Asked by: Aaron Bell (Conservative - Newcastle-under-Lyme)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many odour complaints have been received about each site regulated by the Environment Agency in March 2021.
Answered by Rebecca Pow
We provide below the number of unsubstantiated odour reports that have been received about each site regulated by the Environment Agency (EA) for March 2021. The reports have not yet been verified and therefore may not be accurately attributed. The EA seeks to quality-check attributions each month for sites which attract 20 or more reports. This has not yet been done for this data set due to the short timescale involved. To prevent inaccurate attributions, we have anonymised the names of the sites associated with the reports, specifying only the class of activity undertaken. The total number of reports of odour pollution received by the EA in March 2021 was 7516.
The table below provides the full list of the odour reports associated with each of the EA permitted sites for March 2021.
Reports In March 2021 | Class |
6347 | Landfill |
122 | Landfill |
87 | Landfill |
64 | Landfill |
51 | Landfill |
46 | Landfill |
45 | Landfill |
37 | Biowaste |
33 | Landfill |
29 | Farming |
26 | Landfill |
26 | Landfill |
26 | Biowaste |
25 | Biowaste |
23 | Biowaste |
20 | Waste Treatment |
19 | Landfill |
19 | Landfill |
19 | Waste Treatment |
17 | Food Processing |
16 | Intensive Farming |
16 | Landfill |
14 | Food Processing |
14 | Food Processing |
14 | Biowaste |
13 | Biowaste |
12 | Other |
12 | Waste Treatment |
11 | Landfill |
11 | Biowaste |
10 | Manufacturing |
9 | Food Processing |
9 | Biowaste |
9 | Biowaste |
8 | Biowaste |
8 | Food Processing |
8 | Intensive Farming |
8 | Chemicals |
8 | Biowaste |
6 | Chemicals |
5 | Landfill |
5 | Intensive Farming |
5 | Biowaste |
5 | Food Processing |
5 | Biowaste |
5 | Waste Treatment |
5 | Waste Treatment |
4 | Biowaste |
4 | Landfill |
4 | Landfill |
4 | Biowaste |
4 | Intensive Farming |
4 | Landfill |
4 | Intensive Farming |
4 | Intensive Farming |
4 | Incineration |
4 | Incineration |
4 | Biowaste |
4 | Waste Treatment |
4 | Biowaste |
3 | Intensive Farming |
3 | Landfill |
3 | Waste Treatment |
3 | Food Processing |
3 | Intensive Farming |
3 | Biowaste |
3 | Landfill |
3 | Intensive Farming |
3 | Landfill |
3 | Food Processing |
3 | Waste Treatment |
3 | Waste Treatment |
2 | Food Processing |
2 | Food Processing |
2 | Food Processing |
2 | Landfill |
2 | Intensive Farming |
2 | Intensive Farming |
2 | Intensive Farming |
2 | Biowaste |
2 | Chemicals |
2 | Biowaste |
2 | Food Processing |
2 | Intensive Farming |
2 | Manufacturing |
2 | Farming |
2 | Other |
2 | Biowaste |
2 | Minerals |
2 | Food |
2 | Food |
2 | Biowaste |
2 | Farming |
2 | Biowaste |
2 | Treatment |
2 | Farming |
2 | Food |
2 | Treatment |
2 | Biowaste |
2 | Treatment |
1 | Landfill |
1 | Landfill |
1 | Food |
1 | Treatment |
1 | Landfill |
1 | Landfill |
1 | Landfill |
1 | Landfill |
1 | Farming |
1 | Farming |
1 | Farming |
1 | Biowaste |
1 | Biowaste |
1 | Food |
1 | Farming |
1 | Treatment |
1 | Food |
1 | Landfill |
1 | Biowaste |
1 | Incineration |
1 | Farming |
1 | Landfill |
1 | Incineration |
1 | Landfill |
1 | Chemicals |
1 | Treatment |
1 | Landfill |
1 | Treatment |
1 | Landfill |
1 | Treatment |
1 | Treatment |
1 | Treatment |
1 | Treatment |
1 | Biowaste |
1 | Treatment |
1 | Biowaste |
1 | Landfill |
1 | Treatment |
1 | Spreading |
1 | Unknown |
Asked by: Aaron Bell (Conservative - Newcastle-under-Lyme)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many odour complaints have been received by the Environment Agency about Walley's Quarry Landfill in Newcastle-under-Lyme, each day since 27 February 2021.
