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Appendix 1Site photographs

Main Existing Building Main Existing BuildingInternal View

Site Entrance

Existing Aggregates Recycling andEnnstone Johnstone Concrete

Batching Plant to rear

View from 3D Model ofproposed development

showing context

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Appendix 2

Orchid Process Description

SEAMLESS WASTE MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS

the process

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receptionIncoming waste is received in a reception area, where it is then fed into a trommel screen, using a front end loader or grab crane. The trommeloversize is then fed onto an inspection belt, where miscellaneous items are removed before shredding. Undersize from the trommel is added tothe shredded oversize and mixed into a homogenised stockpile, to provide the quality and consistency of the waste input.

patented process treatmentMaterial from the homogenised stockpile, is fed into the wet feed prep drum, which prepares the material for processing through the waste processor, at the end of which, a mix of sanitised recyclables and an unrefined biomass fuel product, are produced for further treatment and refinement.

stage:02

patented density separationMaterial from the waste processor passes through the trommel screen,with the oversize going to the recycling area, where traditional materialshandling processes separate out clean and sanitised recyclables. The undersize then goes to a finger screen after extracting both ferrousand non ferrous metals. The screen oversize is then passed through agranulator before re-joining the screen undersize, where it is passedthrough to the biomass density separation and blending plant, to producea range of consistent quality biomass fuel products, each designed tomeet exact end user requirements. If required the products are pelletisedto provide handling, storage and transport benefits to the customer.

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advanced process solutionsOrchid’s unique processing solution is both highly flexible and totally modular and can also incorporate other technologies and processes, tofurther add value to the recovered resources.

This could include the integration of advanced conversion technologies, to produce combustible gases, clean electricity and green heat. In addition it could also include process variants for different wastes, production of new construction aggregates and the separation of plasticsfor further processing.

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ORCHID has many years experience in process

engineering and design across a range of industries and

bulk solids applications and has applied this proven

process technology into the waste sector where it

provides innovative solutions through the design, build

and operation of superior waste management facilities.

Orchid has developed a simple yet effective process

technology employing ‘Mechanical Heat Treatment’

(MHT), for the processing of ‘Municipal Solid Waste’

(MSW) and ‘Selective Commercial Waste’ (SCW).

This patented process is designed to achieve the

Government’s landfill diversion and recycling targets,

through the recovery of clean and sanitised recyclables,

and the conversion of the diverted MSW biodegradable

fraction into firstly a base product for the formulation of

refined biomass products.

In order to meet increasingly stringent market

requirements for bespoke biomass fuel specifications

from such base products, Orchid has developed and

patented a unique ‘Biomass Density Separator’ that

uniquely has the control and flexibility to produce a

range of consistent quality biomass products to exact

client specifications suitable for use as fuel products for:

The power generation industry•The production of combustible gas from advanced•

conversion technologies such as gasification or pyrolysis

A range of industrial boilers•(in selected cement kilns and paper mills)

CHP plants or biomass power stations•The Orchid process recovers approximately 85% of

resources from the input waste, which in environmental

terms is a major step forward from reliance solely on

landfill or incineration, and thus potentially provides a

much better and cleaner environment for future

generations with less wasted resources.

process benefits

•Reception Area

•Front Wheel Loader

•Trommel

•Inspection Belt

•Shredder

•Homogenised Stockpile

•Grab Crane

•Wet Feed Prep Drum

•Orchid Processor

•Emission Control Equipment

•Trommel

•Metal Separation

•Classifier / Separator

•Screen and Granulator

•Orchid Density Separator

•Imported Products

•Blending and Pelletising

•Consistency of Input

•No Incineration

•Cost Efficient

•Consistency of Output Products

•Range of Refined Outputs

•Low Emissions

•Continuous Process

•Non Pressurised System

•High Quality Recyclables

•Biomass Density Separation

•Bespoke Products

•Modular Design

unique patented process

process benefits

Input Waste Processes Technologies Products Markets

Orchid’s Process Solution to the growing problem of effectively managing and disposing of household and selective commercial waste is to:

