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Edenhall Hamsterley 020402.Doc Planning Committee 2 April 2002 Teesdale District: Proposed installation of two animal incinerators within existing building, each with 15 metre chimney, and two mobile refrigeration units at Eden Hall, Hamsterley for John Warren (Animal By-Products) Limited. Report of John Suckling, Head of Planning Purpose 1 The purpose of this report is to enable the Planning Committee to determine a planning application for the installation of two animal incinerators and two associated mobile refrigeration units at Eden Hall, Hamsterley for John Warren (Animal By-Products) Limited. Background 2 This application has been referred by Teesdale District Council to the County Council for determination. The District Council commenced the publicity and consultation process and the responses to that process form part of the background papers and have been included in this report. 3 The applicant operates a number of operations from Eden Hall, a knackering facility and a raw material haulage business for hides, skins, offal and animal waste. The operator uses the site as a collection point for fallen stock and those collected under Over Thirty Month Scheme, before haulage to animal cremation facilities in Dumfries, but no formal arrangement exists between the applicant and the Scottish incinerator operator. In total, Mr Warren employs 20 people, (plus 4 full time and 2 part time in the site office). The site operates 24 hours for seven days a week 4 The application site is part of an existing knackering building and adjacent hardstanding. The remainder of the site comprises a building used for the storage of hides and skins, parking and turning area, lock up store and secure container. A previously approved building to provide a covered parking area is also under construction. A vehicular parking and storage area (0.55 hectares) has been constructed to the east of the application site, for which planning permission is to be sought from the Teesdale District Council. The site itself is open farmland on the north facing side of the Bedburn Valley. A location plan is attached to this report. 5 In anticipation of the consequences of legislation regarding the disposal of animal by products and to ensure the security of employment and modernisation of disposal facilities at the site, the applicant seeks to expand the range of operations at Eden Hall, to offer an incineration service, which would take animals from Cleveland, Durham, Northumberland, the north of North Yorkshire and Tyne & Wear. 6 This report has had regard to the environmental information contained in the application and arising from the statutory consultations on the application, and any other material considerations. The Committee needs to consider the proposal in the light of policies in the adopted County Structure Plan [CSP], and the First Draft Deposit Waste Local Plan [WLP] The proposals 7 The application proposes the installation of two animal incinerators, within an existing building, each intended to dispose of 400kg of animal waste per hour. Each incinerator has a 15 metre refractory lined chimney stack measuring approximately 1 metre in diameter, which would protrude approximately 6.3 metres above the ridgeline of the building. Two mobile refrigeration units measuring 12.2 metres long by 2.45 metres wide by 2.45 high, would be located immediately to the east of the existing knackering building. 8 The incinerators would operate between 6.00am and 10.00pm, seven days per week. Carcass deliveries to the site would take place between the same hours. Up to five new jobs would be created. 9 Fallen stock would be off loaded from the delivery vehicles directly into the incinerator building. Stock that cannot be cremated would be stored in the mobile refrigeration units. The refrigeration units would also be unloaded indoors. The waste would be loaded directly into the incinerator and burned in the primary combustion chamber at a temperature between 850 and 1000 degrees centigrade, and thence in a secondary combustion chamber operating at 850 degrees centigrade. The cremators would be computer controlled, each equipped with continuous monitoring systems that indicate carbon monoxide, oxygen and particulate matter concentrations. Releases of hydrogen chloride, sulphur dioxide and organic compounds would be monitored during the commissioning of the incinerators and thereafter by independent agency appointed by the applicant, but supervised and at a frequency and methodology approved by the District Council’s Environmental Health Officer. 10 After processing the incinerator waste, comprising fine ash and bone residues, would be removed from the incinerator manually and transferred to a covered skip, located inside the incinerator building. Thereafter, a waste disposal contractor would collect the skips and dispose of the ash and residue to a suitably licensed landfill site. Planning considerations General planning policy issues 11 Government advice in PPG10 – Planning and Waste Management considers the location of waste management facilities and advises that 2 such development should be located where it is compatible with neighbouring land uses and where it will have the least impact on the local population and the environment. 