Sewage works expansion to support town's growing population gets green light

Plans to expand a Market Drayton sewage works to accommodate the town's growing population have been approved by council planners.

A planning statement supplied with the application says the work forms part of a five-year capital investment programme by the firm, which it says is in response to 'a number of key challenges' including population growth and strict new environmental regulations. "This application seeks full planning permission for an extension to the southern boundary of Market Drayton STW and the change of use of this new area of land to 'operational land' for sewage treatment purposes to accommodate a new Tertiary Solids Removal Plant and associated infrastructure.

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