Bevan Brittan LLP has advised Plymouth City Council on a waste management contract with Viridor Waste Management Limited (Viridor). The contract worth £28 million was signed last month.

Viridor was selected to provide waste management services including the operation and maintenance of a Refuse Transfer Station being built at Chelson Meadow for receiving, storing, bulking waste and transferring by the provision of haulage services to a landfill site. The initial term of the contract is for seven years with an option to extend for a further five.

Simon Hancock, Associate Solicitor at Bevan Brittan commented: “Plymouth City Council were looking at long term strategies to meet the Government’s waste targets, it was given notice that the licence for its landfill site, used for the disposal of Plymouth’s waste, was to be revoked. Within this context, our specialist waste team was asked to help Plymouth put in place a short to medium term solution to meet its requirements for continued service provision in respect of its statutory waste disposal duties.”

Councillor Chris Pattison, Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member responsible for waste management added: “This contract will give Plymouth medium-term certainty as well as flexibility to develop its long term strategy for the city’s waste, considering the latest technologies.”

Mark Turner, Project Manager for the Council, said “without Bevan Brittan's contribution the Council would not have got there”.

The Bevan Brittan team consisted of Nigel Campbell, Simon Hancock, Dermot Duncan, Alison Buckingham, David Wardle, Sarah Lamont, Alec Bennett, Charlotte Scourfield and Joanne Sinar.