This is a final call for our current funding round
James Cleverly, LWaRB
The call for bids, or expressions of interest, is the last call in its current funding round and is intended to help inform a pool of viable projects that the Board will look to use its £84 million in available funding to help develop.
In addition to the call for bidders to come forward, the London Waste and Recycling Board (LWaRB) has revealed how it intends to break down its funding and what projects it is looking to help develop in its Business Plan for 2010/11.
The Board would like to support: three materials recycling facilities; two anaerobic digestion facilities; one mechanical biological treatment plant and one thermal plant. The facilities would have a combined capacity of 850,000 tonnes-a-year.
James Cleverly, chair of LWaRB, said “This is a final call for our current funding round and if you have a proposal which is developed enough to be considered in the pool of around 20 project and fits within our desired project types we'd like to hear from you.”
“Within the bids that we have received to date, there are a number we feel confident we can support through our fund. But there is still scope for us to consider additional submissions to help create a wider range of waste infrastructure projects.”
Breakdown of funding
| Type |
Number of facilities |
Average capacity (tonnes) |
Total capacity delivered (tonnes) |
Total cost (£m) |
LWaRB funding (£m) |
| MRF |
3 |
150,000 |
450,000 |
60 |
12 |
| AD |
2 |
50,000 |
100,000 |
30 |
6 |
| Thermal |
1 |
150,000 |
150,000 |
80 |
7,273 |
| MBT |
1 |
150,000 |
150,000 |
30 |
2,727 |
| Total |
7 |
|
850,000 |
200 |
28 |
The Board – which was launched in September 2008 to help guide waste spending in the capital- has £84 million to issue to waste and recycling projects by 2012 but has, to date, only issued funding to a handful of projects.
Last month, the Board announced an intention to allocate £28 million in funding and to also draw up a shortlist of around 20 projects with the aim of helping bring at least seven into operation (see letsrecycle.com story).
Support for a thermal treatment facility would be in addition to the intention to support the proposed £80 million Biossence gasifier in East London (see letsrecycle.com story).
Allocation of funding by the Board has previously come under scrutiny from local authorities, who claimed that the Board's had too great a focus on partnership working (see letsrecycle.com story).
Businesses can submit their Expressions of Interest for funding for waste infrastructure projects by June 30 2010.
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