Answered by Rebecca Pow
Walleys Quarry Landfill is a high priority for the Environment Agency (EA). The EA has increased the resource focused on regulation of the site and on partnership working to address local concerns as quickly as possible. The EA continues to receive large volumes of complaints from the community surrounding the site and takes each one very seriously.
Earlier this month, the EA issued Red Industries with an enforcement notice legally requiring specific actions to be completed by 30 April, including the capping of certain parts of the site. This should reduce odours to a level where they do not cause an offence (against permit definition).
The EA is also working alongside its partners to ensure air quality monitoring covers their health remits. The EA has agreed two further locations, in addition to those that went live in early March, to site air quality monitoring equipment. The additional units will be in place as soon as possible. The EA is sharing this data with partners, including Public Health England, on a regular basis and has supported a Staffordshire County Council led multi-agency statement on health advice.
The EA is receiving complaint reports from a number of different avenues including via email and phone. These are being updated to the system at regular intervals so these figures may be subject to change.
Date | Number of complaints |
27/02/2021 | 878 |
28/02/2021 | 467 |
01/03/2021 | 180 |
02/03/2021 | 93 |
03/03/2021 | 82 |
04/03/2021 | 60 |
05/03/2021 | 156 |
06/03/2021 | 666 |
07/03/2021 | 395 |
08/03/2021 | 574 |
09/03/2021 | 405 |
10/03/2021 | 159 |
11/03/2021 | 93 |
12/03/2021 | 143 |
13/03/2021 | 67 |
14/03/2021 | 141 |
15/03/2021 | 266 |
16/03/2021 | 164 |
17/03/2021 | 351 |
18/03/2021 | 229 |
19/03/2021 | 144 |
20/03/2021 | 206 |
21/03/2021 | 133 |
22/03/2021 | 248 |
23/03/2021 | 222 |
24/03/2021 | 196 |
25/03/2021 | 137 |
26/03/2021 | 94 |
27/03/2021 | 106 |
28/03/2021 | 42 |
29/03/2021 | 64 |
30/03/2021 | 296 |
31/03/2021 | 235 |
01/04/2021 | 56 |
02/04/2021 | 53 |
03/04/2021 | 149 |
04/04/2021 | 286 |
05/04/2021 | 129 |
06/04/2021 | 150 |
07/04/2021 | 182 |
08/04/2021 | 87 |
09/04/2021 | 159 |
10/04/2021 | 408 |
11/04/2021 | 244 |
12/04/2021 | 237 |
13/04/2021 | 450 |
14/04/2021 | 148 |
Total | 10,430 |
Asked by: Aaron Bell (Conservative - Newcastle-under-Lyme)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of odour complaints about Walley's Quarry landfill in the last six months; and what assessment he has made on the acceptability of the level and type of odour arising from its operations.
Answered by Rebecca Pow
The Environment Agency (EA) received 6938 odour complaints relating to Walley’s Quarry Landfill in the last six months, including a significant increase since December 2020.
The EA is completing regular odour assessments within the local area and undertaking more frequent assessments at locations where it receives the most complaints. Over the last six months the EA has completed 28 amenity assessments and formally visited the site on nine occasions. It has also completed seven procedure and report reviews.
Trained EA officers have detected odour at some locations but could not substantiate reports at a level considered to be of annoyance. The EA will continue with odour assessments and visits to ensure all measures are being used to minimise odour impacting local residents.
Asked by: Aaron Bell (Conservative - Newcastle-under-Lyme)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many odour complaints have been received about each site regulated by the Environment Agency in each month since November 2020.
Answered by Rebecca Pow
Since November 2020, the Environment Agency (EA) has received substantiated reports of odour incidents at around 50 sites which it regulates.
Table 1 shows the total number of notifications made to the EA in relation to odour in each month since November 2020. This may include a number of notifications that following investigation may be determined not to fall within the remit of the EA. The majority will be associated with sites that the EA regulates.
Table 1. Total odour notifications made to the Environment Agency
November 2020 | December 2020 | January 2021 | February 2021 | |
Total odour notifications | 1051 | 1261 | 2602 | 4556 |
Table 2 shows the number of odour incidents which have been substantiated and linked to sites that the EA regulates, in each month since November 2020. It also includes the number of additional notifications associated with each substantiated incident, where a single incident has received multiple notifications. Due to potential ongoing investigations into these incidents the sites have been anonymised. The data in table 2 is taken from a live system and is subject to change as additional incident information is recorded and the data is further quality assured.
