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Reliance Street Mechanical Biological Treatment Facility (MBT)
Reliance Street Mechanical Biological Treatment Facility (MBT) is an operational 2 MW anaerobic digestion plant in Manchester, generating since 7 April 2011. Planning permission was granted on 9 October 2008, 13 months after submission. Operator of record: Viridor.
Planning and build timeline
| Application submitted | 30 August 2007 |
| Permission granted | 9 October 2008 13 months after submission |
| Operational | 7 April 2011 30 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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How big is Reliance Street Mechanical Biological Treatment Facility (MBT)?
Reliance Street Mechanical Biological Treatment Facility (MBT) has a recorded installed capacity of 2 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 Reliance Street Mechanical Biological Treatment Facility (MBT)?
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 Reliance Street Mechanical Biological Treatment Facility (MBT) approved and built?
The application was submitted on 30 August 2007. Permission was granted on 9 October 2008, 13 months later. The site became operational on 7 April 2011, 30 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 218.
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