 More than 1,200 people live in Poundbury |
More than 500 people have signed a petition to stop a recycling centre being built in the Prince of Wales' model village in Dorset. Members of SCRAP - Stop Council Rubbish at Poundbury - are worried about the dirt, smell and noise it would cause.
They said they will fight "tooth and nail" to stop the proposal.
West Dorset District Council said no decision has been made on whether a recycling plant will be built at Poundbury, or anywhere near Dorchester.
Fran Leaper, leading the SCRAP campaign, said Poundbury is the wrong place for the centre.
He told the BBC: "This will attract vermin, dust, litter and smell - particularly in the summer when people want to sit outside.
"It's absolutely the wrong site. Then there's traffic, there's a new parkway there and we believe there will be queues backing onto the parkway. We think it's totally the wrong place."
Poundbury was conceived by the Prince to inspire town planning and design and built on land owned by the Duchy of Cornwall.
It is an urban expansion of nearby Dorchester and represents Charles's vision of a sustainable and inclusive community.
A six-week public consultation period on the draft development brief, which includes the recycling centre proposal for Poundbury, ends on Friday.
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