April Ready To Meet Environmental Standards

"Over the years Harwood Hutton have given advice to numerous clients to help them grow their businesses. Recent work has been no exception."

Next month West London Composting, one of Harwood Hutton's clients, hope to obtain environmental approval for their composting plans with actual business starting by the summer. This will be the culmination of a lot of hard work. Richard Hutton, one of the Harwood Hutton partners, has been working closely with Martin Grundon to help turn concepts into action plans and achieve results. Martin spoke with Richard last year when he needed some extra support and guidance. Although Martin was very comfortable with his overall strategy he needed assistance on how to approach various financial aspects, including raising substantial funds, and this is where Harwood Hutton and HSBC came in.

The two organisations were responsible for structuring a deal for Martin that ensured he could go ahead with his plans. Meanwhile, Sess Sigre partner at solicitors Turbervilles was negotiating a contract for Martin with the Local Authorities in Hillingdon. Martin is now in the final stage of development of a composting site in Harefield, Middx. The site will be capable of handling up to 50,000 tonnes of "Green Waste and Category 2 Food Waste" a year. It will be a huge operation and one of the few large sites in the country with such advanced technology.

The planning had originally started back in the late 1990s when Martin came up with the idea of composting wood and green waste. At this time it was quite a radical concept and from there the plans have grown. He has had to work hard to comply with tight environmental standards, and is now close to obtaining permission to go ahead. Richard comments: " This has been a great project to work on. It is fantastic to be involved in something that is so environmentally sound. The actual site has come on leaps and bounds since I started work with Martin and I have no doubt that West London Composting will be a big success. " Richard further explained how there had been several times when the project could have foundered if we had not "made things happen." Martin extols: " Harwood Hutton have been instrumental in helping me work through my plans. They have been a major contributor to the project".

The result will be a state of the art composting site. Nothing on this scale with this modern approach currently exists in the area. There are sites similar to this run in Germany, but the site will bring some new approaches to composting in the UK. The use of modern machinery will be key and a clean environment will be maintained.