Sycamore Planning Ltd have applied for permission to build a Combined Heat and Power plant combined with a Waste Water (leachate)
Treatment Plant on land at the Landfill Site, Puddock Road, Warboys.
Planning Application Reference No. H/5002/18/CW (include this at the top of your letter)
The deadline for members of the public to write with any concerns is 8 February 2018.
The planning appn is online at:
http://planning.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/swift/apas/run/wphappcriteria.display
then use
H/5002/18/CW. The 'supporting planning statement' section is useful.
You can respond to Cambridgeshire County Council online from the above site or by email to
planningdc@cambridqeshire.gov.uk or in writing by post to County Planning, Minerals and Waste Team, Box SH1315, Shire Hall, Cambridge, CB3 OAP
If you can, please copy your response asap to Warboys Parish Council email
clerk@warboysparishcouncil.co.uk or to 1 Blenheim Close, off Pathfinder Way also to Huntingdonshire District Council by email at
developmentcontrol@huntingdonshire.gov.uk or to Planning Services, Huntingdonshire District Council, Pathfinder House, St Mary's Street, Huntingdon, Cambs, PE29 3TN
We urge you to write in your own words — below are some notes to help you.
Choose only two or three issues which concern you most to mention — you do not have to be highly technical in your responses. Each member of your household can write including young people.
Inputs, exports and emissions.
The combustor will have a 25 metre tall chimney emitting CO2 + any possible contaminants. It will burn 144 tonnes
of chipped wood per day (48000-52000 tonnes/yr) 40% of the wood will come from Woodford Recycling rest from within
a 30 mile radius. The wood will exclude hazardous but will include painted and glued woods in categories 2 and 3.
The waste water (leachate) treatment plant will have six 12 metre high chimneys pretreated with sulphuric acid (to
adjust pH) and hydrogen peroxide and aeration before being released into the air containing both water vapour and
possible pollutants. Leachate will come from Warboys (site contains hazardous waste) and from sites within a 30 mile
radius. It will evaporate 195 tonnes waste water (leachate) per day (65000-70000 tonnes/yr)
Traffic to the site along Fenside Road
This is single track with passing places and in a poor state of repair. The exit onto the busy A141 is dangerous
for large slow moving vehicles turning across the traffic. The construction would take 9 months with 100 contractors
increasing traffic pressures. When operating up to 36 traffic movements per day (18 X 2 in and out) Lorries would
contain 24 tonnes of chipped wood for burning Ash , volume -up to 1 tonne per day, 21 tonne bags and shipped out
twice a week Tankers would contain 27 tonnes of liquid leachate for evaporating Leaving residues of 1 tonne per day,
in sealed tanks shipped out 3 times per week for treatment.
Operating times
Will operate 24 hours per day, 7 days a week Traffic will arrive between 07:00 to 19:00 on weekdays, 07:00
to 13:00 on Saturday. Not on Sundays.
Owners and Operators
The presentations via the exhibition and to the Parish Council were by planning advisors who did not mention that
the generator will be owned by Cambridgeshire Biomass Ltd and the waste water treatment will be owned by H2O
Resources Ltd — a separate company. If anything goes wrong who will be responsible? Both companies have been set
up within the last 12 months and have no experience of running such an untested scheme. The planning process is
for the site and does not consider the owners.
We are local volunteers, keen to hear from anyone with specialized knowledge or expertise to help WLAG. To contact WLAG. Email
WLAG@warboys.co.uk or phone Betty Ball on 01487 822083.
For a .pdf of this document which you can print:
WLAG.pdf