POLITICIANS and community groups have joined forces to block plans for a waste incinerator outside Plymouth.

Opponents of the New England Quarry incinerator proposal are meeting on Saturday to plot the next step of their campaign.

A public meeting will hear how local people can object to a planning application by the waste firm Viridor.

South West Devon MP Gary Streeter urged local people to attend the meeting at Ivybridge Community College at 2.30pm on Saturday.

Mr Streeter has been working with his Labour Party rival Luke Pollard to fight the Viridor plan.

Mr Pollard, Labour's candidate in South West Devon at the next General Election, said: "We have taken the original community campaign and turned it into a cross-party campaign."

The group, calling itself, CAVIL (Campaign Against Viridor's Incinerator and Landfill) has until April 19 to muster as much opposition as it can to the incinerator.

Mr Streeter said it was important that as many people as possible contacted Devon County Council and set out planning reasons why the application should not proceed.

"Many people have commented how refreshing it is to see political opponents working together," Mr Streeter said.

"We will continue to do this on behalf of the community up to and beyond the General Election."

Viridor is bidding to build a £100million incinerator to handle domestic waste from Plymouth, Torbay and South Devon.

Two other sites – at Devonport North Yard and Ernesettle – are still in the running to be chosen for the plant.

Viridor has said it will go ahead with the New England Quarry site even if it is not chosen by the Plymouth, Torbay and Devon County Council partnership.