Shotton Mill Limited - Shotton Paper Mill, Weighbridge Road, Shotton, Deeside, Flintshire, CH5 2LL

We’ve received an application to vary an environmental permit from Shotton Mill Limited

Substantial variation to an environmental permit under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016.

Application number: PAN-029803
Regulated facility type: Primary Activity: Installation - Schedule 1 Activity   Section 6.1, Part A(1)(b) – producing in an industrial plant, paper and board where the plant has a production capacity of more than 20 tonnes per day.

Other Installation Schedule 1 Activities;

• Section 1.1, Part A(1)(a) – burning any fuel in an appliance with a rated thermal input of 50MW or more.
• Section 5.1, Part A(1)(b) – the incineration of non-hazardous waste in an incineration or co-incineration plant in a facility with a capacity exceeding 3 tonnes per hour.
• Section 5.4, Part A(1)(a)(i) – disposal of non-hazardous waste in a facility exceeding 50 tonnes per day by biological treatment.

Regulated facility location: Shotton Paper Mill, Weighbridge Road, Shotton, Deeside, Flintshire, CH5 2LL

Shotton Mill Limited have applied to vary their environmental permit for Shotton Paper Mill (EPR/BT4885IT) to reflect the site’s production changing from  newspaper print to the production of containerboard from recycled fibre (750,000 tonnes per annum) and tissue paper from a mix recycled fibre and virgin fibre (70,000 tonnes per annual).

This will result in the following changes to the site;

• Addition of a new containerboard machine and tissue production with associated facilities. This includes new point source emissions to air from the machines and dryers.
• The application of best available techniques for the activities carried out onsite.
• New combined heat and power (CHP) plant which will initially comprise of 2 x 23 MWth gas turbines fuelled on natural gas each with a 75 meter stack. A third gas turbine is to be put in at a later date. The CHP will also include 2 x 34 MWth backup boilers with a 30 meter stack.
• Modifications to the effluent treatment plant which will include the addition of a new anaerobic digestion plant, biogas storage and a biogas fuelled engines (both 5.8MWth, each with a 24 meter stack). The effluent treatment plant will also have a new containment system installed. The changes in the effluent treatment plant will not result in any new emissions or increase of emissions limits and volumes to water over what is currently permitted.

The application contains a description of how the proposed changes will affect the installation; the materials, substances and energy it will use and generate; the conditions of its site; the source, nature and quantity of its foreseeable emissions and their potential impact, the proposed techniques for preventing, reducing, and monitoring its emissions and preventing and recovering waste; and an outline of the main alternatives, if any, considered.

You can see the application documents free of charge, from our online public register. Or you can request a copy of the information from us. This may take time to process and there could be a charge.

If you have any comments, send these by 25/03/2026.

Email: permittingconsultations@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk

Or write to:
Permitting Service
Natural Resources Wales
Crown Buildings
Cathays Park
Cardiff
CF10 3NQ

We must decide whether to grant or refuse the application. If we grant it, we must decide what conditions to include in the permit. You can find information about how we make decisions in our Public Participation Statement.