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The legal fight to stop York1 Environmental from using a former Dresden landfill as a large construction and soil recycling centre and landfill is headed to court Sept. 21.

The company filed a motion in Chatham court saying it shouldn’t need any municipal approvals to move ahead with the project without further municipal zoning approvals.

It has been two years since the company first talked publicly about its plans to bring up to 700 trucks a day to the Irish School Road Site near the Lambton border and build a 20-acre landfill on the site. While there was a dump on the site, it covered a fraction of the 80-acre property.

Chatham-Kent officials cite a letter from the Ministry of the Environment which says the municipality does have authority over zoning issues.

Originally, the two parties were to meet in court March 3. But Emily Crawford, director of legal services in Chatham-Kent said the municipality’s lawyers asked for extra time leading up to a scheduling conference March 17.

“York1 has provided, I think, something like 2,000 pages of documents in support of their application. They were only received the Friday before that Tuesday hearing date,” Crawford said adding the lawyers asked for more time wanting to “come up with a game plan for what our response might look like and how much time we might need.”

At the March 17 court appearance both sides agreed only one day would be needed for the hearing.