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Avonmouth Resource Recovery Centre (formerly Severn Road)
Avonmouth Resource Recovery Centre (formerly Severn Road) is an operational 34 MW energy-from-waste plant in Bristol, City of, generating since 1 December 2020. Planning permission was granted on 6 April 2011, 17 months after submission. Operator of record: Viridor.
Planning and build timeline
| Application submitted | 5 November 2009 |
| Permission granted | 6 April 2011 17 months after submission |
| Operational | 1 December 2020 116 months after consent |
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What this site sits on
The recorded coordinate falls on land surveyed as Urban agricultural land.
REPD gives one representative coordinate per scheme, not the site boundary, so this describes the point on record rather than the whole site — a large site can straddle a designation edge. Boundaries come from planning.data.gov.uk, which publishes for England only.
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| Site | MW | Distance |
|---|---|---|
Solar Photovoltaics · Operational | 1.8 | 0.4 km |
Wind Onshore · Operational | 4.2 | 1.1 km |
Wind Onshore · Operational | 5 | 1.1 km |
Battery · Operational | 32 | 1.3 km |
EfW Incineration · Operational | 32 | 1.5 km |
Solar Photovoltaics · Operational | 1.8 | 1.7 km |
Solar Photovoltaics · Under Construction | 3.81 | 1.7 km |
Anaerobic Digestion · Operational | 10 | 1.9 km |
How big is Avonmouth Resource Recovery Centre (formerly Severn Road)?
Avonmouth Resource Recovery Centre (formerly Severn Road) has a recorded installed capacity of 34 MW. That figure is the capacity registered in REPD, which is the scheme as consented — the metered output of a site can differ.
Who operates Avonmouth Resource Recovery Centre (formerly Severn Road)?
REPD records the operator as Viridor. Ownership of built renewable assets changes hands regularly and REPD is published quarterly, so treat this as the operator of record rather than confirmation of who owns it today.
When was Avonmouth Resource Recovery Centre (formerly Severn Road) approved and built?
The application was submitted on 5 November 2009. Permission was granted on 6 April 2011, 17 months later. The site became operational on 1 December 2020, 116 months after consent.
Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0, plus planning designation boundaries from planning.data.gov.uk (England only). REPD is published quarterly and covers schemes of roughly 150 kW and above. Capacity is the installed capacity on record, not metered generation. Operator is the operator of record at the last extract, not confirmation of present ownership. Reference 1008.
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