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Dec 2022
Environment Agency calls for Allerton Park asphalt plant to be rejected
The Environment Agency has called for the creation of an asphalt plant near Knaresborough to be rejected.
The government department has raised concerns over potential pollution to controlled waters in response to Tynedale Roadstone’s planned plant at Allerton Waste Recovery Park, just yards from the A1(M).
The firm, which produces bituminous macadam and asphalt products for roads, already has plants in Newcastle and County Durham and says it needs a third facility to serve contracts for customers in the Yorkshire area.
The plant would include facilities for recycling plastics and other waste products, which could be supplied from operations within the recovery park, into asphalt materials.
Tynedale says the plant would also have the capability to recycle old road material into new asphalt products.
In planning documents submitted to North Yorkshire County Council, agents for the firm said the plant would create about 10 jobs. They said:
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The wider site includes Allerton Waste Recovery Plant, which process 320,000 tonnes of waste a year from York and North Yorkshire councils, a partially completed landfill in a former quarry, a concrete batching plant and a methane gas plant.
Planning documents reveal pre-application talks with the council’s planning officers concluded the principle of locating an asphalt plant at the site was considered a compatible use with the other operations on the site.
However, lodging an objection to the development. the Environment Agency said the firm needed to demonstrate the risk of pollution to controlled waters could be appropriately managed.
The agency stated:
Principal aquifers provide significant quantities of drinking water.
The agency said the applicants had identified the pollution risks without providing adequate mitigation and the plans for piling on the site could result in risks to aquifers.
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