About Jameson Road
Jameson Road is a landfill facility which has existed on this site since the 1970s. The site holds an environmental permit to accept non-hazardous waste for disposal and it is regulated by the Environment Agency.
The site was originally opened in the 1970s but mothballed by its previous owners in 2017, and eventually sold to Transwaste Recycling & Aggregates Limited, a major player in recycling and waste management across Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and the East Midlands.
Transwaste
Transwaste operates a waste transfer station in East Yorkshire with a licence to handle up to 750,000 tonnes of waste a year, employing over 100 people with 10 people employed at Fleetwood. The company offers a Full waste management spectrum including: Acceptance of waste at two transfer stations.
Sorting
Recycling
Landfil site management
It is proposing to develop the Melton Green Energy Park at the Melton Waste Transfer Station which will include:
Anaerobic Digestion (AD) plant to produce biogas
25MW Energy from Waste (EfW) plant
3 more wind turbines producing 9MW in addition to existing 4.6 MW
Work on site to date
When Transwaste took over the site, Cell 5 was not completed – it was only temporarily mothballed.
Transwaste needed to reopen the uncompleted cell to install new gas wells to capture gas and complete the cell to the final contours agreed in the planning permission.
Additional work to bring the site up to modern standards has also included:
- New on-site roads
- Modern gas capture wells
- Temporary cap, construction of new cells, litter netting
Giving a total investment on site improvement to date of approximately £2,000,000
Odour issues
When a landfill site has been covered for some time, the waste starts to breakdown and generate landfill gas.
When a site re-opens there is increased risk of odour and emissions due to older waste still being present.
The Jameson Road site has been inactive for a long period of time, and as the landfill activity on site has restarted, work to modernise the site has required that some of the older waste be temporarily exposed which has led to odour issues.
The temporary cap installed on Cell 5 along with the new gas capture infrastructure should resolve this problem.
We are working with the Environment Agency, Wyre Borough Council, Lancashire County Council and UK Health Security Agency to resolve this issue.
Regulators
The Environment Agency – is the primary regulator of the Jameson Road (Phase 2) Landfill Site. This is done under the Environmental Permitting (England & Wales) Regulations.
The site is operated by Transwaste Recycling and Aggregate Limited who hold the Environmental Permit for the site. The most appropriate way to deal with the current issues on the site is through that permit.
Wyre Borough Council – Wyre BC have a duty for monitoring under statutory nuisance legislation.
Lancashire County Council – have a dual role in planning control and public health guidance.
UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) – provides the government and the public with health information based on evidence and information available.
UKHSA have provided the latest health advice in relation to Jameson Road Landfill
Environment Agency Monitoring
The results of the latest EA monitoring show transient levels of Hydrogen Sulphide slightly above normal background levels.
The highest result recorded to date from the portable Hydrogen Sulphide monitoring was 0.015 ppm on 2 August 2024 at 01:20 – 03:00 hours at the Nature Reserve.
The majority of results obtained have been between 0.003ppm and 0.004ppm – this is below the recognition threshold of human smell, the concentration at which 50% of humans can detect the characteristic odour of hydrogen sulphide (Source: HSE).
PPM
Signs & Symptoms
0.011
0.015
Average human detection (smell) threshold
Highest level recorded during latest monitoring
2
Possible bronchial constriction in asthmatic individuals
3.6
Odour becomes offensive at 3-5ppm, prolonged exposure may cause nausea, tearing of the eyes, headaches.
20
Fatigue, loss of appetite, headache, irritability, poor memory, dizziness.
Source: Air Quality Guidelines for Europe. World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen.
