West Suffolk Operational Hub

The West Suffolk Operational Hub (WSOH) is a project by West Suffolk Council and Suffolk County Council (the 'partner councils') to manage your waste by relocating a number of facilities to a single site. This will increase efficiency, save money and future-proof waste management for West Suffolk's growing communities.

Twenty new sites put forward during public consultation in January and February 2016 were investigated by the councils with the result that land at Hollow Road Farm, near Bury St Edmunds, scored the highest on service and financial criteria. This site has now been selected as the best location for a West Suffolk Operational Hub.

In June 2016 St Edmundsbury Borough Council decided to move forward with the WSOH project and Forest Heath District Council voted to do the same. A planning application to build the hub on land at Hollow Road Farm was approved by St Edmundsbury's Development Control Committee. Suffolk County Council already had the necessary democratic decisions in place as a result of their Energy from Waste project.

A Consultation Report (Appendix A in the Cabinet reports) sets out every issue raised (nearly 400 of them) and gives responses to each of them. The technical documents setting out the councils' research, published for the consultation, have also been amended.

The Council and Cabinet reports, Consultation Report, amended Identification and Assessment of Options and Sites (IAPOS) and amended Sustainability Appraisal are available online: Further background - WSOH process.

Dear Neighbour Newsletter

• February 2019
• January 2019
• December 2018
• November 2018
• October 2018
• August 2018
• July 2018

Press releases

• Milestone marked on operational hub - press release 11 March 2019
• Morgan Sindall appointed to £23m West Suffolk Operational Hub - Press release 1 June 2018
• 3D image of the proposed WSOH
• Briefing document 17 March 2017
• Councils submit planning application for West Suffolk Operational Hub - Press release 16 March 2017

Community Liaison Group

A Community Liaison Group was established since December 2015, whose purpose is to encourage open discussion between interested parties (neighbouring businesses, local parish and district councillors) and your councils (West Suffolk and Suffolk County Councils) on the project. Details, including membership, are in the terms of reference link below.

• Community Liaison Group terms of reference May 2018

Planning application

View the planning application and supporting documents: DC/17/0521/FUL

Further background to WSOH process

Further background - WSOH process