Notice

BA13 4WE, Northacre Renewable Energy Limited: environmental permit application advertisement - EPR/CP3803LV/A001

Published 27 November 2020

This notice was withdrawn on 19 March 2021

The consultation period for this application has ended. You can view current licences on the Public Registers.

Applies to England

Details of the application

The Environment Agency has received a new bespoke application for an environmental permit under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 from Northacre Renewable Energy Limited.

The application contains a description of how the proposed facility may affect:

• the installation
• the materials, substances and energy it will use and generate
• the conditions of its site
• the source, nature and quantity of its foreseeable emissions and their significant effects on the environment
• the proposed techniques for preventing, reducing, and monitoring its emissions and preventing and recovering waste
• and an outline of the main alternatives, if any, considered

Application number

EPR/CP3803LV/A001

Regulated facility type

5.1 A(1) (b) The incineration of non-hazardous waste in a waste incineration plant with a capacity exceeding 3 tonnes per hour.

The plant will use a process called incineration. This burns waste at high temperatures to generate electricity. Government policy currently considers it to be a renewable source of electricity as it uses waste that would otherwise go to landfill. It is a ‘tried and tested’ technology, in use in 47 sites across England in 2019. The application for the new facility states that it will burn 243 000 tonnes per year of residual waste fuel, which will be used to generate over 200,000MWh/year, enough to meet the average annual domestic power requirements of just over 48,000 homes. Electricity will be transferred to the National Grid as well as supplying the on-site power demand.

Regulated facility address

Northacre Incinerator Facility
Northacre Industrial Estate
Stephenson Road
Westbury
BA13 4WE

How to view and comment on the application

This consultation is your chance to have your say on the application documents. We will consider your comments as we determine the permit application. If we decide to grant the permit, we must decide what conditions to include in the permit and we will run a further public consultation if we reach this stage. We are following Government advice to manage the risks of Coronavirus to our organisation, to protect the health, safety and wellbeing of our staff and sustain our critical operations.

We would encourage you to view documents online if you are able to because of the changing Coronavirus restrictions.

Online: view and comment on the application using Citizen Space

Via email: pscpublicresponse@environment-agency.gov.uk

If you have any comments on the application send these by 22nd January 2021.

We will then review all the comments received before making our final decision on whether or not to grant an environmental permit. We will write to you again to inform you when the consultation closes, and again to inform you of our decision. If we decide to refuse the permit, Northacre Renewable Energy Ltd have the right to appeal this decision

We will normally put any comments we receive on the public register. This includes your name but not your personal contact details. Please tell us if you do not want your response to be public.

The proposals which are the subject of this application were also separately the subject of an environmental impact assessment under the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999, and you can get further information on this from National Infrastructure Planning.