Table 2. Substantiated odour incidents at sites regulated by the Environment Agency
| November 2020 | December 2020 | January 2021 | February 2021 | ||||
| Incidents | Duplicates (additional notifications) | Incidents | Duplicates (additional notifications) | Incidents | Duplicates (additional notifications) | Incidents | Duplicates (additional notifications) |
Site 1 |
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| 1 | 3 |
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|
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Site 2 | 1 | 0 |
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Site 3 | 1 | 22 |
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Site 4 |
|
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| 1 | 0 |
Site 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
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Site 6 | 1 | 5 |
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Site 7 | 1 | 26 |
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Site 8 |
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| 1 | 2 |
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Site 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
|
| 1 | 0 |
Site 10 |
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| 1 | 7 | 1 | 3 |
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Site 11 | 1 | 8 |
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Site 12 |
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| 1 | 0 |
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Site 13 |
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| 1 | 4 |
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Site 14 | 1 | 2 |
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| 1 | 6 |
|
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Site 15 |
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| 1 | 12 |
|
| 1 | 0 |
Site 16 |
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| 1 | 0 |
|
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Site 17 |
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| 1 | 6 | 1 | 2 |
|
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Site 18 |
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| 1 | 0 |
Site 19 | 1 | 1 |
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Site 20 |
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| 1 | 0 |
|
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Site 21 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
|
| 1 | 0 |
Site 22 | 1 | 0 |
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Site 23 | 1 | 1 |
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Site 24 |
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| 1 | 1 |
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Site 25 |
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| 1 | 6 |
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Site 26 |
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| 1 | 56 |
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Site 27 |
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| 2 | 0 |
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| 1 | 0 |
Site 28 | 1 | 34 |
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Site 29 |
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| 1 | 4 |
Site 30 | 1 | 1 |
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Site 31 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 1 | 26 |
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Site 32 | 1 | 0 |
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Site 33 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
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Site 34 |
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| 1 | 14 |
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Site 35 |
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| 1 | 0 |
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Site 36 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
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Site 37 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
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Site 38 | 1 | 196 | 2 | 494 | 6 | 1918 |
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Site 39 |
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| 1 | 0 |
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Site 40 |
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| 1 | 1 |
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Site 41 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
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Site 42 |
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| 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Site 43 |
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| 1 | 8 | 1 | 2 |
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Site 44 | 1 | 2 |
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Site 45 | 1 | 3 |
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Site 46 |
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| 1 | 0 |
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Site 47 |
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| 1 | 1 |
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Site 48 | 1 | 0 |
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Site 49 |
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| 1 | 0 |
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Site 50 |
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| 1 | 0 |
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Asked by: Aaron Bell (Conservative - Newcastle-under-Lyme)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many odour complaints have been received by the Environment Agency about Walley's Quarry Landfill in Newcastle-under-Lyme, each day since 1 November 2020.
Answered by Rebecca Pow
The information will be placed in the Library.
Asked by: Aaron Bell (Conservative - Newcastle-under-Lyme)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many odour complaints have been received by the Environment Agency about Walley's Quarry Landfill in Newcastle-under-Lyme in each month since January 2019.
Answered by Rebecca Pow
Walley’s Quarry landfill site holds a permit that is issued and regulated by the Environment Agency (EA), and the EA takes seriously any concerns expressed regarding the site. Although no landfill will ever be completely odour free, the level and type of odour arising from such operations should not be causing annoyance.
The table below details the number of odour complaints (reports of incidents received through the EA Incident Communication Service) about Walley’s Quarry Landfill, over the last two-year period.
Month | Number of Odour Complaints |
January 2019 | 81 |
February 2019 | 259 |
March 2019 | 58 |
April 2019 | 49 |
May 2019 | 31 |
June 2019 | 57 |
July 2019 | 48 |
August 2019 | 95 |
September 2019 | 134 |
October 2019 | 82 |
November 2019 | 159 |
December 2019 | 102 |
January 2020 | 37 |
February 2020 | 94 |
March 2020 | 187 |
April 2020 | 74 |
May 2020 | 68 |
June 2020 | 53 |
July 2020 | 77 |
August 2020 | 92 |
September 2020 | 371 |
October 2020 | 225 |
Asked by: Aaron Bell (Conservative - Newcastle-under-Lyme)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many odour complaints have been received by the Environment Agency about landfill sites in the West Midlands in each month since January 2019.
Answered by Rebecca Pow
The information requested is not held centrally and to obtain it would incur disproportionate costs due to time.