Duchy and council to swap Newquay land for new recycling centre

The Duchy of Cornwall and Cornwall Council are planning a land swap arrangement to ensure a much-needed new household waste recycling centre (HWRC) is built in Newquay.

A report to next week’s meeting states that the current recycling centre is in need of replacement due to age and infrastructure limitations.

The council and Duchy of Cornwall have been working on the provision of a new HWRC as part of the Nansledan site for over a decade. The land swap principle was agreed at an early stage and is finally due to be signed off by Cllr Loic Rich, the council’s cabinet member for the environment, at next week’s meeting.

The specific location is south of the railway line accessed off the Newquay Strategic Route, which serves Nansledan, and north of the Hendra roundabout.

“The new facility will enable and feature a modern split-level design, incorporating dedicated queuing lanes to manage visitor traffic efficiently,” states the report.

The land swap presents no overall cost to the council as the current Trevenson Road site will be swapped directly for the proposed Hendra site.

The funding for the delivery of the new HWRC will be met through a combination of existing allocation in the council’s approved capital funding programme and private financing, allowing a private sector company to finance, build and operate a public sector asset.

The works tender based on the agreed design is managed through the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) provider, Cornwall Energy Recovery Limited, and its operational and management subcontractor Suez Recycling and Recovery UK Ltd.