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Dear Councillors, RE: ESS/36/17/BTE & ESS/37/17/BTE – Rivenhall IWMF Listed for Planning Committee on Friday 26 April 2019 I write on behalf of Gent Fairhead & Company Ltd, the Applicant in the current planning application. The Applicant, in light of the Principal Planning Officer’s Recommendation to Refuse as dated...

We have noted the recommendation from the Planning Officer to members of Essex County Council Planning Committee. We believe this recommendation and the decision to take the application to committee in April to be premature for a number of reasons: We have undertaken public engagement and...

Our battle with recycling is ongoing and finding solutions to increasing waste levels that can be converted into recycling rather than being disposed of in landfill, is the main target. With China’s plastic ban and the limited recycling and treatment capacity for plastics, the European...

Gent Fairhead and Indaver have submitted further information to Essex County Council in support of their revised planning application for the IWMF. Industry experts forecast that there will be a residual waste capacity shortfall particularly in the South East. The Government’s new Resource & Waste Strategy...

January 2019    What are we contacting you about?   In our last public briefing note (October 2018) we informed you that we had received an application from Gent Fairhead & Co. Ltd (‘the company’) requesting a variation to the company's environmental permit for the Rivenhall Integrated Waste Management...

"Our role at the Environment Agency is to protect and enhance the environment. We would not permit any operation that we know would cause harm to the environment or people’s health. We assess permit applications (including variations) thoroughly to make sure that all aspects that...