12 The adopted County Durham Structure Plan (CSP) seeks to ensure the safe and effective treatment and disposal of waste both from within the County and elsewhere, in ways which minimise the impact upon, and wherever possible, improve the environment of the County. The Plan also recognises the importance of providing adequate facilities to cater for all the waste that requires disposal within County Durham, after allowing for reduction, re-use and recovery. 13 The Structure Plan seeks to strengthen and diversify the rural economy and recognises that is important to provide for small scale, local employment needs in the smaller towns and larger villages either through new development or by the re-use of existing buildings. 14 In accordance with the principles of sustainable development, Policy 1 of the CSP states that new development should not have an unacceptable impact on the built environment, the amenity of local communities, the landscape or nature conservation and that the existing highway network should be able to accommodate the traffic generated by the development. Policy 4 of the CSP seeks to ensure that, where possible, new development should be located within the existing framework of towns and villages, such that the countryside is protected from development that does not need to be located there. 15 The County Durham First Draft Deposit Waste Local Plan (WLP) develops the approach of the Structure Plan. Policy W1 of the WLP reflects the principles of sustainable waste management, the Best Practicable Environmental Option, the Proximity Principle and Regional Self Sufficiency, aiming to target development to the best location and reduce unnecessary transportation of waste. 16 Policy W3 seeks to ensure that proposals for new developments demonstrate that the natural and built environment and amenity of local communities will be protected and where possible enhanced. Policy W4 seeks to ensure that proposals for new waste management facilities protect the environment and local amenity; minimise the environmental impacts of transporting waste; beneficially recover materials or energy; extend or develop existing waste management facilities or develop new facilities alongside existing facilities; and to identify locations where they would bring environmental benefits. 17 Policy W45 of the WLP seeks to restrict the development of incineration facilities for the disposal of animal carcasses to where it can be demonstrated that there is an established need for the facilities; they contribute to a sustainable waste management system for County Durham; and represent the Best Practical Environmental Option and where appropriate should produce electricity and useable heat. The specific environmental impacts are considered below. 3 Residential amenity 18 The site does not lie close to any groups of properties, although 6 individual properties lie within 450 metres of the site. The nearest residential property is Holly Bush approximately 370 metres to the south of the site. Quarry House is located 395 metres to the south of the site, and Bedburn Lodge some 420 metres to the north. The village of Hamsterley is located approximately 600 metres to the east. 19 Policy W28 of the WLP requires suitable mitigation measures to be applied to ensure that any harmful impacts from pollution by noise, odour, dust, mud, visual intrusion, traffic and transport are kept to an acceptable level. 20 The proposed incinerators would be some distance from noise sensitive properties and it is therefore unlikely that there would be an adverse impact arising from noise emitted from the machinery. Nevertheless, were planning permission granted, conditions could be imposed that would enable mitigation measures to be put in place. The applicant proposes an odour control and containment regime and measures to minimise dust emissions, which include covered and chilled storage of carcasses and waste, rigorous cleaning and disinfecting, and an undertaking that all animal processing would be carried out indoors. Should planning permission be granted, conditions could be attached to this effect. Waste wash water would be disposed to an existing cesspit and removed from site by a suitably licensed waste disposal contractor, as required. The District Council’s Environmental Health Officer and the Environment Agency have no objections to the proposals in these respects. The safeguards proposed to protect the quality of ground and surface water are acceptable. 21 The proposal is subject to the Secretary of State’s guidance on emissions to air contained in PG5/3(95) “Animal Remains Incineration Processes Under One Tonne per Hour”. The District Council’s Environmental Health Officer would carry out monitoring. In terms of emissions to air, the District Council’s Environmental Health Officer and the Environment Agency do not object to the proposal. 22 The height of each stack accords with advice described in Technical Guidance by the Environment Agency on Discharge Stack Heights for Polluting Emissions.
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