On behalf of our client, FM Conway Limited, PDE submitted a planning application for the installation and operation of an asphalt plant, concrete batching plant and gully waste plant on land at North Quay Road in Newhaven. This application was submitted to East Sussex County Council, and we would like to congratulate our client FM Conway Limited on receiving confirmation of the validation of this application on 20 June 2017.

Should this application be successful, it is envisaged that there shall be 125,000 tpa of asphalt, 20,000m3 of concrete and 20,000 tpa of recycled aggregates exported from the Site per annum. These products will greatly aid in supporting East Sussex County Council and other local businesses in the coming years.

The Environment Agency has issued a new bespoke environmental permit to S Walsh and Son Ltd for a site near Queenborough in Kent.

The waste operation comprises the importation and permanent deposit of 200,000m³ of waste on land for the purpose of raising ground levels out of the flood plain to create a development platform. Wastes are to be used in place of primary aggregates.

On behalf of our client, Breedon Southern Limited, PDE submitted a full planning application to Buckinghamshire County Council for the importation, storage and onward distribution of rail borne aggregates together with the erection and use of a concrete batching plant and associated infrastructure at their site on Thorney Mill Road.

This application was submitted on 15 March 2017 and, we are happy to announce, validated on 17 May 2017 by Buckinghamshire County Council.

The Environment Agency have granted a permit variation to WCL Quarries Limited for their waste operation at Griff Quarry in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. WCL are now permitted to accept street cleaning residues which will be stored at Griff Quarry only prior to being transferred off site for recovery.

PDE have obtained three permits for Anglian Land Drainage for their site located in Great Dunmow, Essex.

The waste operation permit, issued by the Environment Agency, allows for waste storage and the physical treatment of waste consisting of sorting/ separation, screening, washing, crushing, blending and drying for recovery as a soil, soil substitute or aggregate.

Uttlesford District Council have issued two LAPPC Part B permits for cement storage and for the operation of a mobile crusher.

The Environment Agency (EA) has duly made an application for a new environmental permit to allow S Walsh and Son Ltd to operate a waste recovery operation at a site near Queenborough, Sheerness in Kent. The project involves the importation of some 200,000m³ of inert wastes to create a development platform.

A planning application was submitted on the 10 February 2017 for the construction of a fire protection lagoon and the restoration of part of an existing bund. This application was validated on the 15 February 2017 and we are happy to announce that planning permission was issued shortly after on the 11 April 2017.

The grant of planning permission ensures that measures can now be put in place to ensure the continued safety, and compliance of the site with environmental permitting requirements.

On the 31 of March 2017, Eurovia Infrastructure were successfully granted planning permission by Thurrock County Council for the erection and operation of a bitumen product plant on land south of Burnley Road West.

It is proposed that approximately 40,000 tonnes of raw bitumen shall be imported to the site per year and manufactured into a useable product.

We at PDE are pleased to announce that Aggmax Transport has been granted full planning permission for use of their site at Wymondham as an aggregate and waste storage and distribution depot, with the installation of a cement silo.

We look forward to continuing to work with Aggmax Transport Limited and wish them every success in the future.

Suffolk County Council has recently granted three planning permissions for a number of developments at Folly Farm, Tattingstone.

The planning permissions allow Shotley Holdings Limited to continue their permitted activities at the site until 31 October 2029, they also allow an increase to the permitted operating hours.

The permissions have also allowed for the installation and operation of a soils washing plant for the recycling of inert waste at the site. The use of the soils washing plant will allow Shotley Holdings Limited to maximise the amount of the incoming waste stream which can be recycled and ultimately reused and in doing so push waste further up the waste hierarchy in accordance with recognised Government objectives, reducing the need for landfill, while ensuring the sustainable management of silt.