CORBRIGGS - Waste Transfer Station

RRS is proposing to upgrade the existing MXG Waste Transfer Station at Mansfield Road in Corbriggs, Chesterfield, Derbyshire.

The Corbriggs Waste Transfer Station is operated by MXG, a specialist recycling company for RRS. The existing facility will be upgraded to enable municipal waste to be handled at the site alongside the current handling of construction and demolition waste.

As the Corbriggs facility already operates as a Waste Transfer Station no new buildings/structures are needed on the site, apart from two portacabins, an additional weighbridge, an external gully waste store and additional container storage.

When developed, the facility will handle an additional 24,000–48,000 tonnes of waste per year, bringing the total capacity of the facility to 47,500–71,500 tonnes per year.

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The Site

The site is located approximately 4km to the south east of Chesterfield and 14km to the north east of Matlock, in an established industrial area.

RRS looked at a number of sites in North Derbyshire before selecting the MXG Waste Transfer Station at Corbriggs. Out of 71 sites initially shortlisted, RRS conducted a more detailed appraisal of 18 sites.

This detailed appraisal scored the sites against a number of criteria – availability, deliverability, planning vision, allocation in abandoned Waste Preferred Options DPD, sensitive human receptors, landscape and visual consideration, potential impacts on natural environment, potential impact on historic environment and built heritage, road access, flood risk and ground water vulnerability, air quality management areas and green belt.

Against this background, the Corbriggs site was chosen as a suitable site for the following reasons:

  • The site is located within an established industrial area
  • The site is well related to the primary road network with good connections to the A617
  • The site benefits from screening by existing trees and landforms and other industrial buildings
  • The site already operates as a Waste Transfer Station and can be developed without additional
    transfer buildings
  • The principle of waste development has been found to be acceptable at the site and it already benefits
    from planning permission for waste uses

View a location plan of the site

Traffic and transport

A Transport Assessment, which accompanies the application, has been completed in conjunction with the proposal to analyse the route and the anticipated levels of traffic. The Assessment demonstrates that the local road network can accommodate the increase in traffic.

The MXG Waste Transfer Station will be used to transfer waste collected from refuse collection vehicles onto bigger vehicles for onward disposal. The use of bigger vehicles helps to reduce carbon dioxide levels as fewer vehicles are needed to transport the waste.

It is anticipated that approximately 57 HGVs and up to 14 staff vehicles will visit the site each day; a total of 142 daily vehicle movements, of which 114 will be HGV movements. This will increase traffic by approximately 52 vehicles per day when compared with existing operations on the site, but is an increase of just 1.4% in the number of vehicle movements per day along Mansfield Road, which will have no noticeable impact on the local road network.

The existing access from Mansfield Road will be used to access the site and all HGVs associated with the site will follow designated routes, which will be agreed with Derbyshire County Council. A routeing agreement will ensure that no waste vehicles, other than local Refuse Collection Vehicles serving a small area of Hasland, will travel through Hasland Village along Mansfield Road. All additional waste vehicles accessing the site will be routed via the A617 and the B6425 Hassocky Lane.

Before leaving the site, all vehicles will be checked and will be followed by a road sweeper to ensure that any mud is removed from the road. Vehicles will also be covered to prevent any waste falling onto the road.

Odour

The Air Quality Assessment, which has been submitted alongside the planning application, outlines the mitigation measures that will be in place to control odour and shows that local air quality will be protected both during construction and then operation.

All municipal waste will be handled and stored inside the existing Waste Transfer Station building, which is located to the north of the site, further away from residential properties along Mansfield Road.

To help prevent odours, waste delivered to the building will be loaded onto bulker trucks for onward transportation within 24 hour, but usually within a few hours of arriving at the site. A high standard of housekeeping on the site will also help to minimise odours.

Air Quality

The Air Quality Assessment shows that the Waste Transfer Station is unlikely to affect local air quality during construction or operation. The Assessment, which has been submitted alongside the planning application, assessed the potential impacts on local air quality during the construction and operation of the diversified Waste Transfer Station.

The facility has been designed to manage any dust generated during the operation of the facility, including the enclosure of all Municipal Solid Waste within the building, the containment of waste in steel sealed containers, the provision of a concrete surface across the site and the adoption of good housekeeping measures.

These good housekeeping measures include sheeting of vehicles, avoiding the dispersal of litter, the removal and bagging of any spilled materials, the covering of stockpiled building and demolition waste with sheeting, the dampening down of potentially dusty areas, road sweeping and the immediate stopping of operations should dust emissions from the use of equipment on the site be visible outside the site boundary.

Noise

The Noise Assessment, which has been submitted alongside the planning application, concludes that noise due to the upgrade will not be significant.

The facility has been designed to minimise noise and all handling of waste will take place inside enclosed buildings. There will be no waste processing or sorting machinery on the site. The planning permission needed to upgrade the Waste Transfer Station will set strict limits for noise to ensure that the facility has no unacceptable impact on local people.

Operating hours of the facility

Deliveries to the facility will only take place:

Monday – Friday:
7am – 5pm
Saturday:
7am – 1pm
Sunday:
7am – 9am*

*Deliveries on a Sunday in a week that has a Bank, Public or National Holiday (except Christmas Day and Boxing Day). These hours for the delivery of waste are prescribed by the Councils as part of the Contract.

Compared with current permitted working hours, from Monday to Friday there will be an earlier start by half an hour on weekdays. At weekends there will be an earlier start by half an hour on Saturdays, and occasional operations for a brief period in the morning on some Sundays.

Environmental permit

Before the upgraded facility can be operated, planning permission is required from Derbyshire County Council and a variation to the existing waste management license is required from the Environment Agency. These will only be granted if both the Council and the Environment Agency can be satisfied that the proposed facility can operate without adverse impacts on people and the environment.

Timescales

It is anticipated that Corbriggs will be open from late summer 2011.

Publications

RRS has produced a number of publications which give more information about Corbriggs.

Please click here to download the first newsletter for Corbriggs

Please click here to download the second newsletter for Corbriggs

Please click here to download the information pack for Corbriggs

Please click here to download the Stakeholder Engagement Report for Corbriggs

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