A waste plant on the grain silo site near Kidlington is hardly likely to scar the landscape, even though it would be in the Green Belt.

The silo is an eyesore, and is surrounded by the A34, a railway line, a railway siding where aggregates are unloaded and the Water Eaton park-and-ride.

By no stretch of the imagination could it be regarded as the best part of the Oxfordshire countryside.

If the number of lorry movements in and out of the site is seen as a concern, why not use the railway siding to deliver the waste?