Lynn recycling centre gets green light
RENEWED £1.6million plans to move Lynn's recycling centre to Saddlebow Road, South Lynn, have been approved.
Initial hopes of moving the centre out of Horsleys Field hit a stumbling block when the landowner at the proposed site pulled out of the deal.
But on Friday, Norfolk County Council's planning regulatory committee approved land at the Willows Business Park, Saddlebow Road, for the development – a stone's throw away from the site originally proposed in Poplar Avenue.
The new centre, expected to cost 1.6 to 1.9 million, should still be in place by summer next year and will free up the Horsleys Fields site for the Nar Ouse Regeneration Area, the project to create hundreds of new homes, a business park and associated development.
The relocation may have a beneficial effect on poor air quality around Lynn's London Road and Railway Road by moving traffic away from it, a report before the committee said.
The services at the new centre will be the same as those currently offered at Horsleys Field, catering for everything from green garden waste and paper to waste motor oil. The new site is expected to see up to 900 vehicles per day, the report said.
Instead of the split-level facility which was being planned at Poplar Avenue, the new site will be flat, which the report said, should minimise engineering costs and visual impact.
Members of the public will still be able to deposit waste without the need to climb steps in the main, thanks to 11 new compacting skips, although two timber skips will have steps leading up to them.
Speed limits on the roads leading to the recycling centre from the A47 will be reviewed as part of the council's 2008 traffic management programme after St Germans Parish Council raised concerns.
The new site is set to be open every day except Christmas Day, 8am to 4pm from the end of British Summer Time (BST) in October to March; 8am to 6pm in March; 8am to 8pm April to August; and 8am to 6pm in September to the end of BST in October.
Consideration is being given to including solar panels on the site office, recycling rainwater for use in on-site toilets and a wind turbine, to make the site as green as possible.
The county council also intends to set up a sales area for reuseable second-hand goods brought on to the site and composting equipment.
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