ABLE2 (Kirklees)
A 16 acre former rail sidings on Walkley Lane, Heckmondwike could become the home to a second project to farm fish for food in an environmentally sound way.
The ABLE2 project is being planned by the Green Business Network (GBN) which has already established The ABLE Project (Wakefield). It will provide social education for Kirklees young people and could also host a visitor attraction linked to the Spen Valley Greenway.
Kirklees Cabinet approved in principal the plan at its meeting on Wednesday May 16. Cabinet member for the Environment, Cllr Martyn Bolt, said:
“This could bring to Kirklees and Heckmondwike a flagship environmental project and located next to the greenway network it will substantially underline our commitment to environmental issues".
"The council confirms its green credentials and intends to be a beacon council working with the Green Business Network to replicate the award-winning work that it has done in Wakefield and elsewhere on recycling and producing food through renewable resources."
Cllr Jim Dodds, Cabinet member for Children and Young People’s Service, said:
"I have seen the good work that the ABLE Project is already carrying out which not only encompasses the council's green agenda but gives youngsters who have not had the best start in life the opportunity to work on projects that prepare them for future employment and encourages them to become valued members of society. We should support the expansion of the project wholeheartedly."
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The current scheme in Wakefield has regenerated a brownfield site into a willow plantation which will be harvested to make biofuel. A woodland is also being planted which will host a nature trail for local people. The fuel produced by the willow plantation fires a boiler which provides hot water to heat the fish tanks throughout the winter creating optimum growing conditions for mirror carp, koi carp, tilapia and sturgeon (which could eventually produce caviar).
Graham Wiles of GBN says that the Walkley Lane project would host a bigger fish farm and would provide a training and education programme for youngsters excluded from school and those on community punishment orders.
"This is an innovative project with an eco build which will not only provide fish for food but also a training resource” he said. “It may also be possible to host a coffee shop and toilets for people making use of the Spen Valley Greenway."
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