The Project
The three planning applications are:
- Greatmoor Energy from Waste facility, which will divert waste from landfill, save Buckinghamshire over £100 million during the life of the contract, ensure the council meets its landfill diversion obligations and generate 22MW of electricity
- Two waste transfer stations, at Amersham and High Heavens, to receive waste from the surrounding areas for onward transporting to the energy-from-waste facility, reducing the overall number of vehicles and ‘waste miles’
Click on the links above to find out more about these planning applications.
In addition to the planning applications, WRG is submitting three applications to the Environment Agency to obtain Environmental Permits to operate the facilities. Further information can be found by clicking the links above.
More information:
1. Who are WRG?
3. What involvement does the local community have?
4. How is the project being funded?
Waste Recycling Group Limited (WRG), a leading UK waste management and energy recovery company, is part of FCC, the international environmental services, infrastructure and energy group.
WRG’s business focus is the delivery of integrated waste management solutions to meet national, regional and local needs for local authorities and commercial companies. The Company operates facilities for the reception, recycling, disposal and recovery of value from waste, and also manages a wide range of recycling sites on behalf of local authorities for use by the general public.
Following a lengthy and detailed procurement process, Buckinghamshire County Council has awarded Preferred Bidder status to WRG to build and run an Energy from Waste (EfW). WRG is now seeking planning permission to develop this facility which will reduce the environmental impact of waste being disposed of in landfill.
WRG has submitted a planning application for an EfW facility at Greatmoor to the south of the company’s existing Calvert Landfill Site and will make applications for two Waste Transfer Stations – in Amersham and High Heavens to reduce ‘waste miles’ and the traffic impacts of moving the waste.
3. What involvement does the local community have?
Buckinghamshire County Council and WRG have, and will continue to engage with Buckinghamshire residents on the proposals for a new sustainable waste management infrastructure. Importantly people have been able to make comment on:
- The County Council’s existing and emerging waste planning policies which have been through a series of public consultation stages.
- Draft proposals by WRG for an EfW facility at Greatmoor, which were the subject of an extensive public consultation exercise in 2010.
- WRG’s EfW planning application and the associated environmental impact assessment which were registered in February 2011. These have been the subject of further public consultation by WRG, as well as formal consultation by the County Planning Authority. Residents have had the opportunity to express their views to the Council through the statutory consultation phase and comments are now being evaluated by the Council and the applicants and, if this leads to formal modifications, there will be a further round of consultation. Local views will be taken into account by the Planning Officers in preparing their recommendations to the independent Development Control Committee.
- Draft proposals for the two Waste Transfer Stations in the south of the county, which will again be subject to formal consultation by the Planning Authority once the applications and accompanying environmental impact assessments have been submitted.
In preparing its planning applications, WRG has been fully committed to consulting with the local community and is maintaining open channels of communication throughout the planning applications process. A range of exhibitions, newsletters and public notices have enabled WRG to communicate the proposals to local residents, and WRG has obtained valuable feedback which has led to them making a number of changes to the plans.
4. How is the project being funded?
The project will be funded by borrowing, and WRG has engaged with a number of large banks who have sufficient funds to provide the necessary loans to support the project.
Sales of electricity to the National Grid will help to offset the cost of the new infrastructure and will reduce costs for the authority and its rate payers.
A Little Light – a new short film about the benefits of energy from waste
click the image to view the video on the main WRG site
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