Braintree: Waste plant changes withdrawn

12:00pm Thursday 30th August 2012 in News

The waste plant will deal with recycling and rubbish usually sent to landfill The waste plant will deal with recycling and rubbish usually sent to landfill

Plans to build a waste plant in phases has been withdrawn.
 

Gent Fairhead and Co had applied to build an incinerator and half a paper pulping plant at Rivenhall Airfield first.
 

The other half of the pulping plant and processing plants for food and green waste recycling would be built five years later.
 

The company applied to Essex County Council for a non-material amendment to the planning application already granted.
 

It has now been withdrawn.

Comments (3)

12:54pm Thu 30 Aug 12

artdecofan says...

I'm afraid I don't understand this article; have ALL the plans been withdrawn, or just the amendments to the plans? And I thought that the whole scheme had been scrapped due to the high levels of re-cycling that we, the public, now do?? Confusing, I think.....correct me if I'm wrong please.
I'm afraid I don't understand this article; have ALL the plans been withdrawn, or just the amendments to the plans? And I thought that the whole scheme had been scrapped due to the high levels of re-cycling that we, the public, now do?? Confusing, I think.....correct me if I'm wrong please. artdecofan

2:38pm Thu 30 Aug 12

sKorch says...

Hi artdecofan, this was debated on this forum on this link, http://www.braintree
andwithamtimes.co.uk
/news/braintree_with
am_news/9861559.Brai
ntree_district__Rene
wed_concerns_over_wa
ste_plant/

Looks like I lost :-0
Hi artdecofan, this was debated on this forum on this link, http://www.braintree andwithamtimes.co.uk /news/braintree_with am_news/9861559.Brai ntree_district__Rene wed_concerns_over_wa ste_plant/ Looks like I lost :-0 sKorch

11:20am Fri 31 Aug 12

James Abbott says...

Hello artdecofan

You said

"I'm afraid I don't understand this article; have ALL the plans been withdrawn, or just the amendments to the plans? And I thought that the whole scheme had been scrapped due to the high levels of re-cycling that we, the public, now do?? Confusing, I think.....correct me if I'm wrong please."


It is just the amendments to the plans that have been withdrawn. He still has consent to build the original plant.

Essex County Council are claiming that they do not need the incinerator now but we have an extensive file of correspondence and evidence built up over many years (mostly from FoI requests to ECC itself) suggesting the council had a strong interest in the site going ahead and that they would be directly involved in it.

Also, the Basildon waste plant that ECC only recently gave consent for was on the basis that one of two options for the output from that plant would be incinerator fuel - and Basildon and Rivenhall have long been linked in that regard - such as in the original ECC PFI bid.

So I agree its a bit confusing and unclear but that is entirely due to all the chopping and changing from both the applicant and the county council.

If finally the incinerator proposal is abandoned, that will be wonderful, but I don't think we are there yet.
Hello artdecofan You said "I'm afraid I don't understand this article; have ALL the plans been withdrawn, or just the amendments to the plans? And I thought that the whole scheme had been scrapped due to the high levels of re-cycling that we, the public, now do?? Confusing, I think.....correct me if I'm wrong please." It is just the amendments to the plans that have been withdrawn. He still has consent to build the original plant. Essex County Council are claiming that they do not need the incinerator now but we have an extensive file of correspondence and evidence built up over many years (mostly from FoI requests to ECC itself) suggesting the council had a strong interest in the site going ahead and that they would be directly involved in it. Also, the Basildon waste plant that ECC only recently gave consent for was on the basis that one of two options for the output from that plant would be incinerator fuel - and Basildon and Rivenhall have long been linked in that regard - such as in the original ECC PFI bid. So I agree its a bit confusing and unclear but that is entirely due to all the chopping and changing from both the applicant and the county council. If finally the incinerator proposal is abandoned, that will be wonderful, but I don't think we are there yet. James Abbott

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