THE APPROVED 38,000 TONNES A YEAR IS NOT A STATIC FIGURE
It is likely to increase year on year on year
The applicant’s own documents demonstrate a clear history of operational growth. Comparing material submitted with its previous 2019 application to the current 2024 proposal, its wider waste operations have risen. Over that period, they have grown from around 380,000 tonnes to more than 500,000 tonnes — an increase of approximately 32%.
At the same time, Cornwall Council’s Resources & Waste Strategy commits the authority to substantially increasing its recycling and composting, achieving 65% by 2035.
Achieving that target will inevitably generate considerably higher volumes of green waste and end-of-life wood requiring transport and processing.
AND ROSEWORTHY IS INTENDED TO BECOME THE LONG-TERM DESTINATION FOR THAT GROWING WEST CORNWALL WASTE STREAM.
At the December 2025 decision meeting, the applicant confirmed for the first time that the existing Splattenridden site would close and operations would move to Roseworthy — a significant change that had not previously been admitted or made clear during the application process.
Industrial Compost (Illustrative)
This is therefore not simply another local facility: it places Roseworthy at the centre of an expanding regional waste operation, receiving increasing volumes from across West Cornwall and potentially beyond.
This is not a fixed operation frozen at today’s approved tonnage. Everything points in one direction.
MORE waste.
MORE lorries.
MORE and yet more industrial activity.
