Cr Jeff Whitton put forward a plan to build the plant in Orange to improve road quality in the city at a council meeting last November.

Council agreed to ask staff for a business plan on the plant.

However, Cr Whitton said nothing had come of it.

He said the council supported his proposal to look into a plant in Orange to replace the current situation where the hot mix was bought from Bathurst.

“I imagine it’s something the staff are not keen to do, not the report, but having a hot mix facility here in Orange,” he said.

Cr Whitton said staff had suggested it would cost more than $10 million.

“It’s substantial, the cost to council, but the long-term payback would be less maintenance,” he said.

“It certainly gives them a quarter of the time to repair [roads], the maintenance is a lot less and you have the ability to on-sell the hot mix elsewhere.”

Cr Whitton said roads made from hot mix around Orange lasted longer.

He said he had submitted a notice of motion ahead of the next council meeting asking why council had not received the report.

He said after he proposed the hot mix plant in the campaign leading to the September 9 council election last year there had been support from the community.

A poll of Central Western Daily readers found 83 per cent were in favour of having a plant in Orange.