DOZENS of Lake Gardens residents have voiced their opposition to a proposed industrial recycling plant planned for the suburb.Almost 70 objections to the plant have been delivered to Ballarat City Council, which is due to make a decision on the permit application next week.Resident spokesman Sasha Vidovic said the residents did not feel the proposed site was appropriate."We are not against a recycling centre, we support it fully," he said."But we just believe it should be put somewhere else, somewhere not so close to residential areas."A permit application lodged with council shows the plant would be built in Gregory Street West in Wendouree, to the north-west of the Lake Gardens housing estate.The plant would recycle building and green waste including bricks, concrete rocks, metal, steel, timber, tree branches and grass clippings.Forty households near the proposed plant were notified of the plans by council but Mr Vidovic said more people should have been told."Our worry was that council only contacted 40 residents so we printed 600 copies and distributed them across the residential area," he said.The information distributed by Mr Vidovic's group encourages residents to lodge an objection to the plans, with an attached document listing reasons.Noise, safety of children, smells, increased levels of dust and potentially toxic material, vermin and traffic are amongst the concerns listed.Mr Vidovic also said the site was inappropriate because it was too close to the new Wendouree train station, Ballarat Golf Club, a caravan park and other residential estates.City chief executive officer Anthony Schinck said the advertisement of the application had attracted a range of submissions and objections."We will now assess those and that will form part of our consideration of the application," he said.