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Land adjacent to Willshee's Waste And Recycling Limited, Keith Willshee Way, Swadlincote, DE11 9EN

CW9/1022/22EIA (Waste)Refused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 6 September 2024

Planning committee

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

The proposed construction and operation of the Swadlincote Resource Recovery Park (SRRP) comprising an Energy Recovery Facility (ERF) and Aggregate Recovery Facility (ARF) together with ancillary infrastructure including grid connection cable and works, private electrical wire provision, substation, CHP off-take provision, internal vehicular circulation and yard areas, weighbridges, car parking, new access road, temporary construction compound and laydown area, security fencing and gates, drainage, landscaping and off-site habitat compensation.

Received
4 October 2022
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Linton, Swadlincote South, Swadlincote North
  1. Received4 Oct
  2. Validated31 Oct
  3. Consult.24 Aug
  4. Target
  5. Decided6 Sep

Decided in 676 days (council typically 28)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land adjacent to Willshee's Waste And Recycling Limited, Keith Willshee Way, Swadlincote, DE11 9EN. Derbyshire has handled 5 applications of this type. This one was decided in 703 days, 96 weeks longer than Derbyshire's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. We hold 622 applications in total for the DE11 postcode area.

95% of all applications at Derbyshire County Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 4 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
DE11 9EN
Application type
EIA (Waste)
Scale / size
Large
Parish
Castle Gresley, Cauldwell
District
South Derbyshire

Planning application dates

Date validated
31 October 2022
Consultation expiry
9 September 2024
Consultation end
24 August 2024
Committee meeting
9 September 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Aardvark EM Ltd, Higher Ford, Wiveliscombe, Taunton, TA4 2RL

Publicity

Site notice end
9 September 2024

Appeal history

3354670
Allowed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: InquiryDecision: 4 August 2025Dev Type: Other Major DevelopmentsReason: Refusal

Additional information

Documents
745

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves and heritage coasts.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Derbyshire

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