

Stuff is reporting that could take up to six years. 

Residents of Bromley have been pleading with the council for years to do something about the smell from the plant, which turns green waste into compost.

Meanwhile a waste water plant damaged by fire last November in Bromley has been causing a smell described as rotten, pungent and very unpleasant.

Kathryn speaks with Yani Johanson, a councillor for Linwood Ward and Ruth Sarson, from Environment Canterbury.