PLANS for a second waste Incinerator near Bicester will be decided next month.

Waste Recycling Group wants to build a burner at Calvert, which would mean an extra 84 lorry trips around Bicester every day.

Campaigners said the proposal would make Bicester “the filling in an Incinerator sandwich” after plans for a burner at Ardley were approved last year.

The Calvert site is nine miles from Bicester and the Ardley incinerator almost five miles from the town. Each will take 300,000 tonnes of waste a year.

Lorries carrying waste from High Wycombe would travel along the M40 to junction nine and then east of Bicester to the site at Greatmoor Farm.

Campaigners are expected to be out in force when Buckinghamshire County Council’s development control committee meets at its Aylesbury offices, on Tuesday, February 14.

Bicester Town Council and parish councils in the area, including Marsh Gibbon, lodged objections over concerns about the environment, increased traffic and demand.

Anti-incinerator campaigner Jon O’Neill, chairman of former protest group Ardley Against the Incinerator, questioned whether there was enough waste to fuel “these technological dinosaurs”.

Richard Mould, chairman of planning at Bicester Town Council, said: “We don’t think it’s necessary, given there’s one planned for Ardley and another 600,000-tonne capacity incinerator has been given approval between Milton Keynes and Bedford.

“The other issue for us is they are planning to move most of the waste by road.”

A Buckinghamshire County Council spokesman said its cabinet decided in 2007 incineration was the best way to deal with waste as an alternative to landfill.

WRG bid director Dan Murphy said the incinerator would save the county about £100m during the term of the contract, and generate electricity.

He said: “At every stage of the process we have actively sought to listen to and work with residents and community groups.”