A REVISED plan to store millions of cubic metres of gas in an underground cavern near Louth is to be submitted to planners.
Wingas Storage Ltd applied to store up to 700 million cubic metres of gas below Louth Marsh at its site in Saltfleetby two years ago, as reported.
The firm is now submitting a revised scheme to Lincolnshire County Council with the aim of reducing traffic issues raised by residents living nearby.
Wingas spokeswoman Gill Lawrence said: "We held a couple of public exhibitions including with local communities affected.
"The revised plan is to drill into one store only, instead of two.
"By taking one out, this will also take out some of the traffic that had been of concern, particularly for people in Grimoldby."
The site is also being used to produce gas. The firm estimates that vehicle movements for the construction phase could be reduced by a third for the scaling down of the proposals.
Grimoldby Parish Council, while having no objection to the proposed storage scheme itself, objected to Tinkle Street being used by lorries for the construction phase.
The traffic management plan proposed would have seen 100 vehicle movements through Tinkle Street in the first three months – 50 loaded lorries arriving and 50 unloaded lorries returning.
Chairman of the parish council Councillor Terry Knowles, together with Councillor Fred Collins, attended a meeting at Westminster with Sir Peter Tapsell MP about the Wingas proposals.
Councillor Knowles said: "We have been on this case for a long time. Now they have decided to reduce the scheme to one well, they say it will reduce traffic on Tinkle Street by about 30 per cent which is good news, but we think this is still too much for our street.
"Tinkle Street gets worse every day – these are lorries considered too heavy for bridges.
"I still object if it is 70 lorries down from 100 a day. It only takes one lorry to knock a child off their bike.
"I know Tinkle Street better than most people, it has a great mix of people using it all day."