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Information for Longridge Road Energy Centre, Red Scar Industrial Estate, Ribbleton, Preston

Status: Prevented
Planning Region: North West
Planning Sub-Region: Lancashire
Operator: Miller Turner Group
Capacity: 395,000
Campaign Group(s): Residents Against Longridge Road Energy Centre (Facebook group, Twitter)
Notes: Planning application granted with an R1 condition for a conventional moving grant incinerator in November 2019 (LCC/2019/0029). Intended to treat both mixed waste and RDF. Lancashire County Council stated in March 2022 that: "Some works to commence the development are due to start in summer 2022 with the main construction works to follow once the remainder of the planning condition requirements have been addressed". According to the October 2021 REPD, planning permission expired in November 2022 however planning application LCC/2019/0029NM1 appears to have allowed construction to commence prior to the pre-commencement conditions having been met in order to prevent the permission from technically expiring [Source]. In April 2024, the Environment Agency confirmed to local campaigners that no application for an environmental permit had been received for this facility. In May 2024 the Environment Agency did not include this facility in their list of plants that had a permit or outstanding permit application. In November 2025 a liquidator was appointed to wind up Miller Turner Group (UK) Ltd [Source] (Entry updated 2026-01-16)

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Planning Consent files:

81-PlanningConsent-2019.pdf

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