When you're choosing a place to live you have to take a lot into account - the location, the views, crime rates, schools - the list goes on. So buying or renting a property next to a sewage treatment plant and animal rendering factory may not make it to the top of your list.
But residents living next to the two facilities off Stoke Lane in Stoke Bardolph say they are very rarely affected by what's on their doorsteps. Chris Rickett, 71, said: "I'm used to it, I've been here 30 years and they were here before I was. It's not a big deal, we don't have any problems with it.
"We used to get smells from it at one time but they have altered the plant and we very rarely have any problems with it nowadays." Chris feels that as the plant "was there first" then it's "fine" as they knew what to expect.
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Estate agent and mum Natalie Knowles, 37, stated there were a couple of issues when she moved in, but nothing serious. She explained: "I've lived locally in Stoke Bardolph and Burton Joyce all my life.
"We don't tend to be affected by smells or anything." Natalie added that if there was a smell from the sites, it was only "on occasion" and not a regular thing."
Regarding the view from her home, she stated: "I don't tend to look that way as our bedroom is on the other side of the house. It doesn't really affect us because we have nothing behind us but open fields and the river."
Sales worker, Michael Terry, 54, also isn't affected by the sites. He said: "We bought the house knowing the view was there and knowing that there would occasionally be a smell from both of those factories.
"Quite a few trees have been planted recently to protect the view. I'm from Gedling originally so behind all them (gesturing to the industrial buildings) and see them now as much as I did them."
He explained that although he lives directly opposite the site he is no more affected "than anyone else around the area" and doesn't have an issue except on a rare day where the wind is "in the wrong direction."
A resident in his 60s who did not wish to be named added: "I'm not really affected by it. It doesn't block my view and I don't smell anything so it doesn't bother me really."
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