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Mar
Consultants awarded £480,000 to improve performance at Allerton Park
North Yorkshire Council is to pay consultants nearly half a million pounds to improve the performance of Allerton Waste Recovery Park.
The council has hired Walker Resource Management Ltd, which is based in Otley, on a £480,000 contract.
The move will see the firm provide “specialist technical, commercial and contractual advice” to the authority’s waste management team as well as “effective management and oversight”.
The recovery park, which is run by Thalia Waste Management on behalf of North Yorkshire Council and City of York Council, is based off the A1(M) near Knaresborough.
Built at a cost of £1.2 billion to divert 320,000 tonnes of waste a year from landfill, it includes a mechanical treatment plant, an anaerobic digester and an incinerator that generates energy from waste.
According to the contract, which will last until April 2030, the consultancy firm will help with “operational performance” at the site.
It said:
The consultancy will support the effective management and oversight of the Allerton Waste Recovery Park public private partnership contract, held with AWRP SPV (the contractor), helping to ensure the continued delivery of value for money, contractual compliance and operational performance across this complex long-term arrangement.
The move comes as the recovery park has been criticised for missing key performance targets.
Each year, the plant is set a contractual target of sending 5% of the waste it receives to recycling.
However, since 2018, the plant has failed to meet the target each year.
According to council, the failure to meet the requirement in 2025 was due to a breakdown in the plant’s technology, including its mechanical treatment shredders.
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