The new centre at Hornsey Street is to replace operations at an existing waste transfer site at Ashburton Grove, where Arsenal intends to build a new 60,000-seat stadium.
North London Waste Authority, the London borough of Islington and the council's waste contractor ICSL Accord will all have operations at the new three-floor plant. Facilities on-site will include a public access recycling centre, bulk recycling facilities, a waste compaction and transfer plant, garages and workshops.
Operations of the three organisations are expected to relocate from Ashburton Grove to Hornsey Street in early August 2004. When the site opens, it will handle around 1,100 tonnes a day of domestic and commercial waste.
The main contractor on the project is Sir Robert McAlpine, which is also building the new Arsenal stadium, and the external works contractor is McNicholas.
Other companies involved in the major project include mechanical services designer AYH which is using fire resistant ductwork from Senior Hargreaves to meet building regulations on ventilation. To meet the deadline of construction on the site, a special assembly lift designed by Senior Hargreaves has enabled the contractors to install the double-skin ducts at an increased speed of up to 12 metres a day.
The Hornsey Street site is next to the East Coast Main Railway line and North London Waste Authority is hoping to use this in future to transport waste.
The preferred option in the NLWA's draft waste strategy, which is undergoing a consultation process, is to convert all seven North London boroughs to co-mingled kerbside collections to be sorted at three materials recycling facilities to each process 100,000 tonnes a year (see letsrecycle.com story). The NLWA has said that existing waste bulking and transfer operations, as well as the rail connections at Hornsey Street, makes it an attractive site for one of these proposed MRFs.
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