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Nottingham Post
Nottingham Post
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Laycie Beck

Life on Nottinghamshire street that 'smells' when the weather gets warm

Nottinghamshire neighbours have shared what it's like to live close to a sewage treatment centre. At the end of Quibell's Lane in Newark you will find Crankley Point, which is one of the county's Severn Trent treatment centres.

A new pumping station and screening chamber was added to the site in as part of a £60m water and waste investment in the town. Whilst residents in the area cannot see the centre due to it being at the bottom of the lane and behind a barrier of trees, they explained they can still smell it.

Retail store manager, Joanna Proctor, 51, said: "Sometimes there's a bit of a smell in the summer. It depends on how hot it is and the weather.

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