Sandwell Local Plan - Reg 19 Publication
APPENDIX E - Strategic Waste Sites
The existing strategic sites, identified on the Waste Diagram and listed in the table below, are the most significant waste management facilities operating in Sandwell. They have been identified through a detailed analysis of all known licenced and exempt facilities. Sandwell Council will safeguard all existing strategic and other waste management facilities from inappropriate development, to maintain existing levels of waste management capacity and meet Strategic Objective 13.
Strategic Waste Sites
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Site Ref |
Site |
Operational Capacity (tpa) |
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Municipal Waste Recovery – Supporting Infrastructure |
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WS07 |
Eagle Recovery and Transfer Hub |
140,000 |
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WS08 |
Sandwell HWRC (Shidas Lane) |
20,000 |
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Waste Disposal Installations (1) |
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WS17 |
Edwin Richards Landfill |
250,000 |
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9,171,000[13] |
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Significant Hazardous Waste Treatment Infrastructure |
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WS19 |
Wednesbury Treatment Centre |
40,000 |
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Significant Metal Recycling Sites (MRSs) |
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WS23 |
Alutrade |
24,000 |
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WS24 |
Enablelink |
165,000 |
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WS25 |
ELG CSR Depot (Rowley Regis) [1] |
20,000 |
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WS26 |
EMR Smethwick |
60,000 |
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WS27 |
Sims MRS Smethwick (Rabone Lane) |
200,000 |
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WS28 |
Sims MRS Smethwick (Unit 60 Anne Road) |
20,000 |
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Other Significant Waste Management Infrastructure |
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WS37 |
Bescot LDC, Bescot Sidings |
150,000 |
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WS38 |
Biffa Tipton WTS |
65,000 |
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WS39 |
Midland Waste Treatment |
200,000 |
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WS40 |
Edwin Richards Inert Recycling and Soil Treatment Facility |
75,000 |
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WS41 |
Envira Recycling |
50,000 |
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WS42 |
Giffords Recycling |
20,000 |
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WS43 |
Jayplas |
70,000 |
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WS44 |
Recycle Lives (Cox's Lane) |
25,000 |
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WS46 |
Biffa Waste Management Oldbury |
60,000 |
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WS47 |
Union Road Inert Waste Recycling Facility |
40,000 |
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WS48 |
Wednesbury Aggregates Recycling Facility |
35,000 |
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[1] Operational in 2018 but currently (April 2020) 'mothballed.' |
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Sources: Environment Agency: Waste Data Interrogator (WDI) 2007 – 2018, Operational Incinerators, 2018, Public Register, Remaining Landfill Capacity in England as at end of 2018 Version 2.
Preferred Areas for New Waste Facilities
Several employment areas have been identified in the Black Country Waste Study (BCWS) as being most suited to the development of new waste recovery, treatment and transfer infrastructure. In Sandwell, they are the sites contained in Table 26. Under Policy W3, these areas are considered least likely to give rise to land use conflicts, and in several cases, there is already co-location of existing waste facilities to which new sites would contribute.
Preferred Areas for new Waste Facilities
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Site Ref |
Address |
Potentially Suitable Waste Use [1] |
Area |
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WPSa1 |
Cornwall Road and Parkrose Industrial Estates, Soho |
Energy from waste treatment, in-vessel composting, anaerobic digestion, transfer, recycling |
60.1 |
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WPSa2 |
Tat Bank, Langley |
Energy from waste treatment, in-vessel composting, anaerobic digestion, transfer, recycling |
53.1 |
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WPSa3 |
Charles Street Enterprise Park, Queens Court Trading Estate, Swan Village |
Treatment, in-vessel composting, anaerobic digestion, transfer, recycling |
42.7 |
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WPSa4 |
Hill Top and Bilport Lane Industrial Estates, Wednesbury |
Treatment, in-vessel composting, anaerobic digestion, transfer, recycling |
19.9 |
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WPSa5 |
Powke Lane and Waterfall Lane Trading Estates, Rowley Regis |
Treatment, in-vessel composting, anaerobic digestion, transfer, recycling |
46.1 |
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WPSa6 |
Dartmouth Road |
n/a |
26.2 |
1 As indicated in the Black Country Waste Study, Wood 2020
