M29 7EW, Astley Sand & Aggregates Limited: environmental permit application advertisement - EPR/LP3597SR/V008
Published 24 September 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 Astley Sand & Aggregates Limited.
Application number
EPR/LP3597SR/V008
Regulated facility type
The permit allows two separate activities; Inert landfill and a Standard Rules permit SR2010No12 (superseded now SR2022 No.1) for the treatment of waste to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate. The operator would like to vary the SR activity to a bespoke activity to increase the treatment and storage capacity as follows:
- Increase the annual throughput from 75,000 tonnes to 300,000 tonnes per year
- Increase the storage capacity from 40,000 tonnes to 60,000 tonnes
There are no proposed changes to the treatment activities or the permit boundary. There are no proposed changes to the inert landfill activity.
Regulated facility address
Morleys Quarry
Morleys Hall
Manchester
M29 7EW
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 22 October 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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