Information for Resource Recovery Park, Brookfield Plantation, off Gretton Brook Road, Corby
Status: PotentialPlanning Region: East Midlands
Planning Sub-Region: Northamptonshire
Operator: ESF Energy (previous scheme involved Gretton Brook Estates Ltd)
Capacity: 154,000
Campaign Group(s): Corby Against Waste Plants and Gretton Parish Council / Gretton and Weldon (Facebook)
Notes: In April 2020 the applicant put in a planning application to vary the consent to allow a change of technology to bubbling fluid bed (BFB) combustion and to increase the total maximum throughput to 154,000 tonnes per annum and this was approved in August 2020 (20/00022/WASVOC and 20/00023/WASVOC). The permission was varied again in April 2022 to increase the stack height from 25m to 35m (NN/21/00059/WASVOC). Previous planning application put on hold indefinitely due to lack of environmental information in December 2014, with an expectation that the developer would apply with a new application taking account of the various changes to the proposal and their environmental impacts [Source]. Outline planning application (ref 13/00027/OUT) submitted January 2013 states that the Renewable Fuel Production and Recycling Facility (which already has planning consent) "will accept up to 120,000 tonnes per annum of the mixed domestic and commercial waste stream to produce approximately 50,000 tonnes per annum of biomass derived fuel", and that the fuel is "intended for use in a biomass powered energy generation facility, within the Resource Recovery Park". DRENL applied in December 2014 to allow waste from further afield at their RDF-production plant [Apps 14/00093&00094/WASVOC] [Source]. In May 2024 the Environment Agency did not include this facility in their list of plants that had a permit or outstanding permit application. (Entry updated 2024-05-13)
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