Viridor is currently vying with the Waste and Recycling Group for Oxfordshire's 25 year residual waste treatement contract, in a deal which could see an incinerator facility costing up to £100 million developed to deal with the county's waste (see letsrecycle.com story) .
The proposal for the site, which is situated quite close to the M40 motorway, also includes plans to improve the existing household waste and recycling centre and further Oxfordshire resident's access to recycling and disposal facilities.
Consultation
Viridor, which was invited to submit a detailed, long term solution to Oxfordshire's residual waste treatment in February, has been holding public and stakeholder consultations since September over its proposal (see letsrecycle.com story).
Robert Ryan, Viridor's project manager, said: “The submission of our planning application follows a period of thorough public consultation. Since the start of September we have held stakeholder briefings and a two day public exhibition. We have analysed the comments received from the local community and fed the information into our proposal.”
The company claims to have taken information from the public consultations into account and already amended the proposal to match suggestions made about the height of the facility and access.
Mr Ryan said: “We delayed our submission in order to reduce the height of the EfW building by two metres. Not only will this further reduce the visual impact of the building, it will also reduce traffic during the construction phase, when compared with pre-consultation design, because less material will be needed.”
“Another key proposal of our proposals is a new access road into the Ardley site to serve both the EfW facility and continuing landfill operations. The road will link the site to the b430 via new priority T Junction,” he added.
The company – which is hopeful of having the facility operational by 2012 – understands that a decision will be made by Oxfordshire council in Spring 2009.
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