Draft Regulation 18 Sandwell Local Plan

Ended on the 18 December 2023

(1) APPENDIX E - Strategic Waste Sites

The existing strategic sites, identified on the Waste Diagram and listed in the table below, are the significant waste management facilities operating in the Black Country. They have been identified through a detailed analysis of all known licenced and exempt facilities in each authority area. 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

Site Ref

Site

Operational Capacity (tpa)

Municipal Waste Recovery – Supporting Infrastructure

WS07

Eagle Recovery and Transfer Hub

140,000

WS08

Sandwell HWRC (Shidas Lane)

20,000

Waste Disposal Installations (1)

WS17

Edwin Richards Landfill

250,000

9,171,000[1]

Significant Hazardous Waste Treatment Infrastructure

WS19

Wednesbury Treatment Centre

40,000

Significant Metal Recycling Sites (MRSs)

WS23

Alutrade

24,000

WS24

Cradley Metal Recycling Centre

165,000

WS25

ELG CSR Depot (Rowley Regis) [1]

20,000

WS26

EMR Smethwick

60,000

WS27

Sims MRS Smethwick (Rabone Lane)

200,000

WS28

Sims MRS Smethwick (Unit 60 Anne Road)

20,000

Other Significant Waste Management Infrastructure

WS36

Arrow Recycling

22,000

WS37

Bescot LDC, Bescot Sidings

150,000

WS38

Biffa Tipton WTS

65,000

WS39

Bull Lane Works WTS

200,000

WS40

Edwin Richards Inert Recycling and Soil Treatment Facility

75,000

WS41

Envira Recycling

50,000

WS42

Giffords Recycling

20,000

WS43

Jayplas

70,000

WS44

Metal & Waste Recycling (Cox's Lane)

25,000

WS45

ELG CSR Depot

75,000

WS46

Trinity Street MRF

60,000

WS47

Union Road Inert Waste Recycling Facility

40,000

WS48

Wednesbury Aggregates Recycling Facility

35,000

[1] Operational in 2018 but currently (April 2020) 'mothballed.'

Preferred Areas for New Waste Facilities

  1. 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

Site Ref

Address

Potentially Suitable Waste Use[1]

Area

WPSa1

Cornwall Road and Parkrose Industrial Estates, Soho

Energy from waste treatment, in-vessel composting, anaerobic digestion, transfer, recycling

60.1

WPSa2

Tat Bank, Langley

Energy from waste treatment, in-vessel composting, anaerobic digestion, transfer, recycling

53.1

WPSa3

Charles Street Enterprise Park, Queens Court Trading Estate, Swan Village

Treatment, in-vessel composting, anaerobic digestion, transfer, recycling

42.7

WPSa4

Hill Top and Bilport Lane Industrial Estates, Wednesbury

Treatment, in-vessel composting, anaerobic digestion, transfer, recycling

19.9

WPSa5

Powke Lane and Waterfall Lane Trading Estates, Rowley Regis

Treatment, in-vessel composting, anaerobic digestion, transfer, recycling

46.1

WPSa6

Dartmouth Road

n/a

26.2

1 As indicated in the Black Country Waste Study, Wood 2020

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