News: Local waste project down to two bidders
Two specialist companies are to go forward to the next stage of bidding to plan for and manage the future treatment of leftover household waste in Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham.
They are Sita Lend Lease and 3SE (a consortium of Shanks Group plc and Scottish and Southern Energy Ltd). Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham councils, working together as the BDR Waste Partnership, will now press ahead to the next stage of the procurement of waste treatment facilities.
£77.4m of Private Finance Initiative (PFI) funding has been secured from central government's Waste Infrastructure Development Programme to deliver the development.
Four waste specialist organisations had put forward different proposals to build and run the facility, using a range of different technologiess and a site at Bolton Road, Manvers, is being proposed.
The 3SE partnership will use proven waste treatment technology at the site to produce a renewable and green fuel for use at Scottish and Southern Energy's Ferrybridge site. The "green"' energy produced can then be used by the region's residents and businesses.
plans to utilise the BDR Waste Partnership's Bolton Road site as the location for the Dearne Valley Treatment and Energy Centre (TEC), a high tech recycling and renewable energy plant that will help the partnership deliver UK Government recycling and landfill diversion performance targets.
The shortlisted bidders' proposals will now be further evaluated, before just one is selected later this year as the preferred contractor to take the proposal forward to the pre-planning stage.
BDR Waste Partnership Board Chair Richard Russell said: "It has been a tough decision to take with such high quality and innovative proposals on the table. We will now be looking in more detail at what both bidders are proposing before making a final choice.
"This project is vital to us achieving our aim of reducing the amount we send to landfill. All local authorities must do this - if we don't, we face very heavy fines. At the moment, most of this leftover waste goes to landfill, but landfill sites across the country are almost full, and they produce harmful greenhouses gases which damage the environment.
"We want a solution which will be environmentally friendly. It will also create up to 300 jobs during the construction phase, with up to 80 permanent jobs after that, many of which will be filled by local people.
"However, nothing will go ahead until there has been a full planning application. This means local people will be able to look at the detailed proposals and comment on them."
BDR website
Rotherham
They are Sita Lend Lease and 3SE (a consortium of Shanks Group plc and Scottish and Southern Energy Ltd). Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham councils, working together as the BDR Waste Partnership, will now press ahead to the next stage of the procurement of waste treatment facilities.
£77.4m of Private Finance Initiative (PFI) funding has been secured from central government's Waste Infrastructure Development Programme to deliver the development.
Four waste specialist organisations had put forward different proposals to build and run the facility, using a range of different technologiess and a site at Bolton Road, Manvers, is being proposed.
The 3SE partnership will use proven waste treatment technology at the site to produce a renewable and green fuel for use at Scottish and Southern Energy's Ferrybridge site. The "green"' energy produced can then be used by the region's residents and businesses.
plans to utilise the BDR Waste Partnership's Bolton Road site as the location for the Dearne Valley Treatment and Energy Centre (TEC), a high tech recycling and renewable energy plant that will help the partnership deliver UK Government recycling and landfill diversion performance targets.
The shortlisted bidders' proposals will now be further evaluated, before just one is selected later this year as the preferred contractor to take the proposal forward to the pre-planning stage.
BDR Waste Partnership Board Chair Richard Russell said: "It has been a tough decision to take with such high quality and innovative proposals on the table. We will now be looking in more detail at what both bidders are proposing before making a final choice.
"This project is vital to us achieving our aim of reducing the amount we send to landfill. All local authorities must do this - if we don't, we face very heavy fines. At the moment, most of this leftover waste goes to landfill, but landfill sites across the country are almost full, and they produce harmful greenhouses gases which damage the environment.
"We want a solution which will be environmentally friendly. It will also create up to 300 jobs during the construction phase, with up to 80 permanent jobs after that, many of which will be filled by local people.
"However, nothing will go ahead until there has been a full planning application. This means local people will be able to look at the detailed proposals and comment on them."
BDR website
Rotherham
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