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Notice

BS11 0YS, Wessex Water Services Limited: environmental permit application advertisement - EPR/PP3734LK/C015

Published 15 December 2025

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Details of the application

The Environment Agency has received an application to vary an environmental permit under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 involving substantial change to a permit from Wessex Water Services Limited.

Application number

EPR/PP3734LK/C015

Regulated facility type

This substantial variation is to add the following Schedule 1 listed activity under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016: S5.4 A(1)(b)(i) Recovery or a mix of recovery and disposal of non-hazardous waste with a capacity exceeding 75 tonnes per day (or 100 tonnes per day if the only waste treatment activity is anaerobic digestion) involving biological treatment.

The activity involves the biological treatment of sludge by anaerobic digestion. The facility is currently permitted as IED bespoke permit for the a Food Waste AD, which is undergoing a permit review for Biowaste. In addition to the above activity the application seeks to add two waste operations for physical treatment - Raw Sludge Dewatering

Regulated facility address

Avonmouth CHP
Sludge Drying & Food Waste Treatment Facility
Kings Weston Lane
Bristol
BS11 0YS

The application contains a description of how the proposed change(s) 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

How to view and comment on the application

If you have any comments on the application send these by 15 January 2026.

You can comment:

Online: view and comment on the application using Citizen Space

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

For advice about how to make a representation or if you are unable to make a representation via e-mail, please call 03708 506 506.

The Environment Agency will normally put any comments it receives 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.

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