The application was made through Grundon company Lakeside Energy from Waste Ltd, which is developing the site at Colnbrook. A separate application has also gone in for an existing clinical waste incinerator on the same site.
Grundon has been running waste facilities in Colnbrook for 22 years. These include a 40,000 tonnes per annum materials recycling facility (MRF), a clinical waste incinerator, a high density baling plan and a vehicle workshop. The company already has planning permission for the new EfW plant and a new 40,000 tonne MRF. This will replace the current MRF when it is displaced by the EfW plant.
Residues
Managing director of Grundon and Lakeside Richard Skehens said: “The EfW component of the plant will burn primarily the residues from source segregated domestic waste. These residues will be supplied through long term contracts with local authorities or third party waste collection companies, which themselves have long term collection, recovery and disposal contracts with local authorities.”
The Colnbrook MRF currently takes commercial, trade and domestic waste. It is used by companies such as British Airways and British Telecom as well as Elmbridge Borough Council, the London Borough of Hillingdon and Slough Council, which is a unitary authority.
Names
However, the names of organisations planning to use the EfW plant were confidential and waste that currently goes to the MRF would not be diverted into the EfW facility, a spokeswoman for Grundon said. She stressed that the companies and councils using the current facilities would not necessarily use the EfW plant. “You cannot make the assumption that because they are using the existing facilities, they will use the new ones,” she said.
Under the plans, the 12-year old Colnbrook clinical waste incinerator will be replaced and updated. Rather than running at one tonne per hour, it will now process 1.25 tonnes per hour. And although steam from the clinical waste incinerator will be used to improve energy efficiencies it the EfW facility, it will operate independently of the EfW plant.
The company hopes that the new facility, which will cost over 100 million in total, will be up and running by early 2006.
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