Environment Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered am ar 7 Ebrill 2010.
Nick Herbert
Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which energy-from-waste facilities of each type received planning permission in the last three years; and what the location was of each.
John Healey
The Minister for Housing
holding answer
I have been asked to reply.
The total numbers of planning decisions (including permissions and refusals) for England relating to applications for waste facilities that may include energy recovery are published in table 3.4 of the Statistical Release on Annual Development Control, England, 2008-09. This is available on the Communities and Local Government website at:
http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/corporate/statistics/developmentcontrol200809
The following table provides a further breakdown for most recent available year, 2008-09, showing the numbers of applications granted and the location of each of these applications by local planning authority. These figures are as reported by local planning authorities to Communities and Local Government.
| Application Type | LA name | Number of applications granted in 2008-09 |
| Incineration with energy recovery | - | 12 |
| Bedfordshire | 1 | |
| Devon | 1 | |
| Hampshire | 1 | |
| Herefordshire | 1 | |
| Kingston upon Hull | 1 | |
| London Thames Gateway Development Corporation | 1 | |
| North Lincolnshire | 1 | |
| Northamptonshire | 2 | |
| Nottinghamshire | 1 | |
| Shropshire | 1 | |
| West Berkshire | 1 | |
| Anaerobic digestion | - | 12 |
| Bedfordshire | 1 | |
| Devon | 2 | |
| Durham | 1 | |
| Northamptonshire | 5 | |
| Oxfordshire | 2 | |
| West Sussex | 1 | |
| Pyrolysis | - | 3 |
| Bedfordshire | 1 | |
| North Yorkshire | 1 | |
| Wiltshire | 1 | |
| Total | - | 27 |
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