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In Norfolk, we’re working with the county council to deliver integrated transport planning services and develop new strategies for the disposal of waste.
Highways – the Norfolk Strategic Partnership (NSP)
The NSP is a long-term partnership contract between Norfolk County Council, design consultants Mott MacDonald and ourselves.
The partnership covers maintenance and repairs to almost 10,000 kms of highways and footways including surface dressing; patching; gully emptying; weed spraying; verge maintenance; major surfacing; minor highways improvement schemes; and new major highway, bridge, and public transport infrastructure schemes.
The integrated team shares a co-located office and the NSP has a unified team culture with shared objectives, and an effective joint management and decision-making structure. We provide best value by improving efficiency in the delivery of projects and services.
The NSP has also delivered projects and schemes for other local authorities in Norfolk including Great Yarmouth Borough Council, Kings Lynn Borough Council and Norwich City Council.
Using the existing NSP contract enables these authorities to legally avoid the need to go to tender, with all the ensuing administrative and paperwork savings, while also guaranteeing work is carried out to a high standard by utilising the expertise within NSP.
Recycling services
We provide a seven-day a week service to enable people living in Norfolk to recycle domestic household and garden waste.
Under a long-term contract, we are responsible for the operation and management of the county’s recycling centres, including the transport of materials to other companies for reprocessing.
Recycled materials include metals, textiles, glass, paper, cardboard, cans, Tetra-Paks, fluorescent light bulbs, household and car batteries, engine and cooking oil, TVs, computers and other electronic and electrical equipment. Only as a last resort is anything sent for disposal in landfill.
All the sites use compactor units, which eliminate the need for members of the public to climb steps and gantries for around 60% of the material brought to the sites. The compactors also increase the weight of material carried by each truck, thereby decreasing the number of truck movements and reducing the carbon footprint of the operation.
Under the contract we handle in excess of 60,000 tonnes of waste annually through a network of 18 sites spread across the county.
The contract has a target recycling rate of 60% and we are working with the council to introduce best practices, additional recycling facilities and bring the sites up to a standard that will encourage further increases in recycling performance.
We also provide a scheme under which residents can bring their used vegetable oil to any one of 18 recycling points for it to be recycled, purified and converted into clean, renewable energy.
It has been calculated that if all Norfolk’s used cooking oil were recycled, the resulting biofuel could generate more than 13,000-megawatt hours of electricity per year - the equivalent to the annual average consumption of around 2,200 households.
We have also pioneered the introduction of reuse facilities in Norfolk at the new state-of-the-art recycling centre in Kings Lynn. This recycling centre, which was also built by May Gurney for Norfolk County Council, incorporates a dedicated shop where people can buy unwanted but usable items including furniture, sports equipment, books and CDs which would otherwise end up in landfill.
We have also introduced timber recycling where wood received at the recycling centres is now used to create animal bedding and other products rather than being sent to landfill.
Visit the Norfolk County Council website.
Highways – the Norfolk Strategic Partnership (NSP)
The NSP is a long-term partnership contract between Norfolk County Council, design consultants Mott MacDonald and ourselves.
The partnership covers maintenance and repairs to almost 10,000 kms of highways and footways including surface dressing; patching; gully emptying; weed spraying; verge maintenance; major surfacing; minor highways improvement schemes; and new major highway, bridge, and public transport infrastructure schemes.
The integrated team shares a co-located office and the NSP has a unified team culture with shared objectives, and an effective joint management and decision-making structure. We provide best value by improving efficiency in the delivery of projects and services.
The NSP has also delivered projects and schemes for other local authorities in Norfolk including Great Yarmouth Borough Council, Kings Lynn Borough Council and Norwich City Council.
Using the existing NSP contract enables these authorities to legally avoid the need to go to tender, with all the ensuing administrative and paperwork savings, while also guaranteeing work is carried out to a high standard by utilising the expertise within NSP.
Recycling services
We provide a seven-day a week service to enable people living in Norfolk to recycle domestic household and garden waste.
Under a long-term contract, we are responsible for the operation and management of the county’s recycling centres, including the transport of materials to other companies for reprocessing.
Recycled materials include metals, textiles, glass, paper, cardboard, cans, Tetra-Paks, fluorescent light bulbs, household and car batteries, engine and cooking oil, TVs, computers and other electronic and electrical equipment. Only as a last resort is anything sent for disposal in landfill.
All the sites use compactor units, which eliminate the need for members of the public to climb steps and gantries for around 60% of the material brought to the sites. The compactors also increase the weight of material carried by each truck, thereby decreasing the number of truck movements and reducing the carbon footprint of the operation.
Under the contract we handle in excess of 60,000 tonnes of waste annually through a network of 18 sites spread across the county.
The contract has a target recycling rate of 60% and we are working with the council to introduce best practices, additional recycling facilities and bring the sites up to a standard that will encourage further increases in recycling performance.
We also provide a scheme under which residents can bring their used vegetable oil to any one of 18 recycling points for it to be recycled, purified and converted into clean, renewable energy.
It has been calculated that if all Norfolk’s used cooking oil were recycled, the resulting biofuel could generate more than 13,000-megawatt hours of electricity per year - the equivalent to the annual average consumption of around 2,200 households.
We have also pioneered the introduction of reuse facilities in Norfolk at the new state-of-the-art recycling centre in Kings Lynn. This recycling centre, which was also built by May Gurney for Norfolk County Council, incorporates a dedicated shop where people can buy unwanted but usable items including furniture, sports equipment, books and CDs which would otherwise end up in landfill.
We have also introduced timber recycling where wood received at the recycling centres is now used to create animal bedding and other products rather than being sent to landfill.
Visit the Norfolk County Council website.
