Demolition plan unveiled for cooling towers at Richborough power station
The landmark towers at the derelict Richborough power station will be demolished if the go-ahead is given to turn the site into a green power park.
Site owner Richborough A Ltd is having a masterplan drawn up by BFL Management Ltd for the park which could include a recycling plant for household, commercial and industrial waste and biomass and gasification plants – where waste is converted through heat rather than incineration into electricity. An anaerobic digester plant to break down waste from food and gardens is also planned, using bacteria in a tank to turn waste to compost and fertiliser.
A National Grid interconnector, using undersea cabling, will provide power to Belgium and vice versa. The National Grid has committed investment of £400 million in capital costs to the plan.
The plan does not include retaining the three cooling towers and chimney which loom on the landscape of the A256. A spokesman for BFL said: “The cooling towers and chimneys are not retained within the current masterplan. The structures themselves are in a poor state of repair. BFL Management Ltd has appointed local contractors DDS Demolition which is liaising with the local planning authority to ensure the necessary measures are taken with regard to their demolition.”
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