Campaigners who have spent a year fighting plans for a rubbish dump on their doorsteps will have to start their battle all over again.

Dump The Dump was set up last year to fight plans by waste contractor Onyx to build a multi-million pound materials recovery facility and waste transfer site.

Onyx, now Veolia Environmental Services, wants to build the facility in Hollingdean Lane, Brighton, next to the dustcart depot.

When the planning application was lodged in January 2005, campaigners wrote thousands of letters of objection to the proposal and held a number of rallies and public meetings to fight the plan.

Veolia, which has a 25-year council contract to deal with refuse, has now made alterations to the waste transfer site plans and submitted a new planning application to the council.

The full details of changes to the application will be revealed in the next few days. The submission of a new application means objectors will have to make fresh representations about the plans for them to be considered by the planning committee.

A spokesman for Dump The Dump said residents will have to respond to the new application within 21 days with new letters of objection and petitions: "We understand how timeconsuming and irritating this is but if we do not follow the correct objection procedure then the dump will happen."