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BOC Immingham Dissolved Acetylene Project Environmental Statement: Vol. 2 Main Text
Proposed Site
1.17 The proposed site has been designed to manufacture and store acetylene gas. The site will
include gas compression and cylinder filling facilities as well as facilities for cylinder examination
and re-painting. The proposed site will have its own staff amenity facilities (including offices, mess
room etc.).
1.18 The approximate centre of the development area for the proposed site is at OS Grid Reference
TA 221 134 (NGR 522105 413465).
1.19 Normal operational traffic will access the proposed site through the existing site, across a new
bridge over Middle Drain and via a new short link road. A new emergency access road will be
constructed onto South Marsh Road (see Figure 3.2). Staff parking will be at the existing site car
park, although two disabled parking sites will be available at the proposed site.
1.20 Diesel for the proposed site (requirement for firewater pumps and some of the fork lift trucks) will
be supplied from the diesel storage tank at the existing site.
1.21 Maintenance and operations planning, site access, parking and diesel storage facilities for the
Dissolved Acetylene Project will be provided by the existing site; there are no other shared
facilities. Where feasible, to reduce traffic movements, some deliveries and waste collections to
from the existing site will also serve the proposed site. Other than this, the activities at the existing
and proposed sites are not considered to be directly associated (i.e. they are independent of each
other).
1.22 An application for a HSC (NELC reference DC/129/11/IMM) for the proposed site (for the storage
and manufacture of acetylene (75 tonnes) and storage of calcium carbide (80 tonnes)) was made
in February 2011. The proposed site will also be a Top-tier COMAH site and a COMAH Safety
Report will be produced to enable consent to be obtained under the COMAH Regulations. The
proposed site will require an IPPC EP to operate from the EA and will require consent to
discharge to Middle Drain. The EP, COMAH and discharge consents will be applied for
independently of the existing site. The EMS for the existing site will be extended to include the
Dissolved Acetylene Project.
Background to the EIA and ES
1.23 The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales)
Regulations 1999 2 and subsequent amendments (hereafter referred to as the EIA Regulations),
transpose the requirements of the Council Directive 85/337/EEC (as amended by Council
Directive 97/11/EC) into the law of England and Wales. The EIA Regulations set out the types of
developments for which an EIA is required.
1.24 The need for an ES has been established, on the advice of NELC, as a result of the nature and
scale of development and the potential for significant effects on the environment.
1.25 Before making an application for Planning Consent an applicant may ask the Local Planning
Authority ((LPA) in this case NELC), for its formal opinion (known as a Scoping Opinion) on the
information to be supplied within the ES. Submission of a formal request for a Scoping Opinion
does not constitute an application for the Consent for the construction or operation of any part of a
proposed project. The request for a Scoping Opinion is usually undertaken through the
submission of a Scoping Report. The Scoping Report should provide the necessary background
information for the LPA (and their statutory consultees) to prepare the formal Scoping Opinion and
would be expected to contain:
� a description of the proposed development;
� the methodology to be adopted within the EIA;
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