DEVELOPMENT giant Peel Environmental has submitted revised plans to build a £65 million renewable energy centre.
Original proposals for an anaerobic digestion plant, which recovers energy from breaking down waste food, and a timber resource recovery centre, which breaks down waste wood, were thrown out by Barnsley Council in November.
Councillors voted unanimously against Peel's plans for the former Houghton Colliery site off Park Spring Road, siding with hundreds of objectors who said the anaerobic digestion facility would create foul smells and release harmful pollutants - a charge Peel Environmental denied.
The revised Houghton Main Renewable Energy Centre proposals are for a timber resource recovery centre only and does not include an anaerobic digestion facility.
** The full story appears in the Barnsley Chronicle, dated February 13. **
