LE14 3PR, Foyle Food Group Limited: environmental permit application advertisement - EPR/JP3025LZ/A001
Published 14 May 2025
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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 Foyle Food Group Limited.
Application number
EPR/JP3025LZ/A001
Regulated facility type
Application is for a New Bespoke permit for an existing abattoir. Activities at the site include the slaughter of cattle and the dressing, chilling and quartering of beef carcasses, the harvesting of offal, cod fat and the packing of beef offal and cod fat into vacuum pouches and lined cardboard boxes. No effluent treatment occurs at the site. Effluent in stored in the Effluent Storage Sump and the Truck-Wash Sump, which are emptied daily by road tanker for further treatment off-site. All water is sourced from a mains supply, while the site contains a single hot water boiler. All waste is segregated on-site for removal to offsite waste facilities as appropriate. Air Emissions – the site has a single LPG fuelled boiler, located in the Boiler House, to supply hot water to the entire facility.
Regulated facility address
Six Hills Abattoir - Foyle Meats
Melton Road
Six Hills
Melton Mowbray
Leicestershire
LE14 3PR
The application includes:
- the completed application form
- a non-technical summary
- a summary of the management system
- an environmental risk assessment
- proposed operating techniques, including an assessment of best available techniques
- management plans to address any key risks
- modelling and monitoring of any significant emissions to air, land or water
- a report on the condition of the site
- raw material usage and measures for energy efficiency and avoiding waste production
How to view and comment on the application
If you have any comments on the application send these by 12 June 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.
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