THE firm behind an illegal landfill in a Glasgow railway cutting is to apply for retrospective planning permission to carry out work it has already completed.

Clydeview Development was last month ordered to stop dumping at the site, in Haghill, after it was found to be carrying out major engineering works without consent to do so.

However, it has now agreed to apply for permission to fill in the cutting, at Appin Road, Haghill, after a temporary stop notice expires today.

A council spokesman said officials would deal with any retrospective application "once it is submitted".

He added: "Council officers met with company representative Jason Forster a few weeks ago, after which it was decided that a retrospective planning application for the unauthorised ground engineering work must be submitted.

"The council's planning team would require drawings, detailed planning information on issues such as infill materials, drainage impact and a timescale - including a programme of works - for restoration of the site."

Furious residents- who claim they have still to hear anything from local officials or the company about the work - have vowed to oppose planning permission.

Susan McGurk, of Appin Road, has seen a 30ft deep railway cutting at the end of her garden filled in with no notice and no permission.

She said: "Nobody has been in touch from the council and nobody has been in touch from the firm. Somebody should come down and tell us what is going on. We have no idea what has been dumped in that site. We will object to planning permission being granted - if anybody consults us."

It is not clear how much has been dumped in the cutting, once earmarked for a cycle path but now almost entirely filled in. Industry sources suggest it now contains tens of thousands of tonnes of rubble and earth from construction and demolition sites.

The council's temporary stop notice was served to a Jason Forster and to two companies both named as Clydeview Development Limited, one registered in the offshore haven of the Isle of Man and the other in Blantyre, Lanarkshire. The Scottish company, created in 2009, has never filed annual accounts. This summer an action to have it struck off the company registered was suspended.

The Lanarkshire company shared an address with a firm called Strathclyde Truck and Plant Ltd, which is now in liquidation. That company's director, James Gaffney, was previously a director of the Scottish-registered company Clydeview Development Limited.