A Walleys Quarry spokesperson has previously said the landfill site held an environmental permit and was stringently regulated by the EA to ensure its activities did not cause harm to human health or the environment.
“We recognise the impact that odours can have for local residents, and the team is focused on managing the site to minimise impacts to the community around the site and we will continue to do so.”
Last month, the council said legal action against the operators of the landfill site was expected to begin by the end of October.
In the summer, the EA told an inquiry held by the council it was keeping “all regulatory options on the table”.
Andrew Hitchings, from the agency, said in August a closure notice was a “last resort and when you’ve exhausted every other opportunity”.
He added: “Once landfills are there, there is a very complex process in order to move them to the point of closure.”
Complaints about the site date back more than a decade, when it was run by a previous operator, but the EA received more than 2,000 in one weekend in 2021.
More recently, the watchdog apologised after it emerged some data covering gas emissions at the site, among others in England, had been under-reported, due to wrongly calibrated equipment.
