Announcement on waste plant delayed

Residents waiting to find out who could be building a new waste plant on their doorstep will have to wait a bit longer after an announcement on possible candidates was delayedAn announcement of the final shortlist for the Barnsley, Doncaster and Rothe

Residents waiting to find out who could be building a new waste plant on their doorstep will have to wait a bit longer after an announcement on possible candidates was delayed

An announcement of the final shortlist for the Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham waste private finance initiative projec, which could be based at Manvers, has been expected at the end of last month.

But no announcement has been made after Doncaster Council said that it was still considering the move and it was not clear this week when the shortlist would be revealed.

A Doncaster Council spokesman said: “We have deferred the decision until mid-February and we are still considering the decision.”

The teams bidding for the waste PFI contract to build the plant, are the following:

q AmeyCespa.

q Earth Tech Skanska.

q Sita Lend Lease.

q Shanks, Scottish and Southern Energy.

The procuring authority—the Barnsley Doncaster Rotherham Waste Partnership—was awarded £77 million in PFI credits by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in 2008.

When constructed the new facility is expected to be able to process the 450,000 tonnes of residual waste that the three boroughs produce annually.