Local campaigners oppose the landfill site

The row centres on the Hafod Quarry site in Johnstown.

Residents said the smell, traffic and noise will be a problem and have taken the fight to London's High Court.

But Mersey Waste Holdings said it would run the site to the highest possible standards and the development would create up to 10 jobs.

A Welsh Assembly Government inspector has given permission for the company to dump around 250,000 tonnes of rubbish there each year.

Waste would be dumped from November, and continue for the next 25 years.

You are not going to be able to sell your house, even if you own it. Ruth Thomas

Mersey Waste said the waste would mainly come from Wirral borough but also from Wrexham and possibly Shropshire.

The assembly government has refused to comment on the legal fight.

Ruth Thomas, who said the view from her house would be totally changed, has been granted legal aid to appeal the assembly government's decision.

She said Wrexham Council rejected the landfill application in April and that should stand.

"We launched the appeal in the High Court because we didn't agree with the way the appeal was handled," she said.

"They [the assembly government] didn't have an environmental impact study done and we think they should have done."

Noise

She added that great crested newts in the quarry would be in more danger.

Work at Hafod quarry has already started, and Ms Thomas said it was already having an impact.

"The noise of the lorries doing the work they have been doing is unbelievable. You are not going to be able to sell your house, even if you own it."