Proposal

Flue Connected to 70kW biomass boiler

Brookside Depot Buxton Road NR12 7NQ

APPLICATION STATEMENT

Version 1.0 January 2014

RenEnergy Ltd, Road, Heath, Norwich, NR13 4RR

0845 225 2727

Contents

1. Project Overview ...... 3 2. Application Site ...... 3 3. Design ...... 4 4. Planning Policy ...... 5 5. Application plans and drawings ...... 5 Appendix 1 - Site Photographs ...... 6 Appendix 2 – Flue Specification ...... 8

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1. Project Overview

1.1. This application is for a flue at Brookside waste depot, owned by District Council. The flue will form part of a 70kW biomass installation, to heat the offices and workshop at the Veolia Environment Services domestic waste vehicle depot.

1.2. The site currently has oil fired heating, which heat a workshop and office at the depot. The new heating system will replace the oil boiler with a biomass boiler.

1.3. This biomass installation will drastically reduce the carbon emissions of this site.

2. Application Site 2.1. The address of this site is:

Brookside Depot Buxton Rd, Frettenham, Norwich, Norfolk, NR12 7NQ

2.2. Brookside Depot is owned by Broadland District Council, and operated by Veolia Environment Services as a transport depot and office for domestic waste services.

2.3. The site is off Buxton Road, between the villages of and Frettenham. The depot has its own gated entrance from the main road.

Fig. 1 – Site Location. Site marked with 1. ©Microsoft Corporation 2014

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2.4. The depot contains an office, workshop and storage buildings, including parking for refuse collection vehicles and staff cars.

2.5. The depot is built upon a landfill site.

2.6. This application is for a flue on the workshop roof, from which the emissions from the biomass boiler, to be house within the workshop, will exit. The heat generated by the biomass boiler will be to heat the office and workshop, as marked on Fig. 2 below.

Office

Workshop

Fig. 2 – Site Location Aerial view. Red dot marks flue location. ©Microsoft Corporation 2014

3. Design 3.1. The flue will penetrate the building at low height and be attached to the exterior of the workshop using stainless steel clips.

3.2. Manufactured by SPECFLUE from of stainless steel, the flue will not protrude more than 600mm above the roof of the workshop building, as shown on drawing 9842-P02.

3.3. See further detail on the flue installation method and height calculations in Appendix 2.

3.4. The flue is connected to a 70kW biomass boiler, to be housed within the workshop. The fuel will be stored in an external hopper, which will replace the current oil tank at the rear of the building on the existing concrete pad. (see Appendix 1).

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3.5. The biomass system will heat the workshop using new fan coil heaters to be mounted on the internal walls of the building. Within the office building, the new heating system will be connected to the existing radiators.

4. Planning Policy 4.1. This flue installation falls outside of permitted development, because the associated biomass boiler exceeds 45kW in size.

5. Application plans and drawings 5.1. The documents and drawings submitted to accompany this application are as follows. This is in addition to the planning form.

 9471-APP – Application Statement (this document)

5.2. All drawings are to scale as stated.

 9471-P01 – Site Location Plan  9471-P02 – Flue location detail

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Appendix 1 - Site Photographs All photographs taken by RenEnergy.

Rear of workshop. Flue to be mounted on this external face of building.

Existing Oil tanks

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Workshop building. Proposed flue will be lower in height than existing oil flue. Existing Oil flue marked with red circle. Proposed biomass flue location shown with yellow circle.

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Appendix 2 – Flue Specification

Extracts from SpecFlue iFlue literature.

The document can be downloaded from http://specflue.com/literature/category/chimney-systems

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