Find out more about specialist proposals for the future treatment of your leftover waste at a series of public information drop in sessions, starting next week.
The Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham, (BDR) Waste Partnership is holding a series of drop in sessions at local venues. They will give people the chance to find out more about what two waste industry specialist companies, SITA UK Lend Lease and 3SE, a consortium of Shanks Group plc and the SSE (Scottish and Southern Energy plc) are proposing for a brownfield site at Bolton Road, Manvers in Rotherham. There will be details of the proposals, architectural impressions of what the facilities would look like and staff will be on hand to answer questions. Each session runs from 12 noon to 8pm. They are:-
- Wednesday June 16, (Barnsley), Prospect Road Community Centre, Bolton on Dearne
- Friday June 18 June: (Rotherham), Montgomery Hall, Wath on Dearne
- Tuesday June 22, (Doncaster), Mexborough Resource Centre.
Representatives from the Environment Agency and Health Protection Agency will also be at all three sessions, between 4.30-7pm to offer general information.
BDR Waste Partnership Board Chair Richard Russell said: “We hope as many people as possible take the opportunity to visit these sessions and find out more about what is being proposed. All local authorities must have plans in place to manage the waste that is left when everything else possible has been recycled do this – if we don’t, we face very heavy fines. At the moment, most of this leftover waste goes to landfill, but landfill sites across the country are almost full, and they produce harmful greenhouses gases which damage the environment.”
“However, nothing will go ahead until there has been a full planning application. This means local people can find out information about both proposals now. They will then get a further chance later on in the process, to look and comment on the one detailed preferred proposal at the planning stage.”
Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham councils, together as the BDR Waste Partnership, are working towards the next stage of the procurement of waste treatment facilities. £77.4m of Private Finance Initiative (PFI) funding has been secured from central government’s Waste Infrastructure Development Programme to help fund the development.
The two shortlisted bidders’ proposals are being further developed and evaluated, before just one is selected later this year as the preferred contractor to take the proposal forward to the pre-planning stage.
The preferred scheme will be chosen later this year, and if planning and other permissions are granted, construction is expected to take two-and-a-half years. The facility will open in 2015.
