Planning Granted in ten weeks from first submission. A record.
30 October 2008
A joint venture between Growing Beds Ltd and Bioflame was yesterday granted full planning permission by Bedfordshire CC to build a 20,000MW per year renewable energy power station.
A joint venture between Growing Beds Ltd at Twindwood Business Park, Thurleigh, and Bioflame was yesterday granted full planning permission by delegated powers of the planning officers at Bedfordshire County Council to build a 20,000MW per year renewable energy power station at that site. After a few weeks of final contract negotiation, orders will be placed to get the contract rolling. The plant is expected to ready to generate with 14 months of that event and will produce enough electricity to supply at least 4500 homes. In addition the new Joint Venture company called Twinwoods Heat & Power Ltd (THPL) is in negotiations with a different tenant on the site to supply waste heat from the plant.
THPL would like to thank the planning officers at Beds CC for recording the fastest planning permission ever applied for by Bioflame. On the face of it the site, which sits at the convergence of five different Parish Councils, might have been considered a tricky one to achieve planning on. A combination of rapid information flow between the planners and Bioflame and the Parish Councils and the fact that the planners and a representative of each of the five PCs visited the company's working plant in Yorkshire, put paid to any fears that anyone may have had concerning exactly what was intended at Twinwood. After that there were no objections and the planning was granted within ten weeks of first submission. The principal officer concerned was Helen Dwyer and what a great job she did too. Bedfordshire County Council can be proud that non of the malaise that is effecting the roll out of renewable technology in other parts of the country are present within the Bedfordshire planning process. London take heed!
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