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The latest odour monitoring report for the week commencing 26 May 2025 has reaffirmed the ongoing minimal impact of odour from the Jameson Road landfill site on surrounding residential areas.

The latest findings from weekly odour monitoring again confirm that the Jameson Road landfill site continues to play only a small role in the overall odour profile of the area.

The latest findings from weekly odour monitoring again confirm that the Jameson Road landfill site continues to play only a small role in the overall odour profile of the area.

The first set of results an the independent odour monitoring company have been published and show that odour levels are currently low, and appear to originate from a number of sources.

The biggest and longest study into air quality surrounding the Jameson Road land fill site has concluded that air quality is well within WHO safety standards - directly contradicting claims made by objectors that they are being poisoned.

The new deep wells continue to work well and our gas contractors are fine tuning them on an ongoing basis to maximise performance. The independent odour monitoring is showing very little odour from our site over the last 10 days.

Progressive restoration will start this spring/summer, with tree planting taking place in autumn/winter. The tree planting is a £411,000 programme which will involve the planting of 32,000 trees on the site.

The 11 new gas wells are continuing to perform well, but we are constantly fine tuning their settings to achieve maximum odour extraction.

Work is continuing in Cell 6. Our aim is to bring the cell up to approved contour levels as soon as possible so that we can get a permanent cap on it earlier, rather than wait for the completion of the site.

Last night the Environment Agency confirmed that the work to drill and install the 11 deep wells conformed with all conditions of the Suspension Notice and as such, a Withdrawal Notice was issued.

The 11 new deep gas wells in Cell 6 continue to work well and odour levels from the site are dropping. We anticipate that these will drop further as the wells are balanced.

All 11 wells are now connected up and functioning. There has already been a reduction in odour level - even though the wind has been blowing over Fleetwood today. The odour levels should drop further as the wells are balanced to maximise gas capture.

As promised, the drilling of 11 deep wells was completed today and these have now been connected to the gas capture infrastructure. These are now extracting gas and will be balanced to achieve maximum effectiveness.

For the last few days we have been preparing the site for the drilling of the 11 deep wells to rectify the odour problem from Cell 6. This work included infilling part of Cell 6 with soil to create a level platform to work from.

Over the last couple of days we have continued to prepare the site for the deep well drilling next week. This has mainly involved sealing the cell with clay.

Work on sealing Cell 6 with a thick layer of clay has progressed well with the good weather this week and it is now almost completed. We hope to have this finished early next week, ready for the deep gas extraction wells the week after.

As previously mentioned in our updates, we are planning to undertake work to further improve capping and to prepare the site for additional gas infrastructure.

Capping work on Cell 4 is well underway and, weather permitting, we hope to complete this by the end of next week.

Following a constructive meeting with Lorraine Beavers MP, we have taken on board her comments and have decided to withdraw our application for a permit variation.

The repair to the storm damage on Cell 5 is now complete and we are increasing the gas extraction to maximum. We have also completed the additional capping of the flank of the old Cell 4 and we are currently working to complete the capping of the top of this cell. This work is over and above that requested by the EA.