Green light for £500m North London incinerator

The Government has granted development consent for a £500m energy from waste scheme to replace an existing facility at Edmonton EcoPark in North London.Known as the North London Heat and Power Project, the development will replace the EcoPark’s existing energy from waste plant, which has operated for around 45 years but comes to the end of its life in 2025.Following the development of the delivery strategy, construction preparation work could start in 2019. The existing plant would be decommissioned and demolished once the new facility is up and running by 2028.It will have the capacity to treat up to 700,000 tonnes of waste a year from households in the seven surrounding boroughs of Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey, Islington and Waltham Forest.A DCO is awarded to any development classified as a nationally significant infrastructure project, and is intended to speed up and simplify the planning process.