A PLANNING application has been submitted for a new energy from waste combined heat and power facility.

UK-based MVV Environment Ltd, which specialises in waste management and renewable energy generation, have submitted the plans for the facility at the Canford Resource Park.

The site, off Magna Road, Poole, is already an active waste management site, which includes closed landfill and waste processing facilities.

The new waste combined heat and power (EfW CHP) facility will process 260,000 tonnes of waste per year and it will be carbon capture retrofit ready (CCRR).

The main purpose of the facility would be to treat household residual waste and similar commercial and industrial waste from the BCP Council area that otherwise would be landfilled or exported to another facility either in the UK or Europe.

The facility would generate 31 megawatts electric (gross) of electricity, MVV says.

The majority, around 28.5MW, will be available for export to the National Grid.

Subject to commercial contracts, the facility will also be able to export heat (hot water) and electricity to businesses in Magna Business Park.

Household waste collected by both BCP and Dorset Councils is already treated at Canford Resource Park, with a very high proportion of it taken back off site for final disposal.

A scoping opinion request was submitted to BCP Council last year. This saw responses provided to offer a basis for the application and the environmental issues that need to be considered.

The company held a number of public consultation exhibitions on the project last year, at The Hamworthy Club in Canford Magna and at Bearwood Community Centre in Bearwood.

After taking into account the comments and feedback received at the exhibitions, MVV has now submitted a full planning application.

Paul Carey, managing director of the company, said: “MVV believes their proposals will provide a more sustainable solution for the management of the region’s residual waste, turning it into useful energy, some of which can be used locally.

“We look forward to discussing our planning application with the community.”

The full application can be viewed on the BCP Council planning portal.