Delivering Waste Infrastructure
At H&C we specialise in delivering effective and affordable waste infrastructure services.
With over 20 years of experience in the waste industry, from regulator to regulated and everything in-between we can help you to find and secure the right site, gain planning permission for your proposed development and achieve an environmental permit to operate.
H&C can also help to secure feedstock for your facility, deliver contract submissions and negotiate with potential customers on your behalf whilst maintaining professional independence.
Together with our network of associates H&C works with you to provide your business with reduced risks and increased project delivery success.
We represent the very best in waste planning experience combining the highest levels of regulatory expertise with a deep understanding of the UK's waste environment.
Ongoing Support and Compliance
We can support you and your company, working together to keep operations compliant for the life of the site and to maximise its business potential and we can help with site closures when the time comes.
We have excellent experience of delivering both large scale infrastructure projects, including some of most complex in UK history, to small scale local projects producing substantial sustainable benefits to communities keen to use waste as a resource.
Read more about our directors
Joanna Holland
Joanna is a Chartered Waste Manager and Chartered Environmentalist with 22 years experience in waste management. She is an experienced project manager of multi-disciplinary teams involved in planning and developing new and existing waste infrastructure. She has worked for local authorities, the Environment Agency, consultancies and waste management companies managing and delivering planning applications and environmental statements for new developments and providing compliance assurance services for existing developments.
Project experience includes:
Contract procurement. PFI projects. Planning applications and inquiries. Due diligence, selection and appraisal of prospective sites for acquisition and development. Appraising, preparing and submitting environmental permits and management systems.
Key project experience includes landfill, waste transfer, waste treatment, energy from waste and recycling facilities across the UK, as well as the winning of contracts for the disposal and treatment of waste.
Diane Cave
Diane has over 23 years experience in the waste management sector and holds a Level 4 Certificate of Technical Competence for the Transfer and Treatment of Hazardous Waste. She is a respected waste professional involved in the delivery and management of new and existing waste infrastructure. Diane is involved in managing all aspects of waste management, environmental permitting, environmental and legislative compliance, and writing management systems.
Project experience includes:
Waste transfer and treatment facilities.Aggregate recycling facilities.End-of-Life Vehicle dismantlers.Metal recycling facilities.Wood recycling facilities. IBA processing facilities.
Diane is routinely involved in environmental assessments of existing and proposed developments to ensure future and continued compliance. She implements new environmental management systems and devises schemes for measuring and monitoring environmental impact.
Planning Services
Pre-Application Advice, Planning Applications, Technical Assessments, Environmental Impact Assessments, Appeals and Enforcement Support.
We offer a comprehensive planning service providing everything you need to obtain planning permission for your development. We specialise in securing planning permission for waste infrastructure from simple variations to complex Environmental Impact Assessments. We understand what it takes to get you the permission you need. We can help from conceptual design to preparing and coordinating the application submission and beyond, to negotiating conditions and legal agreements. Our experience incudes local authority, developer, operator and consultancy – giving a unique blend of practical, technical and commercially sensitive advice.
Contract Support
Tender Support, Content Provision, Contract Development, Review, Negotiation and Submissions.
In developing and operating projects there is a need to secure contracts and our experience can help you to negotiate with customers and authorities, write content for bid submissions, review tender requirements and draft submissions, give advice on the practical implications of a commercial position and work as part of your team to compliment in house resources. Our services in planning and permitting can give the edge to offering practical, compliant and commercially aware solutions.
Permitting Services
Pre-Application Advice, Permit Applications, Environmental Management Systems, Technical Assessments and Enforcement Support.
Our experience in working with the Environment Agency is extensive and allows us to secure an Environmental Permit that meets the requirements of the regulator and meets your needs with careful consideration. We can provide complex submissions for major developments, coordinating technical detail with an understanding of the practical implications or assist with minor changes to reflect ongoing developments and anywhere in-between. We also offer clients support in maintaining compliance and help to avoid enforcement action when things don’t go to plan. We have successfully helped to implement Environmental Management Systems for new and existing facilities that are both practical and compliant with legal standards.
Environmental Support
Site Search, Development Appraisal, Considerate Constructors Scheme Support, and Due Diligence.
Ahead of any development is the need to secure the right site. We offer a site finding service that supports your business strategy to break into new markets and extends to negotiating the deal alongside you or on your behalf. We can coordinate the due diligence to ensure you secure that site with confidence and lay the groundwork for any forthcoming planning and permit applications.
We also work with clients on implementing projects that sign up to the considerate constructors scheme, advising on operations and pre audit preparation.
Clients and Projects
H&C Consultancy has developed a blend of services that fit well with local, regional and national clients.
We work as part of your team to deliver the outcomes that you need. We have successfully built a client base that allows us to give you a broad and in-depth understanding of the industry.
Our clients include:
What our clients say about us
Having worked for more than twenty years, securing and delivering complex projects in support of the waste and renewables sectors, I have had the considerable privilege of working with Joanna on a number of occasions. She combines the detailed sector expertise and key influencer knowledge required to create solutions, particularly in the area of environmental permitting, with the strategic insight to genuinely add value to her clients. I cannot recommend her highly enough.
Phil Davies | Director of Investments, Iona Capital Ltd – bespoke renewable energy infrastructure fund
In our world of waste recycling, finding a suitable development site for our activity and then securing an environmental permit and planning permission is a major task. It requires many skills; tact, diplomacy, trust, determination, skilled negotiation, understanding of our business operational needs and detailed knowledge of environmental and planning regulation and legislation.
Joanna Holland has demonstrated on sensitive sites of strategic importance to our business, that she possesses all the above attributes. She deploys these in a professional but very agreeable manner, to get the desired results. I would thoroughly recommend Joanna to any company with similar needs.
David York | Chairman, Ballast Phoenix Ltd
Project Case Study
The development of a regional Waste Recycling Facility for a national client accepting 250,000 tonnes of waste per annum from conceptual design, including site finding, negotiation of land purchase, due diligence, ecology clearance, planning permission, utility supplies, construction and development support and securing an Environmental Permit to operate and ongoing variations to the planning permission and Environmental Permit to develop and expand a successful operation.
Nottinghamshire Office
H&C Consultancy Ltd
Staffordshire House
Beechdale Road
Nottingham
NG8 3FH
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