Family-run waste firm wants to build heat and power plant in North Yorkshire

Allium Energy, which is run by FD Todd and Sons, has lodged an application with North Yorkshire County Council to build a 42m by 25m building at Alne Electricity Generating Plant, near Easingwold, for the generation and export of up to 1MW of electricity and 5MW of renewable heat.

While the Forest Lane site is rural, over the past 15 years, it has evolved as a renewable energy facility and immediately to the north of the site lies the Alne Renewable Energy Facility, providing up to 5MW of renewable energy generated by a gas engine and biomass boiler beyond.

The application documents highlight how immediately to the east of the application site lies a former landfill area, which is “subject to a scheme of containment and restoration” to a deciduous woodland and energy crop, and to the south lies the former York Recycling materials recovery facility.

Planning permission has recently been granted to Forest Poultry Ltd to build agricultural buildings for poultry production on land about 850m to the south west.

A spokesman for Alne Parish Council said after a tour of the site and examining the proposed facilities “it was clear that there is no intention to burn poultry litter at the plant” and therefore the council had no objections to the proposal, provided a condition to that effect was included.

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