Location

Whatever method is ultimately chosen to deal with our real rubbish, we will need somewhere to put it. This could be on one site or several throughout the county.

Javelin Park was identified as a site for a waste facility through an independent expert report on potential sites throughout the county. Therefore, it was used as the reference site in the outline business case submitted to Defra. Javelin Park was also included in the Gloucestershire Waste Local Plan, which went through extensive public consultation.

This doesn’t prevent other sites being considered or a solution that requires more than one site. The Cabinet confirmed this at a meeting in April 2008 to approve the submission of the outline business case as part of our application for private finance initiative. It stated: “This Cabinet reiterates its commitment to investigating a dispersed solution on a range of sites and to investigate the full range of technologies as identified in the Cabinet Report of November 2007." In addition, Full Council also agreed in May 2008 that: "GCC will not commit to the technology of a single site incinerator (Javelin Park/Hunts Grove site) without, investigating all of the options and considering the full range of available technologies, taking into account of the environmental as well as financial impact of each.