SITA Surrey is working with Surrey County Council and Reigate & Banstead Borough Council on proposals to redevelop and extend Reigate and Banstead’s municipal depot on the A23 at Earlswood.

– Reigate & Banstead Borough Council is responsible for collecting recyclables, food waste and rubbish from households in the borough.

– Surrey County Council is responsible for managing the rubbish and other non recyclable waste collected from households in the county.

– SITA Surrey is responsible for operating 15 community recycling centres and four waste transfer and bulking facilities on behalf of Surrey County Council.

We are here today to outline our proposals and listen to your views before we submit a planning application.

Members of our team are here to answer your questions and there are forms to record your comments on the proposals.

Welcome to our exhibition

Artist’s impression of an aerial view of the redevelopment from the north west

The proposal is part of a joint commitment by Surrey’s councils to work together to reduce the impact of the county’s waste on the environment. This includes a target of 70% recycling.

The current facility at the depot that receives Reigate and Banstead’s recyclable materials has limited space. The borough’s household recycling rate has increased from 37% to 50% since the introduction of its new household waste and recycling service last year and is predicted to rise further. More capacity is needed to manage current and future increases in household recycling.

In addition, the borough’s food waste and rubbish are currently taken to local third party sites for bulking. The rubbish is then taken to Kent for energy recovery or to a landfill at Redhill. Recyclables, food waste and rubbish from households in neighbouring Tandridge are taken to a third party bulking facility in Kent.

The redeveloped facility at Earlswood would provide space to handle the full range of materials collected from local households in one location.

background

Tandridge District Council collection truck Reigate & Banstead Borough Council collection truck

Bays inside a bulking facility

Operations inside a bulking facility

Transfer and bulking facilities

Proposed materials bulking facility

Blenheim Road,Epsom

Randalls Road,Leatherhead

Moorfield Road, Guildford

Charlton Lane, Shepperton

Horley Road, Earlswood

The materials bulking facility proposed for Earlswood would be one of a network around Surrey that handle recyclables, food waste and rubbish collected from households across the county.

The existing facilities at Epsom, Sunbury-on-Thames, Guildford and Leatherhead each handle materials collected from several local authorities.

Most of the materials collected from Reigate and Banstead and Tandridge are currently sent to facilities outside Surrey County Council’s network. The redeveloped facility at the Earlswood depot would provide a dedicated facility for the two areas, giving greater control and certainty over the cost of managing rubbish both now and in the future and allowing it to be diverted from landfill. It would also maximise the value obtained for recyclable materials by bulking them into larger loads.

context

Map of county showing locations of the four existing transfer and bulking facilities

There are two main elements to the proposal:

A new materials bulking facility (MBF)

The new MBF would consist of an enclosed building and a small number of outside bays. Collection vehicles would drive into the building and tip their loads of recyclables, food waste and rubbish into individual bays for each type of material. The empty vehicles would then exit the building and either continue with their collection rounds or return to their depots to park.

Larger vehicles would collect the materials and take them to specialist processing or treatment facilities. These vehicles would drive into a dedicated loading tunnel on the side of the building, where the materials would be loaded.

Improved depot facilities

Reigate & Banstead Borough Council’s current depot facilities would be enhanced by the addition of a new fleet parking area with a purpose built welfare facility and fleet office.

the ProPosal

Site plan

Environment

– The facility would only accept recyclables and general waste from households in Reigate and Banstead and Tandridge

– No processing or treatment would take place at the facility

– The facility would operate to an environmental permit and planning permission that would include conditions to protect the local environment

Odour

– Food waste and rubbish would be handled and stored within the MBF building with the small number of outside bays reserved for materials suitable for external storage such as street sweepings

– Food waste would only be stored for a limited period before being taken for treatment

– The facility would be carefully managed to minimise any potential for odour and would operate under an odour management plan

Landscape and visual impact

– The MBF building would be located to the rear of the site, set back from the A23 and would be largely screened from the homes to the south by existing trees and planting

– The design of the building includes partial wood cladding to help it blend with its surroundings

Noise

– Potentially noisy activities would take place within the MBF building, with outdoor activities limited to the outside bays located behind the main building, away from the homes to the south

– An acoustic tunnel at the south of the MBF building around the entrance would reduce any noise from the operations inside

– The facility’s hours of operation would be set by the planning conditions; we propose to use the same operating hours as the depot, 6am – 6.30pm on weekdays and 6am – 2pm on weekends and bank holidays

Protecting the local environment

Partial wood cladding

Acoustic tunnel

Overview of existing HGV traffic – Reigate and Banstead’s fleet of collection vehicles are based at the depot and some recyclable materials

collected from households are tipped at the site

– Some of these vehicles also travel to other local facilities to tip their loads of food waste and rubbish

– Bulk heavy goods vehicles visit the depot to collect recyclable materials

– Peak traffic hours on the A23 are 8am to 9am and 5pm to 6pm

Overview of proposed HGV traffic – Reigate and Banstead collection vehicles would tip all of their load at the MBF and no longer need to travel

to other facilities

– Tandridge collection vehicles would travel to the facility via the A25 or the A264

– The MBF would use the existing depot entrance off the A23

– The weighbridge would be moved to the centre of the site to provide room for on-site traffic queuing if required

– Our draft traffic assessment predicts some additional HGV traffic for the MBF:

– 34 household waste and recycling collection vehicles per day

– 17 bulk heavy goods vehicles per day

– The additional traffic would be predominantly outside of peak times on the A23, as household collection rounds start around 6am and finish by around 2pm

– Our draft traffic assessment shows that the MBF would not cause additional peak traffic on the A23 and there would be no significant impacts on the local road network or junctions

traffic

Site context and vehicle routes

Thank you for coming along to our drop in sessions.

We welcome your feedback and invite you to complete a comments form and place it in the box provided. We will consider all comments received as we develop our proposals in further detail and complete our technical assessments.

We will summarise your feedback and our response to this, in a report that we will submit with our planning application.

If you have any questions, please speak to a member of the team here today who will be happy to help.

next stePs

Summer 2013

Winter 2013/14

Spring 2014

Winter 2014

Early 2015

Submit planning application

Planning application determined

Construction works start on site

Construction works complete

Facility opens

Indicative timetable

Artist’s impression of an aerial view of the redevelopment from the south west