WF11 8DX, Blue Phoenix Limited: environmental permit application advertisement – EPR/QP3034JW/V006
Published 22 May 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 Blue Phoenix Limited.
Application number
EPR/QP3034JW/V006
Regulated facility type
1.16.2.4 IBA processing facility at Ferrybridge, West Yorkshire. An Environmental Permit for the operation of the facility was originally granted on 17 September 2018. Within this application, Blue Phoenix is applying for the following changes: An increase of the capacity of the Facility from the permitted 320,000 tonnes per annum to 420,000 tonnes per annum. Extension to the processing building to allow for more processing equipment to facilitate the proposed increase in processing capacity, resulting in an improvement in quality of the IBAA product. To move the water storage tanks and some of the IBA processing storage bays to accommodate the extension of the processing building. This will result in a slight decrease in storage capacity of the IBA on this site.
Regulated facility address
Kirkhall Lane
Knottingley
West Yorkshire
WF11 8DX
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 20 June 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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