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Notice

LS15 9AD, Biffa Waste Services Limited: environmental permit application advertisement - EPR/BJ9339IF/V019

Published 20 October 2020

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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 Biffa Waste Services Limited.

Application number

EPR/BJ9339IF/V019

Regulated facility type

Variation to Soil Treatment Facility a regulated facility permitted under 5.3 Part (A)(1)(a)(vi) Recycling/reclamation of inorganic materials other than metals and metal compounds; Section 5.3 Part A(1)(a)(i) biological treatment of hazardous waste; and 5.4 Part (A)(1)(b)(i) biological treatment of non-hazardous waste. The variation proposes to increase the annual throughput of the waste treated at the Soil Treatment Facility by 20,000 tonnes per annum. The total throughput of the Soil Treatment Facility would be increased to 50,000 tonnes per annum.

Regulated facility address

Skelton Grange Landfill Site and Soil Treatment Facility
Skelton Grange
Newsam Green
Leeds
LS15 9AD

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 17 November 2020.

You can comment:

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Online: view and comment on the application using Citizen Space

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

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