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Walsall Road Walsall Wood Walsall
WS9 9AH
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Operational landfill
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Himley Quarry Landfill Site
Oak Lane, Kingswinford
DY6 7JS
24
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Dudley MBC - planning permission relating to the operations (refs: P03/2440; P15/1028 and P18/0171).
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In response to your Call for Sites I attach a Location Plan and approved Restoration Plan identifying our current landfill site at Himley, off Oak Lane, Kingswinford. Also attached is the current planning permission relating to the operations (refs: P03/2440; P15/1028 and P18/0171). The site is operated by Enovert. The full site area, including land outside the landfill, extends to some 24.5 hectares. Access is via the existing entrance from Oak Lane. In the Black Country Core Strategy the Himley landfill is identified as a strategic waste management site whose capacity will be safeguarded and will contribute to serving the identified waste management needs of the Black Country for landfill during the Plan period to 2026. At the time of the previous planning application it was assumed that by the end of December 2025 the landfilling of the site would be complete. This is reflected in revised Condition 6 of planning permission P18/0171. This assumption was considered realistic at the time, taking into account the remaining void and the rate of waste inputs. However, in the meantime, reflecting the continued drive both to recycle more waste and to produce less waste in the first instance, inputs have declined. Whilst we are some way off the end of 2025, it is likely that the final area to be filled – the north facing flank to the site, parallell to Oak Lane – will require additional time to complete, together with the importation of restoration soils, a material which has previously been in short supply here. The consequence is that, although large parts of the site have been filled and are in the process of being, or have been, capped and restorated, at the end of 2025 there will likely remain some 125-150,000m3 along the north facing flank of the site that remains to be filled and restored so that the the approved scheme for the site can be delivered. It is not proposed to increase the size of the void or to change the final levels or restoration scheme for the site. The only change will be to the lifespan of the site to enable landfilling to continue and the approved restoration scheme to be delivered. To enable delivery of the restored site and to continue contribute to meeting the waste disposal needs of the Black Country, we request that the Himley landfill be identified in the Black Country Plan as a landfill site for non-hazardous and inert waste.
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