{"id":36553,"date":"2025-07-31T20:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/36553\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T20:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:19:07","slug":"heighington-hazardous-waste-incinerator-could-open-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/36553\/","title":{"rendered":"Heighington hazardous waste incinerator could open next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The company behind a hazardous waste incinerator plant which attracted thousands of objections says it hopes to be in operation in the first quarter of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The facility on Heighington Lane in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, has already been built by Fornax North East but requires an environmental permit from the Environment Agency (EA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The firm said the plant will use &#8220;the best available techniques to safely dispose of waste&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Durham County Council approved planning permission for the incinerator on 5 December 2022 following an appeal, but more than 2,000 residents living nearby have submitted objections to an EA consultation over the permit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The company behind a hazardous waste incinerator plant which attracted thousands of objections says it hopes to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-36553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}