Notice

OL13 9XA, The Bacup Clay Company Limited: environmental permit application advertisement - EPR/EB3307HK/V003

Published 19 September 2023

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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 The Bacup Clay Company Limited.

Application number

EPR/EB3307HK/V003

Regulated facility type

This application is a substantial variation to a Deposit for Recovery permit that is already in place to restore Tong Quarry. The substantial variation proposes to extend the area including the North area of the quarry void, to add additional waste codes and increase the permitted tonnage to 1,800,000 tonnes to incorporate the new restoration scheme including the extended quarry void.

Regulated facility address

Tong Quarry
Tong Lane
Bacup
OL13 9XA

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 October 2023.

You can comment:

Online: view and comment on the application using Citizen Space

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

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