SP7 8QD, Blackmore Vale Farm Cream Limited: environmental permit application advertisement - EPR/HP3492EZ/V004
Published 16 October 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 Blackmore Vale Farm Cream Limited.
Application number
EPR/HP3492EZ/V004
Regulated facility type
The site is a waste operation site since 2010. As part of a recent sector EA permit review, the operator has been advised that the have exceeded the maximum treatment capacity for an AD plant - the design capacity of the plant is 202T/day and daily inputs are in excess of 100T/day. This variation is to change the site operations from a waste operation to an Installation. In order to continue operating the plant in compliance at current levels the existing permit needs to be varied to an Installation permit. Other than changing the permit type, there are no other planned change to the operation of the plant. The installation comprises two storage tanks for incoming, pipe fed, liquid dairy wastes. These two waste types are blended and added to the main Anaerobic Digester. By-products of the digester consist of: bio-gas which is supplied to a 0.6MW (thermal) gas engine with the resultant electricity used by either the factory or supplied to the grid via Feed-in Tariff (FIT); digestate which is sent off-site for landspreading for agricultural benefit; and waste waters which are returned to the factory sewer connection and discharged to Wessex Water. The whole site is within a depression and is engineered to provide impermeable containment. All vessels are enclosed and connected by pipework to contain odours and bioaerosols. The bio-gas is extracted by a pump and either supplied to the engine or if this is unavailable, burned in a ground flare. Sampling of the engine exhaust is conducted annually to ensure emissions are within the permit limits.
Regulated facility address
B V Dairy
Wincombe Lane
Shaftesbury
SP7 8QD
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 13 November 2025.
You can comment:
Online: view and comment on the application using Citizen Space
Via email: pscpublicresponse@environment-agency.gov.uk
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