Is One of the Largest Family-Owned Waste Management Companies in the UK, Operating Primarily in Wiltshire and Central Southern England

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Hills and our proposal

Hills Waste Solutions (Hills) is one of the largest family-owned waste management companies in the UK, operating primarily in Wiltshire and central Southern England.

Hills is proposing to extend the Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) building at its Lower Compton site, near Calne. This public exhibition is part of the pre-planning consultation process to give local people the opportunity to have their say on the proposals prior to submission of a new planning application.

Highworth Chapel Farm A419 Hills runs seven waste management sites: Malmesbury Purton SWINDON

A429 ■ M4 Northacre Resource Recovery Centre (Westbury) Wootton Wroughton Porte Bassett M4 Marsh

CHIPPENHAM A3102 ■ Porte Marsh (Calne) Calne A346 A4361 Marlborough Corsham Lower Compton Melksham A4 Kintbury Bradford ■ Amesbury on Avon DEVIZES A342 ■ Parkgate Farm (Purton) TROWBRIDGE A342 A338 C

A360 M Westbury Y Tidworth CM ■ Chapel Farm (Swindon) MY Warminster CY Amesbury A36 CMY K ■ A303 Kintbury (Newbury) A338

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Mere Wilton ■ Lower Compton (Calne) SALISBURY

A30 Hills is independently assessed against the most stringent international standards for quality, environmental care and health and safety. It is one of only a handful of waste management companies in the UK to hold ISO9001, ISO14001 and OHSAS18001 certification across all of its activities.

Regular reports are published by Hills to show how the company has performed against set targets and contract delivery obligations.

Hills is proud of its excellent service record, being good neighbours and the way the company supports local communities. At this year’s Wiltshire Business of the Year Awards held recently, Hills was acknowledged for its Environmental performance and was judged overall winner in the Service to Community category.

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Why Lower Compton?

The Lower Compton site has been identified as a strategic waste management site in the Wiltshire and Swindon Waste Site Allocations Local Plan (February 2013).

Lower Compton is also a key operational site in the context of Wiltshire’s Municipal Waste Management Strategy 2012.

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Malmesbury SWINDON Lower Compton A429 M4 Site Wootton Wroughton Bassett M4

A3102 CHIPPENHAM Calne A346

A4361 Marlborough Corsham Melksham A4 Bradford on Avon A342 C DEVIZES

Y TROWBRIDGE A342 A338 CM

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K Westbury Tidworth

Warminster Amesbury A36

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Mere Wilton SALISBURY

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Hills has developed three centres across the county at Amesbury, Westbury and Lower Compton (red squares) which share the management of Wiltshire’s Municipal Solid Waste.

Providing three bulking and transfer points that each serve a distinct area of the county reduces the distance travelled by collection vehicles.

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Lower Compton: the new proposal

Hills is proposing to extend the Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) building at the Lower Compton site in order to manage a wider range of Wiltshire’s recyclable materials and accommodate the waste management requirements of a growing Wiltshire population.

The extension will allow for the MRF a year of waste. That waste material to handle up to 55,000 tonnes of consists of compostable green waste recyclable material a year and takes into (going to Parkgate Farm for composting) account existing cardboard and plastic and non-recyclable household waste tonnage from the Porte Marsh facility (destined for either Colnbrook near in Calne which is due to close on Slough or Hills’ Northacre Resource 31 October 2017. Recovery Centre in Westbury).

CM In addition, part of the extended building In total, this new application will seek

CMY K will be used to house the existing waste to provide facilities capable of dealing transfer operations that currently take with 130,000 tonnes of Wiltshire’s place outside and to handle 75,000 tonnes waste every year.

Artist’s impression of the proposed new Materials Recovery Facility

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Summary of our proposal at a glance

The new proposed planning application for the Lower Compton site is for a significantly scaled down development from what was initially proposed.

In total, this new application will seek to provide facilities to deal with 130,000 tonnes of Wiltshire’s waste and recycling which is a significant reduction (45%) in volume from the 235,000 tonnes capacity sought in the 2011 application.

A commercial and industrial waste treatment facility which formed part of Hills’ previous proposals for the Lower Compton site will no longer be built at this location.

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Item 2011 application 2014 application Extended MRF Yes Yes Covered waste Yes Yes transfer station Commercial waste Yes No treatment facility Retention of existing MRF Yes Yes Covered area 9,629 sq. metres 5,777 sq. metres Application area 8.75 hectares Estimated 4.88 hectares within current within current site boundary site boundary Tonnage input 235,000 per annum 130,000 per annum Jobs 45 existing 9 new 45 existing 0 new

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Summary of our proposal (cont)

Commercial and industrial waste treatment facility no longer included

Proposed MRF extention

Existing MRF building

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Lower Compton

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2011 planning application area

2014 planning application area

Land owned by Hills

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Proposed assessment work

The local environment matters and we understand the importance of protecting and improving it for local residents and businesses in the area. There are a number of local considerations that are being taken into account in the design of the new plan.

The planning application for the Cherhill Monument ©Barry Craske – WWT proposed plans for Lower Compton will be accompanied by detailed assessments on:

● Transport

● Air quality

CMY K ● Visual impact

● Ecology

● Contaminated land

● Water and flood risk

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Minimising traffic impact

The site access road is 700m north of the A4, which is identified as a Principal Route within Wiltshire’s HGV Route Network.

In-coming > Lower Compton receives incoming collection vehicles that drop off waste and recyclable materials before returning to their collection routes.

Out-going > HGVs carrying sorted and bulked recyclable materials destined for onward reprocessing markets leave Lower Compton together with empty recycling vehicles returning to their collection routes.

45 Additional movements 11 40 12 Existing movements 35 30 6 25 C M 4 Y 5 CM 2 2 3 MY 20 3

CMY K 15 10 1 5 Number of vehicles (2-way) vehicles Number of 0 7-8am 8-9am 9-10am 10-11am 11am-12pm 12-1pm 1-2pm 2-3pm 3-4pm 4-5pm Time

Predicted typical weekday HGV traffic movements (2-way) assuming the site is working at maximum capacity (130,000 tonnes)

The graph shows the maximum number (49 per day) of additional HGV movements if the site were to operate at its maximum permitted capacity (130,000 tonnes). Peak HGV movements occur outside the traditional week day morning and evening rush hours with the greatest number of HGV movements predicted between 12pm and 2pm.

Hills is undertaking a transport assessment to support its planning application which will give full consideration to the designation of an Air Quality Management Area (AQMA) in parts of Calne.

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Timeline and next steps

Hills submitted its Scoping Report to Wiltshire Council on 10th June 2014.

A five-week period of pre-planning public consultation also began on 10th June. This process will run until 11th July 2014 and this public exhibition forms an essential part of that consultation process.

Once the pre-planning consultation process has come to an end, all feedback will be analysed and fed into Hills’ planning application.

Hills hopes to submit its new planning application to Wiltshire Council’s planning department by the end of July 2014. Subject to obtaining planning consent in autumn 2014, construction could start before 2015.

CY CMY Your feedback K Please complete a Feedback Form before you leave.

Thank you for attending today’s exhibition. Your feedback is important to Hills and will help to shape the planning application that is eventually submitted to Wiltshire Council’s planning department.