Kitchen company on former Norfolk airfield hopes to keep biomass boilers |
Naked Kitchens based in a hangar at the old RAF base at West Raynham, near Fakenham has applied for retrospective planning permission for the two units which replaced two older boilers in 2024.
It says one heats water which is then circulated to wall-mounted radiators and a ceiling mounted space heater which blows warm air into the factory gluing area.
The other supplies hot water to radiators in the finishing room, along with taps in the workforce canteen.
The biomass fuel used is timber offcuts from building kitchen units.
"This takes advantage of on-site generated waste wood producing renewable heat for the factory," it adds in a planning statement.
"It also negates the use of fossil fuels and reduces the volume of lorries visiting the site which would otherwise have been collecting waste wood skips to take away for landfill disposal."
The units are described as "modern, highly-efficient and clean burning".