‘No Time To Waste’ for New Folkestone Waste Transfer Station

As a result of collaborative working with key stakeholders and the technical project team over the past year, Kent County Council (acting as the Minerals and Waste Planning Authority) have granted planning permission for an application submitted by Hume Planning Consultancy for a new waste transfer station off the A20, close to the M20 Junction 11 in Folkestone, Kent. 

Hume Planning guided the client throughout the application process in order to resolve technical issues relating to landscape impacts, biodiversity net gain and drainage, through recommending solutions and actively engaging with both the project team, statutory consultees and the planning officer.

Securing the delegated approval is a step forward for the project and it is expected that the delivery of the development will commence next year in order to provide additional capacity necessary to support district-wide household growth to 2041 and to provide a location for transfer that assists in reducing the overall environmental impacts of the waste recovery process.