Plants like this create biomethane, CO2 and biofertiliser. The first two are odourless gases.

The biofertiliser produced by the process comes in solid and liquid form and is stored onsite in fully covered and sealed tanks, unlike many older plants. As only a small portion of the silage clamp is open for feeding there should be no odour detectable away from the site. This is borne out on our other sites many of which have neighbours close to the site locations.

There is very little odour linked to the process as we use energy crops rather than waste materials.

“No smell, sealed units, inspired confidence.”

- A quote taken from the minutes of a Parish Council meeting, who visited an existing Future Biogas site.

There would be some noise related to the transport of fuel crops to the site, and the removal of CO2 and biomethane by road. There would be up to half a dozen or so employees on site at any given time during the working day.

Any equipment likely to generate noise would be specially housed, and local and national regulations and guidance followed.

AD plants are not typically associated with noise nuisance and an independent acoustic assessment would be submitted to the local authority with any planning application.

Not at all. Although the gas is pumped into the mains supply, our actual customers are businesses and other large organisations who need to lower their carbon footprint. So they commit to buy an amount of gas which we then supply to the network.

We receive no subsidies from any source, and our neighbours’ energy bills will not be impacted by anything we do.

Little Oak Biogas have an agreement in principle to lease the site for 30 years, after which the plant would be either upgraded, re-purposed or decommissioned.