Councillors look set to decide next month whether to approve plans to build a second incinerator near Bicester.

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.

Now the application will be decided at a two-day hearing by Buckinghamshire County Council’s development control committee on April 17 and 20, at Coach House, Green Park, Aston Clinton, near Aylesbury.

The planning application was due to be decided on February 14, but the committee decided to defer the decision.

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

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.

Buckinghamshire County Council spokesman Aidan Shutter said: “Two days have been programmed to adequately spread the workload for the committee and to ensure they have time to explore all the issues in full.”