Environmental Statement December 2007

In December 2007 Peel submitted further information to update the July 2007 Environmental Statement to the Planning Inspectorate and to other interested parties. An updated Planning Statement, Design and Access Statement and Transport Assessment were submitted alongside the further information to update the Environmental Statement. In January 2008 Peel submitted Information for an Appropriate Assessment to inform the Secretaries of State as competant authorities for the purposes of assessing the impact of the proposals on the Mersey Estuary Special Protection Area / Ramsar Site. The updated Environmental Statement is now available on this website by clicking on the following link.

The updated Environmental Statement, and other updated documents, relate to the planning appeal submitted by Peel to the Planning Inspectorate on 12 November 2007 and to the Electricity Act Application submitted to the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform on 30 January 2006, both to be considered at the public inquiry scheduled to commence on the 15th April 2008.

Peel Environmental (Ince) Ltd have on the 18th March 2008 submitted some further information in relation to the Air Quality chapter of the Environmental Statement and this can be found by clicking here.

Click here to view the December 2007 Environmental Statement >>

Ince Resource Recovery Park (RRP) will provide the North West with a range of solutions to waste management issues faced by the region, through the provision of facilities aimed at recycling, recovery and reprocessing of waste materials.

If we are to deal with major issues like global warming and sustainable development, everyone now knows that we need to make more careful use of the earth’s resources and to do something about the increasing amount of waste that our society produces.

We must make more efficient use of energy and look for renewable sources of energy rather than continue our reliance on fossil fuels, we must conserve vital mineral resources and we must produce less waste.

The Ince Resource Recovery Park is a modern, clean and sustainable park, focussed on reprocessing and remanufacturing of waste materials. The development will comprise of three distinct elements:

• Refuse Derived Power Plant (RDF)
• Integrated Waste Management Facility (IWMF)
• Environmental Technologies Complex (ETC)

Whilst the RDF Plant and IWMF are designed primarily to manage waste diverted from landfill, the ETC is a cluster of businesses designed to reprocess and remanufacture waste from specific sources and streams.