PDE are pleased to announce, on behalf of Bournewood Sand and Gravel Limited, that the Environment Agency (EA) have approved a Waste Recovery Plan for a site at Tilbury Point in Essex and in doing so have concluded that the importation of approximately 200,000m³ of inert and excavation wastes to construct a development platform constitutes a recovery operation.

In accordance with the latest draft of EA recovery guidance document RGN13 (May 2016) the EA requested evidence that the proposal would be financially viable if non wastes had to be used.

An application has now been submitted for a waste recovery permit.

On behalf of SRC Aggregates, PDE have submitted a Part B permit application to Tendring District Council for a concrete batching plant located at Ardleigh Reservoir, Crown Quarry, Essex. Environmental Protection Officer Andy Rutson-Edwards commented as follows on the submitted documentation:

“It’s the best application for a new permit I have had in the past 10 years”.

We are pleased to announce, on behalf of WCL Quarries Limited, that the Environment Agency (EA) have granted a permit variation for a waste operation at Cranebrook Quarry, Brownhills, Staffordshire. The permit variation serves to remove the limits on the volumes of waste that can be stored in relation to the operation of the aggregate recycling facility.

The aggregate recycling facility has a permitted throughput of 75,000 per annum and involves the sorting and screening of soils and the crushing and screening of concrete, bricks etc to produce secondary aggregate.

PDE is pleased to announce, on behalf of Wight Building Materials Limited, that the Environment Agency (EA) have issued a bespoke permit for the operation of a foambase plant and for the continued operation of an inert and excavation waste recycling facility at St Georges Down on the Isle of Wight.

Wight Building Materials were operating a foambase plant at Blackwater Quarry under the conditions of EA Regulatory Position Statement (RPS) 157. The plant is used solely for the recovery of waste coal tar bound road planings for re-use in road construction.

In August 2015 the RPS was revised, and as the operation could no longer meet the limits, it was necessary to apply for a bespoke permit.

An application was submitted for the foambase activities which fall under the definition of an installation due to the volumes of hazardous waste stored and treated. The application also included for the operation of a waste facility for the treatment and recycling of inert and excavation wastes which was previously undertaken by a third party. A previously issued discharge permit was also consolidated into the new bespoke permit.

PDE is pleased to report that the Environment Agency (EA) have confirmed surrender of the environmental permit for a waste recovery project on land off Dock Road in North Tilbury Essex. Under the conditions of the recovery permit S Walsh and Son Ltd imported 200,000m³ of inert and excavation wastes to the site in order to raise the ground level to provide a development platform for a mix of warehousing and distribution, offices, light industry and haulier parking.

Following EA approval of the waste recovery plan and submission of a bespoke permit application, the waste recovery permit was issued in April 2014. The waste operation was completed by the end of 2015 and it was agreed with the local EA officer that the site would qualify for a ‘low risk’ surrender.

The surrender application was duly made upon receipt and the EA had no cause to request any further information for determination. Permit surrender was confirmed by the EA as of 15 April 2016 and construction of the buildings is well underway.

We are pleased to announce that the Environment Agency have granted a permit variation at Griff Quarry, Nuneaton, Warwickshire on behalf of WCL Quarries Limited. WCL are now permitted to accept up to 750,000 tonnes of material for restoration at the site, allowing for a faster restoration of the quarry to agriculture and habitats. The application was submitted under a minor technical variation and was approved without delay.

On 6 April 2016 the Environment Agency (EA) issued twelve new standard rules permits for flood risk activities. The activities covered include for the temporary diversion of a main river, works to main river banks, excavating a wetland or pond in a main river floodplain and installing and using boreholes and trial pits within a main river floodplain for a temporary period.

For each new activity the EA has issued a set of rules, guidance on how to comply with the rules and a generic risk assessment.

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/standard-rules-environmental-permitting

We are pleased to announce that the Environment Agency have granted a bespoke permit to S Walsh and Son Ltd for a waste operation at Marshgate Sidings, Bow, London. The permit allows for the storage and treatment of up to 350,000 tonnes per annum of a range of inert and non-hazardous wastes. The permit was obtained in a timely manner via a partial transfer application.

We are pleased to announce that the Environment Agency have granted a standard rules permit to Steve Lumley Planing Limited for a waste operation at Hollow Road Farm, Suffolk. The permit allows for operations of an inert and excavation waste transfer station with treatment with throughputs of up to 75,000 tonnes per annum.

We are pleased to announce on behalf of Eurovia Roadstone Limited that Suffolk County Council have granted planning permission to allow the erection of a covered store at Foxhall Quarry, Ipswich.

The covered store will shelter road planings to protect them from adverse weather until they are re-used to provide asphalt materials for the construction industry. One of the main energy consumptive processes of the asphalt operation is the drying and heating of the raw materials prior to mixing it with bitumen to produce the final product. The drier the materials are, before they are fed into the plant, the less energy is needed to dry and heat the asphalt to the required temperature to produce the final product ready for sale.