The First Milk Cheese Company Limited - Haverfordwest Creamery, Pembroke Road, Merlins Bridge, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, SA61 1JN

We’ve received an application to vary an environmental permit from The First Milk Cheese Company Limited

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

Application number: PAN-027140
Regulated facility type: The primary activity of this installation is the Section 6.8 Part A (1)(e) treating and processing milk, the quantity of milk received being more than 200 tonnes per day (average value of an annual basis).

The permit also allows the following relevant activities to take place:

• Section 5.4 Part A (1)(a)(i) disposal of non-hazardous waste with a capacity exceeding 50 tonnes per day involving one or more of the following activities – (i) biological treatment.
• Schedule 25A medium combustion plants.

Regulated facility location: Haverfordwest Creamery, Pembroke Road, Merlins Bridge, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, SA61 1JN.

This variation is to:

• Increase the maximum production capacity of the creamery by 227 tonnes per day – raising the allowed production from 1260 tonnes per day to 1487 tonnes per day. This will include the installation of new equipment, as well as the expansion of some existing equipment.
• Include a new chemical precipitation process at the Effluent Treatment Plant. This has the aim of reducing the amount of phosphorus in the wastewater before it is released.
• Due to changes in legislation, change the three existing 8 megawatt thermal (MWth) site boilers to Medium Combustion Plant (MCP) with associated emission limits. (One on-site 2.7MWth Combined Heat and Power engine is already captured as an MCP.)

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 6 March 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.