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L36 6JF, FCC Recycling (UK) Limited: environmental permit application re-advertisement - EPR/JB3633RP/V006

Published 20 November 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 FCC Recycling (UK) Limited.

Application number

EPR/JB3633RP/V006

Regulated facility type

The Site is situated 620m north-northwest of Junction 6 of the M62, approximately 2.5km to the southwest of Prescot. The River Mersey is located over 7.2km to the southeast at its closest point and leads to the Mersey Estuary over 15km to the west. National Grid Reference of the centre of the site is SJ 45870 90085.

This variation application is to accept up to 120,000 tonnes per annum of Mixed Dry Recyclables (MDR), residual Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) and other wastes from household, commercial and industrial sources for bulking up within concrete bays in the building prior to transferring off-site for further recovery and/or recycling. All delivery, handling, storing and loading of wastes into vehicles will be undertaken within the building.

Regulated facility address

Arpley 2 Waste Transfer Station
Stretton Way
Huyton
L36 6JF

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 18 December 2025.

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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