A site close to Kings Lynn has been provided by Norfolk County Council for the location of a waste treatment plant.
Norfolk County Council also intends to present a Outline Business Case by the end of the month to the government in order to obtain 72.4 million pounds which is what is needed to meet fifty per cent of the budget for the planned waste facility.
The project, which is referred to as Contract B, is planned to have an annual processing capacity of close to two hundred thousand tonnes of residual household waste. It is expected to be operating by the year 2013.
The site near Kings Lynn at Saddlebow Industrial Estate is near the new Palm Paper mill which is presently being built.
A cabinet member for environment and waste, Ian Monson, disclosed that they would provide the industrial estate in Kings Lynn to the parties interested in the Contract B project but the bidders were also free to opt for a site of their own. Mr. Monson added that the waste treatment technology they would go for was going to be decided later on.
Potential bidders for the Contract B project have already held deliberations with Norfolk County Council and it is understood that three of them would implement autoclaving technology, three others would implement energy-from-waste incineration and five others would go for mechanical biological treatment technology.
If Norfolk County Council gets the nod for the financing of the project, tenders would be invited this autumn through an advertisement in the Official Journal of the European Union.
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