What is an Outline Business Case?
It’s a document which shows what finances, staff, resources and facilities may be needed to effectively manage residual waste. This document then helps the Welsh Assembly Government decide if they agree with our thinking and if they do, they may give funding to help the project.
What’s in the Outline Business Case?
As part of putting together the Outline Business Case, the Project is required to state an approach for managing waste and a site where this could be achieved. This however, is not set in stone and only starts the process of discussion. The site and approach to be used will go out to formal tender in 2010 and any site will be subject to normal planning application processes.
What site has been used in the OBC?
The site identified in the business case is situated on Deeside Industrial Estate in Flintshire. The Project is therefore speaking to local communities around the site to explain the next steps and keep them informed during the process. Residents will be reassured that the decision to situate the residual waste treatment site on the Deeside Industrial Estate has not yet been made. It is the start of an eighteen month process and potential bidders who may build and manage the facility (or facilities) may suggest alternative sites anywhere across North Wales.
What technology is used in the OBC?
The technology suggested in the OBC that could manage residual waste is called Energy-from-Waste (EfW). No decisions have been made on this. Energy-from-Waste is a process whereby the non-recyclable waste is incinerated and the heat and steam this produces is captured. This heat and steam can then used by nearby commercial operations to power their sites. It therefore creates a renewable form of energy that does not rely on extensive use of fossil fuels.
What Happens Next?
If the Welsh Assembly Government approves the OBC, the Project will then be asking bidders to tender to manage and build the residual waste treatment site. As part of this there will be a formal process of consultation, which is likely to take place in the summer of 2010.
The Project will be involving local residents in the consultation process and will work with them to help assess the best means to decide upon the successful bidder.
PROJECT DOCUMENTS
This section contains North Wales Residual Waste Joint Committee meeting papers. These meetings are held quarterly and future papers will be posted after each meeting has been held. The documents are in both Welsh and English.
Outline Business Case
Below is a publicly available version of the draft
Outline Business Case (version 1.2 - November 2009). An updated version
will be available on this site following submission to the Welsh Assembly
Supporting Appendices
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