The owners of a farm are applying for permission to store bio fertiliser on their land.

Rayne-based Stacey Contracts submitted an application last Wednesday on behalf of the owners of Ovington Hall, in Clare Road, Ovington, to construct a storage reservoir for 15,000 cubic metres of digestate bio-fertiliser for spreading on the holding.

The reservoir would be built in one of the rear fields - the three acre Wood Field - owned by the hall.

The fertiliser would be from Tamar Energy’s waste plant on the Bluebridge Industrial Estate, in Halstead.

The planning document reads: "The site lies remote from the residential property, the nearest house being over 450m away.

"The soil banks will be grassed to provide a natural screening for the reservoir.

"Inert digestate is a low odour product that should cause no smells or other nuisance.

"Indeed, digestate has significantly less odour than other equivalent natural alternatives such as slurry.

"The digestate material will be brought to the site in agricultural tankers similar to those used to transport slurry or milk, and will then be distributed to the farmland using specialist spreading machinery.

"All traffic directly replaces that associated with importing inorganic fertilisers, and subsequent spreading."