•Introduce proven and experienced mineral processing and materials

handling technologies into the waste industry, incorporating Orchid’s unique

mass balance processing and control software programmes

•Use Orchid’s patented proven full size modular plant to prepare, treat and

sanitise the waste to recover clean recyclables and produce a range of

unrefined biomass products from the residual biodegradable material

•Use Orchid patented proven biomass density separator to refine, clean and

separate the biomass products into a range of bespoke products by blending

with other waste or biomass products suitable to produce a consistent

high quality fuel products that meet precise end user specifications

•Obtain customer product specifications and market requirements before

finalising the design of the process plant, allowing for some flexibility in the

process to accommodate market changes

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Market Place, Adlington, Lancashire. PR7 4EZ, ENGLAND

Tel: +44 (0) 1257 484000 Fax: +44 (0) 1257 483312Web: www.orchid-environmental.co.uk

•Waste Disposal Authorities

•Waste Operators

•Connectable Technologies

•End User Market Products

•Government Development Schemes

•Joint Venture Partner Companies

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Appendix 3

Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment

Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment for Renewable Energy Fuel Production and Recycling Facility

at Gretton Brook Road, Corby for Shore Energy

1. Development Description

1.1. This application seeks to utilise the existing industrial building, together with a new extension on the area occupied by the inert waste recycling operations, within which it is intended to construct plant and equipment to manage mixed residual municipal and commercial waste to produce a renewable fuel and various materials for recycling

1.2. The existing building has a footprint of approximately 2,250m2, and the new build 5,040m2. The existing building has a main eaves height of 13.5m, and ridgeline of 17m. The proposed new structure will be largely 18m to the ridge, with a small proportion 21m. A stack will be required for exhaust gases of 25m in height. (See drawing 2066-0000-010) Externally the plant will be clad in profiled steel sheeting and be of a colour to be agreed with the planning authority. The roof will be fitted with translucent panels to allow natural daylight into the building.

1.3. Traffic to service the plant, and three weighbridges and their associated offices, will be

the only activity external to the building. Service traffic will access the plant from Gretton Brook Road, arriving from the west where it connects to Phoenix Parkway.

1.4. Emissions from the plant will only consist of exhaust gases from the stack; these will be largely invisible.

2. Site

2.1. The application site is on the Gretton Brook Industrial Estate, formerly known as the Universal Salvage site, and originally used for the maintenance of grab lines used in the ironstone extraction process.

2.2. The industrial estate is home to various manufacturing and industrial activities, including Ennstone Johnston’s tarmac and concrete batching plant, an aggregates recycling facility, large industrial machinery workshops, roofing manufacturers and various vehicle maintenance operations. It has several substantial buildings and structures (Ennstone’s stack reaching ~27m, and plant tower ~24m, and the main Westminster Tools building 17m)

2.3. The entire industrial estate is surfaced in hardcore or concrete, with no vegetation present within the boundaries, which are clearly defined. Access to the estate is through a single gateway, in the south eastern corner. The proposed development will use the Westminster Tools building and land immediately to the south for the new building, the two occupying the majority of the central area of the estate.

2.4. The boundaries of the estate, save for the main access, are defined by earth bunds/banks of between two and five metres in height, all topped by mature trees, ranging in height from ten to twenty metres, and densely spaced.

Mrs Gill Pawson BSc MA MRTPI MCIWM GP Planning Limited Registered Number 6019666, England

Registered Office Mill House, Long Lane, East Haddon, Northamptonshire, NN6 8DU

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3. Surroundings

3.1. The estate sits at the southern centre of Brookfield Plantation, a broadly coniferous restoration of land worked for ironstone. This surrounds the estate on its east and west flanks, and to the north. To the southern edge of the estate runs Gretton Brook Road, with substantial mature trees of approximately 10-15m (above road) in height, densely planted between the estate and road. The land rises generally to the north and south. See Figure 5 for an aerial view of the site.

Figure 1 View from Gretton Brook Road of Distribution Centre Figure 2 View from Gretton Brook Road of typical mature planting between road and the industrial estate

Figure 3 Vehicle leaving site entrance on Gretton Brook Road

Figure 4 Power Station from Gretton Brook Road

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3.2. To the south west of the site, on the southern side of Gretton Brook Road, lies Corby gas fired power station, with its chimneys rising to an approximate height of 65m . To the south of the industrial estate, and east of the power station, lies the newly erected distribution centre. The building occupies a floor area of approximately 49,300 m, with a parapet height of 16 metres, the floor level being 3-4 metres above the Gretton Brook Industrial Estate.

