Contaminated Soil Treatment Plant at Daneshill
FCC Environmental operate the Daneshill Landfill site. The landfill is not active but is in the restoration phase. FCC have applied to Nottinghamshire County Council (NCC) with a view to creating a contaminated soil processing facility at the site.
FCC wish to use the treated soils from the proposed contaminated soil processing facility in the restoration of the landfill (as backfill). The contaminants include asbestos, and concerns have been expressed already by local people, including experts in the field that the asbestos contaminants might, for example, include certain fibres of asbestos known to be carcinogenic.
Whilst NCC are the responsible Planning Authority, the body charged with considering the associated environmental issues are the Environment Agency (EA). It is to the Environment Agency that FCC have made application for an Environmental Permit and that application is out for public consultation. It is your opportunity to voice your views about the proposal and the closing date has now been extended to Thursday 23rd September 2021.
Ultimately FCC will need to present the Environmental Permit (if so determined by the EA) with an Impact Assessment and application paperwork to NCC and another public consultation will follow.
However this is your opportunity to express a view on whether you believe that the environmental impacts of the process as described by FCC in the application for an Environmental Permit are mitigated.
FCC might well in the long run obtain consents from the authorities to set up their plant at Daneshill. It is up to us all to voice our concerns at this stage to ensure that their processes reflect the best practices and meet the concerns of local residents. Daneshill is, after all, close enough to several villages in the area for the impacts of fugitive dust emissions, noise from operating plant and vehicle movements to and from the site to be of a real concern.
To give you an idea of what you might write in your response to the consultation, you may like to read some of the comments already posted on the EA website, together the EA’s description of what they might reasonably consider as relevant.
Visit the EA Consultation Overview here
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