A ward councillor has raged at Liverpool Council's plans to store broken up sections of the Churchill Way Flyovers in a site on the edge of the city.
Councillor Peter Mitchell, who was suspended from the Labour Party earlier this month amid a sexual harassment allegation, protested the council's application to store sections of the flyover, which is currently being deconstructed in the city centre, on industrial land close to the East Lancs Road.
The council's application to store the sections on the site was heard by Liverpool's planning committee this morning.
Pieces of the flyover have already been taken to the council-owned plot, which is in Fazakerley ward but close to the border with councillor Mitchell's Croxteth ward.
He said he had already received 26 complaints about noise linked to the removal of the flyovers from people living in nearby Gillmoss.
Councillor Mitchell said: "Why is it necessary to move this monstrous carbuncle from the city centre and dump it in Gillmoss.?
"We need to have a proper and meaningful discussion about how we are going to crush thousands of tonnes of concrete in my community."
He said he wanted more detail on what would happen to the pieces of the flyover and how they would be destroyed.
And while members of the planning committee agreed today to grant the council planning permission to store the flyover there, the council will have to apply for new permission if it were to proceed with crushing the flyover sections on-site.
A separate condition was also added to ensure the site is secure after councillor Mitchell said he had been sent pictures of kids in the site.
Responding to a question about why sections of the flyover had already been moved to the site before permission was granted, a planning officer confirmed that this was allowed for up to 28 days without planning permission, so no breach of planning conditions had taken place.