3.3. As a comparison, other notable local features of large scale include the Morrison’s freezer warehouse, Birchington Road, at 19 metres high; RS Components, Birchington Road, 25 metres high, and Rockingham Motor Speedway (RMS) southern stand, (lying to the east) at 22 metres. The flour mill immediately south of the Gretton Brook Road/Phoenix Parkway junction is over 35m in height, and considerably greater in bulk than the proposed development. Consequently, it can be seen that the area is already characterised by large commercial buildings or structures. In the immediate vicinity of the application site the landscape is dominated by the Corby power station, and the recently constructed major distribution warehouse, and generally its scale is fitting.

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Figure 5. Aerial view (note this is for information only as the image is circa 2003) The application site is edged in red.

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4. Receptors and Views

4.1. As discussed above, the site is surrounded, and very effectively screened by, the established tree planting, and landform. As a consequence views are only available from an extremely limited number of points. The two principal locations are detailed below. See Figure 5 for their locations.

4.2. Viewpoint 1 The primary available viewpoint, (Viewpoint 1 on Figure 5) is from the entrance to the Gretton Brook Industrial Estate, from the road. The view is fleeting, and available only to passing traffic on this de-restricted road. There is no pedestrian footway or cycle lane, so motorists are the only potential receptor of visual impact. The building is unobtrusive as it is in keeping with its surroundings. The views are considered of minimal impact; the photograph and montage below show the views, before and after development.

Figure 6. Existing view

Figure 7. Proposed Development

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4.3. Viewpoint 2 A secondary viewpoint (Viewpoint 2, Figure 1) is from the access to the new distribution centre off Mitchell Road. This view is available to traffic entering the site, and should be taken in the context of the power station on the left (Figure 10) and warehouse on the right (Figure 11). As such the available view of the site constitutes a tiny proportion of the available vista.

Ennstone Johnstone Concrete Plant

Figure 8 Existing View

Application Site

Figure 9 Proposed View

Figure 10

Power station Figure 11

Distribution Building

4.4. Prior to construction of the distribution centre, users of Mitchell Road would have had a view to the top of the application site (similar in depth to that available at viewpoint 2), but the erection of the building has entirely blocked this view.

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5. Other Potential Receptors.

5.1. No footpaths or bridleways run near the site, other than that through the Brookfield Plantation (see Figure 5), the mature trees within which entirely obscure any view of the site and the proposal. No public access is available to the surrounding woodland.

5.2. Views will not be available from Gretton or the road to it. Although the existing Corby power station chimneys are visible from the Corby-Gretton Road, they are over 40 metres higher than the proposed highest point (stack) of the building proposed in the planning application. The proposed building and stack will remain screened (as per the lower two thirds of the Corby power station chimneys) by the trees of Brookfield Plantation and the landform which lies between the village and the proposed development.

5.3. See Figure 12 for the clearest available view looking from the Corby-Gretton road, showing that only the tops of the existing 65m Corby power station chimneys are visible. As such the proposed plant’s 25m stack will remain well below the level of screening provided by the plantation.

Figure 12 View from Gretton-Corby Road

5.4. See Figure 13 for an illustration of the cross sectional view from Gretton to Gretton

Brook Industrial Estate and Corby power station, which demonstrates the way in which landform and trees completely screen the proposals site from Gretton and the road to it.

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Figure 13 Cross section and Map

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6. Conclusions

6.1. Although the proposed development will be visible from two locations, both of which

are vehicular accesses to existing industrial sites, this report has shown that neither is detrimentally affected.

6.2. In the case of the view available from Gretton Brook Road, sight of the building will be fleeting and therefore of little impact. Compared to the available views of the speedway stands and the distribution centre from the same road, the view is of minimal significance, being located in an industrial setting and well shielded from its surroundings.

6.3. The second viewpoint, from the access to the distribution centre, will allow views that constitute a very small proportion of the available vista, which is dominated by the distribution centre and power station.

6.4. The character of the landscape will not be changed by the development. The nature of the landscape is such that there are deemed to be no significant sensitive landscape receptors.

6.5. The visual impact has been assessed from public viewpoints principally along Mitchell Road, Gretton Brook Road, Gretton village, the Gretton to Corby Road and the public footpath through Brookfield Plantation. From these vantage points, the visual impact is limited due to distance, intermediate screening by buildings, landform, and/or vegetation. The proposed development will have an impact on views from the access off Mitchell Road to the south, and on traffic on Gretton Brook Road, but in the existing industrial context, and given the screening effect of landform and vegetation, the impact will be limited and the overall character of the view will be retained.