A couple of weeks ago, the Water Matters team pointed out that Southern Water’s first reverse osmosis (RO) effluent recycling plant will provide a new final processing stage for the Sandown Wastewater and Sludge Treatment Works on the Isle of Wight.
Tonight, BBC South Today covered the story – click the arrow below to view.
There’s a healthy dose of spin from Southern Water in the piece and also a reference to an ‘application for planning permission’. This, we suspect, will turn out to be an application for a Development Consent Order under Section 35 of the Planning Act (2008), with the company seeking approval from the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government to have the project considered as a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project.
This, of course, will take the approval process out of the hands of the local authority on the Isle of Wight.
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