Angry villagers will form a convoy of cars as they escort a lorry around their homes in protest at plans for a landfill site.

The vehicle, the same size as a waste lorry, will be driven on country roads around the Freshfield Lane Brickworks, near Horsted Keynes.

Members of the Freshfield Action Group (FAG), will borrow the six-wheeled articulated lorry in an effort to show what could happen to the area if the brickworks were turned into a non-inert landfill site.

FAG member Elaine Seear said: "The lorry will be driven around the area to show people how big the vehicles would be on our narrow country roads.

"People need to see the size of these lorries, which would have a terrible effect on the area. We want to encourage them to write letters of objection to the landfill site before it's too late."

The protest will take place on Saturday morning, less than two weeks before the deadline for objections.

The lorry will make its way to villages such as Horsted Keynes and Danehill, with protesters following it in their cars.

They will stop in villages to talk to people about the proposal, which is part of West Sussex County Council's Waste Local Plan.

The brickworks is one of five sites for waste disposal being considered by the county council.

Others are the Newtimber Chalkpit at Pyecombe, the Keymer Tileworks at Burgess Hill, the former sewage treatment works at Burgess Hill and a site at Imberhorne Lane, East Grinstead.

Protesters say the Freshfield Lane site is unsuitable because access roads are too narrow for the waste vehicles, prompting safety fears.

FAG members claimed a small victory on Monday when Mid Sussex District Council recommended the proposal to turn the brickworks into a landfill site be scrapped.

Cabinet members agreed access to the site was inadequate.

It recommended the existing sewage treatment works at Goddards Green be added to the list of possible sites.

The Freshfield Lane site has been one of the most controversial in the county council's Waste Local Plan. The council received 1,408 letters of objection when it first announced it in 2001.

The deadline for comments under this consultation is June 26.