Cheshire burial ground plans resurrected

Chester Zoo’s proposal for its latest attraction, an extensive African savannah next to a range of lodges and safari tents, has been approved by Cheshire West & Chester Council's planning committee.

Peel Environmental has signed a £130m agreement with Waste2Tricity and PowerHouse Energy to deliver 11 waste plastic to hydrogen facilities, as the developer prepares to submit a planning application for the first scheme at Protos, Cheshire.

The observatory in Cheshire has been added to Unesco's World Heritage List, joining Liverpool's waterfront, the Lake District National Park, and the King Edward castles in Gwynedd as protected sites in the region.

Cheshire East Council is to invest £1.55m in the refurbishment of the stableyard area of visitor attraction Tatton Park.

British Salt, advised by Fletcher Rae, has secured planning permission for a £7.2m boiler plant at its Middlewich site.

Recycling company Advanced Sustainable Developments is in talks with Peel Environmental as it seeks to open its first UK site at the Protos energy park in Ellesmere Port.

Waste2Tricity has signed an agreement with Peel Environmental for a 54-acre site at the Ellesmere Port energy hub to develop a hydrogen-from-waste facility.

Christine Gaskell, chair of the Cheshire & Warrington LEP, told an event at MIPIM that the region has the potential to create the world’s first zero carbon industry cluster, based around its Energy Innovation District proposition.

Proposals by Sibelco to extract 3.3 million tons of industrial sand from a site near Goostrey have again been recommended for approval, more than six months after the plans were first withdrawn from committee.