Kariong Sand and Soil Recycling proposal DA lodged
A proposal to build a multimillion-dollar recycling facility that will grind through 200,000 tonnes of construction waste a year from Sydney and the Central Coast has gone on public exhibition.
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A multimillion-dollar recycling facility that will crush and grind through 200,000 tonnes of construction waste a year could be built at Somersby.
The proposed Kariong Sand and Soil Recycling Facility has been earmarked as a State Siginificant Development by Planning NSW because of its potential to help the government reach it’s target of recycling 80% of construction and demolition waste by 2021.
The expansion of the existing facility is expected to produce 11 jobs and inject almost $74 million into the Central Coast economy over the next 20 years.
Plans for the proposal are now on public exhibition and submissions on the plan will be accepted until Thursday, February 28.
The plant would be located on a large block at 90 Gindurra Road within Somersby Industrial park and just behind Kariong Correctional Centre.
The facility would process a variety of waste products including soil (50 per cent) concrete, tiles and masonry (23 per cent) asphalt (10 per cent) timber, stumps, rootballs (10 per cent) and some mixed building waste which would otherwise have ended up in landfill.
A quarter of the waster for processing would come from Sydney with the rest from the Central Coast. Everything that is produced will be used locally — but there will be no direct sales to the public.
The applicant is seeking 24/7 access to the site to allow occasional late truck movements, but generally the plant would operate 7am to 6pm Monday to Saturday and be closed on Sunday.
The plans indicate up to 164 vehicle movements per day by 2025 (a maximum of 21 trips per hour) including 40 tonne B-doubles, 32 tonne trucks and 12 tonne trucks as well as operation vehicles on site.
See the development application
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