New plans for organic waste plant near Colney Heath (From St Albans & Harpenden Review)
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New plans for organic waste plant near Colney Heath
8:50am Wednesday 8th February 2012 in News
Plans have been submitted to Hertfordshire County Council for an organic waste plant on the outskirts of Colney Heath.
The company Agrivert has applied for permission to build an anaerobic digestion plant that would generate enough electricity to power 6000 households. It would be built at Coursers Farm, near Willows Farm Village.
The facility would process up to 48,500 tonnes of biodegradable organic waste each year.
The facility would means building a reception, eight tanks, a site office, access roads and 16 new car parking spaces.
St Albans Green Councillor Simon Grover welcomed the plans.
He said:"Agrivert already run an excellent organic waste facility for Hertfordshire in South Mimms.
"This new plant would mean the county can properly deal with even more of our green waste, and get renewable electricity into the bargain. This is a much better idea than the giant incinerator that County wants to build near Hatfield."
Comments(2)
Lunachick
says...
6:42pm Mon 13 Feb 12
An anaerobic digestion plant takes only organic waste; an incinerator takes inorganic waste (since much of our organic waste is already collected & dealt with separately). They are chalk and cheese, and cannot be compared, I would have thought. Perhaps Mr Grover has been misquoted...
Lucy says...
4:14pm Thu 9 Feb 12
Residents in London Colney and the affected area of Hertsmere will tell you (if you bothered to ask them, which clearly, you have not), that the Agrivert plant at Redwell Wood emits a constant and utterly foul sickly sweet smell. Indeed even the company admit that there is an odour issue at this site.
While there is a need to site these facilities somewhere and they are better than the other option - landfill - London Colney and Colney Heath should not be allowed to become the waste disposal solution for the whole county. That is EXTREMELY unfair on the affected residents.
Simon Grover, I think you should apologise to London Colney, Colney Heath and Hertsmere residents for your ill-judged comments.