The Rookery South (Resource Recovery Facility) Order 2011

In Central Bedfordshire

• A nationally significant infrastructure project as defined in sections 14(1)(a) and 15 of the 2008 Act comprising:

• Work No. 1 An electricity generating station with a nominal gross electrical output capacity of 65 MWe fuelled by waste and including—

  (a)

  three waste processing streams each comprising a reciprocating grate, furnace, boiler and associated air pollution control system;

  (b)

  transformer compound;

  (c)

  an administration building;

  (d)

  a tipping hall;

  (e)

  refuse bunkering;

  (f)

  a flue gas treatment facility;

  (g)

  flues or stack;

  (h)

  turbines and turbine hall;

  (i)

  air cooled condensers;

  (j)

  a facility to enable steam pass-outs and/or hot water pass-outs; and

  (k)

  a visitor centre/education facility; and

  associated development within the meaning of section 115(2) of the Act comprising—

• Work No. 2 A post-combustion materials recovery facility for the purpose of treating incinerator bottom ash produced by the electricity generating station comprised in Work No. 1 and including—

  (a)

  a screened ash/aggregate yard;

  (b)

  buildings housing apparatus and necessary plant for separation of co-mingled metals from incinerator bottom ash and grading of such ash;

  (c)

  a separation lagoon;

  (d)

  an administration building;

  (e)

  a weigh bridge; and

  (f)

  a foul water pump house;

• Work No. 3 A drainage channel to be constructed on an east - west alignment linking with a drainage channel to be constructed pursuant to a review of old minerals permissions bearing statutory reference number BC/CM/2000/08;

• Work No. 4 An extension to the attenuation pond to be constructed pursuant to a review of old minerals permissions bearing statutory reference number BC/CM/2000/08;