Belvedere, Changes to Riverside Energy Park Order 2020

RIVERSIDE ENERGY PARK LIMITED
SECTION 153 OF THE PLANNING ACT 2008 AND REGULATION 6 OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING (CHANGES TO, AND REVOCATION OF, DEVELOPMENT CONSENT ORDERS) REGULATIONS 2011
NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO MAKE A NON-MATERIAL CHANGE TO THE FOLLOWING DEVELOPMENT CONSENT ORDER: THE RIVERSIDE ENERGY PARK ORDER 2020 (SI 2020/419) AS CORRECTED BY THE RIVERSIDE ENERGY PARK (CORRECTION) ORDER 2021 (SI 2021/273)

Notice is hereby given that an application has been made by Riverside Energy Park Limited ("REPL") (company number 11536739) of Level 5, 10 Dominion Street, London, England, EC2M 2EF to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to make a non-material change to the Riverside Energy Park Order 2020 (as corrected by the Riverside Energy Park (Correction) Order 2021) (the "Order") under the Planning Act 2008 (the "NMC Application").

The Order grants development consent for the construction, operation and maintenance of a new energy recovery facility at Belvedere in the London Borough of Bexley ("REP"), which will comprise an electricity generating station with a capacity of more than 50MW comprising waste energy recovery, waste anaerobic digestion, battery storage, solar generation and associated electrical connection (referred to in the Order as the "authorised development"). REP will be located adjacent to Cory's existing operational facility called Riverside Resource Recovery Facility ("RRRF").

On 15 April 2021 Cory Environmental Holdings Limited submitted an application to the Secretary of State to vary the current section 36 consent for RRRF pursuant to section 36C of the Electricity Act 1989 and to request that the Secretary of State then gives a direction under section 90(2) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 to vary the current planning permission that RRRF operates under ("the ROP Application"). The ROP Application was determined on 17 December 2021 and the direction to vary the current planning permission for RRRF has been given.

A copy of the decision notice for the ROP Application can be accessed free of charge at the website maintained by the Secretary of State: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/energy-infrastructure-development-applications-decisions

Further information on the ROP Application and a copy of the supporting material can be found on the application website: https://www.corygroup.co.uk/media/news-insights/rop-application-2021/

The NMC Application seeks to make a non-material change to the Order, because minor consequential amendments to the Order are required as a result of the ROP Application being granted consent. The amendments are needed to ensure consistency between the Order and the planning permission RRRF will operate under, in order that construction and implementation of the Order does not result in a breach of the conditions contained in the new planning permission for RRRF granted by the Secretary of State under section 90(2) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 as part of the ROP Application. The amendments are required in order that the new RRRF permission is referred to in the Order, as well as the previous permission that RRRF was operating under when the Order was made.

A copy of the NMC Application and its accompanying documents are available for inspection, free of charge, via the Planning Inspectorate's website at the address: Planning Inspectorate website:
https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/projects/london/riverside-energy-park/?ipcsection=docs

Hard copies of the NMC Application will be made available for public inspection at Upper Belvedere Library, Woolwich Road, Upper Belvedere, DA17 5EQ at the following times:
Mondays (excluding bank holidays) 09:30am-5pm
Tuesdays 09:30am-5pm
Fridays 09:30am-5pm
Saturdays 09:30am-2pm

The library can be contacted by email to: upperbelvederelibrary@ecocom.org.uk or by phone on: 01322 838490.

If you require a hard copy of any of the above-mentioned documents (for example because you do not have access to a computer and are unable to view the documents on PINS' website or at the library), you can request hard copies by contacting REPL at info@repconsultation.com or on 0330 838 4254. Each hard copy is available at the cost of £25 per copy.

Any representation about the NMC Application must be made by email to: RiversideEP@planninginspectorate.gov.uk, or in writing to:
National Infrastructure Planning, the Planning Inspectorate, Temple Quay House, 2 The Square, Bristol, BS1 6PN.
Please quote reference Cory - EN010093 on any correspondence. Representations will be made public by the Planning Inspectorate.

Please note that representations must be received by the Planning Inspectorate by 11.59 pm on 16 November 2022.

RIVERSIDE ENERGY PARK LIMITED
5 October 2022