Riverside Energy Park Applicant responses to Relevant Representations VOLUME NUMBER: PLANNING INSPECTORATE REFERENCE NUMBER: EN010093 DOCUMENT REFERENCE: 08 8.02.03 May 2019 Revision 0 (Deadline 2) Planning Act 2008 | Infrastructure Planning (Applications: Prescribed Forms and Procedure) Regulations 2009 Riverside Energy Park Applicant Responses to Relevant Representations CONTENTS 0 Introduction ....................................................................................................... 5 1 Theme Responses ............................................................................................ 7 1.1 Air Quality (TR-001) ............................................................................. 12 1.2 Terrestrial Biodiversity (TR-003) .......................................................... 24 1.3 Ground Conditions (TR-009) ................................................................ 39 1.4 Need for the scheme (TR-013) ............................................................ 43 1.5 Noise and Vibration (TR-014) .............................................................. 48 1.6 Public Consultation (TR-016) ............................................................... 54 1.7 Safety (TR-018) ................................................................................... 58 1.8 Socio-economics (TR- 019) ................................................................. 61 1.9 Source of Waste (TR-20) ..................................................................... 65 1.11 Construction Traffic (TR-022)............................................................... 66 1.12 Operational Road and River Transportation (TR-023) ......................... 70 1.13 TVIA (TR-024) ...................................................................................... 75 1.14 Carbon (TR-025) .................................................................................. 83 2 Local Authorities ............................................................................................. 86 2.1 London Borough of Tower Hamlets (RR-047) ...................................... 86 2.2 Be First on behalf of London Borough of Barking and Dagenham (RR-059) ......................................................................................................... 88 2.3 London Borough of Havering (RR-064) ............................................... 89 2.4 Dartford Borough Council (RR-072) ..................................................... 98 2.5 Greater London Authority (RR-075) ..................................................... 99 2.6 Kent County Council (RR-079)........................................................... 107 2.7 Royal Borough of Greenwich (RR-084) ............................................. 108 2.8 London Borough of Bexley ................................................................. 110 3 Statutory Organisations ............................................................................... 111 3.1 The Coal Authority (RR-003) ............................................................. 111 3.2 East London Waste Authority (RR-034) ............................................. 112 3.3 Knights Solicitors on behalf of S Wernick & Sons (Holdings) Limited (RR-041) .......................................................................................... 117 3.4 Knights Solicitors on behalf of Wernick Event Hire Limited (RR- 042) 124 3.5 NATS LTD (RR-049) .......................................................................... 131 3.6 Public Health England (RR-067) ........................................................ 132 Riverside Energy Park Applicant Responses to Relevant Representations 3.7 Environment Agency (RR-074) .......................................................... 133 3.8 Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) on behalf of Network Rail Infrastructure Limited (RR-082) .................................................................... 138 3.9 Winckworth Sherwood LLP on behalf of Port of London Authority (RR-083) ....................................................................................................... 140 3.10 Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP on behalf of Thames Water Utilities Limited (TWUL) (RR-086) ...................................................... 141 3.11 Transport for London (RR-087) .......................................................... 152 4 Non-statutory Organisation ......................................................................... 157 4.1 Dartford and Crayford Creek Restoration Trust (RR-002) .................. 157 4.2 London Power Networks plc (RR-004) ............................................... 159 4.3 South Eastern Power Networks plc (RR-005) .................................... 160 4.4 United Kingdom Without Incineration Network (UKWIN) (RR-006) .... 161 4.5 National Grid Electricity Transmission Plc (RR-008) .......................... 176 4.6 Maritime and Coastguard Agency (RR-027) ...................................... 177 4.7 Bexley Natural Environment Forum (RR-033).................................... 179 4.8 Essex Wildlife Trust (RR-045) ............................................................ 188 4.9 Bexley-Greenwich Environment Alliance (RR-050) ............................ 190 4.10 Cory Environmental Limited (RR-060) ............................................... 194 4.11 London First (RR-080) ....................................................................... 196 5 Member of the Public / Business ................................................................. 198 5.1 Maz Mohammed (RR-001) ................................................................ 198 5.2 Knights Solicitors on behalf of SAS Depot Limited (RR-028) ............. 200 5.3 Western Riverside Waste Authority (RR-029) .................................... 208 5.4 Knights Solicitors on behalf of S Wernick & Sons (Holdings) Limited (RR-041) .......................................................................................... 213 5.5 Knights Solicitors on behalf of Wernick Event Hire Limited (RR-042) ....................................................................................................... 219 5.6 Ingrebourne Valley Limited (RR-053) ................................................. 226 5.8 Spring Law on behalf of Creek Side Developments (Kent) Limited (RR-061) ....................................................................................................... 228 5.9 Tozers LLP on behalf of Landsul Limited (RR-063) ........................... 230 5.10 Belvedere Community Forum (RR-043) ............................................. 234 5.11 Newell Projects Ltd on behalf of ARRIVA London Ltd (RR-055) ........ 235 5.12 Tozers LLP on behalf of Munster Joinery (U.K.) Limited (RR-065) .... 244 5.13 JMW Planning Solutions Ltd on behalf of Prologis UK Ltd (RR-066) ....................................................................................................... 248 Riverside Energy Park Applicant Responses to Relevant Representations 5.14 Riverside Resource Recovery Limited (RR-068) ............................... 251 5.15 John Cruddas MP (RR-036)............................................................... 253 5.16 Sir David Evennett MP (RR-052) ....................................................... 258 5.17 Teresa Pearce MP (RR-054) ............................................................. 261 Tables Table 1.1: Table of Theme Responses .................................................................................. 7 Table 1.4: Summary of Representations .............................................................................. 39 Table 1.5: Summary of Representations .............................................................................. 43 Table 1.5: Summary of Representations .............................................................................. 48 Table 1.6: Summary of Representations .............................................................................. 54 Table 1.7: Summary of Representations .............................................................................. 58 Table 1.8: Summary of Representations ................................................................... 61 Table 1.9: Summary of Representation ..................................................................... 66 Table 1.10: Summary of Representation ................................................................... 71 Table 1.11: Summary of Representations ................................................................. 75 Table 1.12: Summary of Representations ................................................................. 83 Table 4.1: Local Authority Collected Waste incineration and recycling rates across four London boroughs, 2017/18 (an update of the table in UKWIN RR at paragraph 80) ..................................................................................... 170 Table 4.2: An update of UKWIN estimate of London incineration capacity (tables at UK WIN 55) ............................................................................................... 172 Table 4.3: An update on UKWIN potential for incineration over capacity (tables at UKWIN 65 ................................................................................................. 173 Glossary .................................................................................................................. 175 Figures Figure 1: Extract from LWSA (Annex A, PINS Reference APP-103) of Figure 6.1 - Scenarios 1, 2a, 3b and 4 of the