Prior to the implementation of the Environmental Permitting Regulations in 2007, waste disposal and waste recovery operations were regulated under separate legislation. Environment Agency records are therefore split between the two different information systems used. These systems are currently in the process of being integrated.
Five anaerobic digestion plants have been permitted by the Environment Agency in the last five years under waste management licensing regulations.
Site name Year permitted Local authority (unitary or county) Biocycle South Shropshire, Ludlow 2006 Shropshire county council Milton Ernest, Bedfordshire Biogen 2006 Bedfordshire county council Norfolk Environmental Waste Services, Costessey Resource Recovery Park 2008 Norfolk county council/ South Norfolk district council Brookhurst Wood 2009 West Sussex county council Wanlip AD Plant 2009 Leicestershire county council
41 sites that utilise biogases derived from anaerobic digestion under the pollution prevention and control (PPC) regulations have been permitted across England within the last five years. Environment Agency records do not specify the local authority for PPC sites.
Primary name County Permit effective from date 1 Minworth Sewage Treatment Works (STW) West Midlands 6 August 2008 2 Runcorn Waste Water Treatment Works (WWTW) Cheshire 24 October 2007 3 Kew Biothane Plant Surrey 19 August 2008 4 Gatewarth Industrial Estate Cheshire 24 October 2007 5 Liverpool (WWTW) Merseyside 24 October 2007 6 The Causeway Greater Manchester 24 October 2007 7 Ringley Road Greater Manchester 2 March 2009 8 Coney Lane Merseyside 24 October 2007 9 St. Helens (WWTW) Merseyside 24 October 2007 10 Dukinfield (WWTW) Cheshire 14 November 2008 11 Davyhulme WWTW Lancashire 26 February 2009 12 Stockport (WWTW) Cheshire 24 October 2007 13 Bury (WWTW) Lancashire 24 October 2007 14 Tower Brewery North Yorkshire 8 November 2005 15 Minworth (STW) West Midlands 4 October 2007 16 Bunns Bank Norfolk 2 February 2004 17 Millbrook (WWTW) Hampshire 17 October 2008 18 Costessey Resource Recovery Park Norfolk 22 December 2008 19 Rye Meads Combined Heat and Power Plant Hertfordshire 19 December 2006 20 Maple Lodge (STW) Hertfordshire 29 March 2006 21 Deephams (STW) Greater London 19 December 2006 22 Bran Sands Cleveland 14 April 2005 23 Bran Sands Cleveland 29 September 2006 24 Thames House Berkshire 20 December 2006 25 Oxford (STW) Oxfordshire 20 December 2006 26 Reading (STW) Berkshire 19 December 2006 27 Bristol Waste Water Treatment Avon 19 December 2006 28 John Smith's Brewery North Yorkshire 12 March 2008 29 Tower Brewery North Yorkshire 12 March 2008 30 Ainsbury House West Yorkshire 26 November 2008 31 Wanlip (STW) Leicestershire 31 March 2006 32 Strongford (STW) Staffordshire 24 October 2007 33 Crewe (WWTW) Cheshire 21 December 2006 34 Stoke Bardolph (STW) Nottinghamshire 11 October 2007 35 Mogden (STW) Middlesex 19 December 2006 36 United Utilities Water plc, Blackburn (WWTW) Combined Heat and Power Installation Lancashire 17 March 2006 37 Beddington (STW) Surrey 20 December 2006 38 Ellesmere Port (WWTW) Cheshire 21 June 2007 39 Budds Farm (WWTW) Hampshire 15 October 2008 40 Finham (STW) West Midlands 3 October 2007 41 Wanlip (STW) Leicestershire 21 March 2005