Madley recycling centre
Herefordshire Council has received a Revised Environmental Statement (RES) from Aldridge-based Estech Europe Ltd over plans to build a recycling centre in Hereford.
The document was submitted Friday (October 21) – eight months after the High Court quashed the council’s decision to permit the development at Madley.
The RES includes details about how the recycling centre works, its impacts on traffic, highways, air quality, landscape, ecology, noise and vibration, archaeology, land contamination and other issues.
As part of the original planning application, Estech Europe wanted to a build a new waste treatment and recycling centre at Stoney Street Industrial Estate, Madley.
Herefordshire Council’s Southern Area Planning Committee granted permission in March 2004 but that decision was reversed after residents lodged a judicial review.
The High Court ruled in February 2005 that the decision was unlawful on a technicality - because the council had not taken into account the potential significance of emissions.
The effect of that decision was to leave the application undetermined.
Now the council’s Southern Area Planning Committee is being asked to reconsider permission for the scheme in light of the new document.
The application will be subject to the normal planning process. A full report, including officer’s recommendations, will be available to the public in the near future. The application will also be advertised in the local press and on site.
At this stage no date has been fixed for when it will be considered.
The council received more than 400 letters from residents, businesses and other interested parties when the original application was lodged.
Herefordshire Council will accept and consider new correspondence on the application but comments received before will be noted and form part of the planning process unless those letters have been withdrawn.
Representation can be submitted to Planning Services, PO Box 230, Blue School House, Blue School Street, Hereford, HR1 2ZB.
