ELG Planning have won a further planning appeal acting for  CSG who proposed the facility, which would incinerate 24,000 tonnes of hazardous waste each year, on land on the western boundary of the industrial estate in Grangetown. Redcar and Cleveland Council refused the proposal, but then withdrew its opposition to the scheme during the appeal process.

The appeal proposal would incorporate and extend existing hazardous waste facilities on the site. Wilton International is identified in local policy as being suitable for environmental, recycling and energy projects, and PINS inspector Melvyn Middleton said that Wilton is an “obvious location on which to site a thermal combustion plant whose primary objective is to recycle hazardous waste”.

The reason for refusal cited “too many incinerators in the area when considered with existing and proposed developments,” but Middleton said that there was “no convincing evidence to suggest that this is the case”.

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