Postcards depicting what the view from a village will be like if an £100m incinerator gets the go-ahead have been distributed around Bucknell, near Bicester.

Residents are being urged to have their say before public consultation over the proposal by waste firm Viridor for nearby Ardley Fields closes on Friday.

Parish councillor John Kightley said: “The parish council thought that it was appropriate that the parishioners should see what Viridor’s computer-generated image of the incinerator will look like.

“This image is a potential view taken from the railway bridge on the Middleton road out of Bucknell.”

Mr Kightley said the chimney would be 82m high and he believed it would “scar the countryside.”

The parish council claims the proposal is against planning rules, will create extra traffic and poses a pollution risk.

Earlier this month, Cherwell District Council warned it was prepared to take the matter to the High Court if Oxfordshire County Council gave the go ahead to the Ardley Fields site.

County councillors will make a decison on the Ardley plan, and a rival scheme at Sutton Courtenay, later this year.