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This document outlines the strategic framework for waste planning and management in Central Cornwall, addressing the need for various waste facilities including industrial, commercial, and municipal waste management. It highlights the Sustainability Appraisal, Preferred Options, and the consultation process for engaging the community. Key considerations include the visual and environmental impact of waste facilities, potential site identification, and locational criteria. The framework is integral to decision-making regarding planning applications and emphasizes an integrated approach to waste management, encouraging reuse, recycling, and recovery practices.
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WASTE PLANNING ISSUES Mark Jones Deputy Director
Waste Planning • Land Use Policy/Waste Development Framework • Development Control
Waste Development Framework • Issues & Options consultation • Sustainability Appraisal • Need for waste facilities • ‘Preferred Options’ - Policies - Site Search
Preferred Options • Planning Policy for Waste Management Facilities • Used in decision making on applications • Principally concerned with: - Industrial & Commercial Waste - Municipal Waste - Construction & Demolition Waste
Preferred Options - contents Primarily policy document: • Core policies • Promotional role in commitment to raise awareness about waste issues • Nature of facilities – visual impact, design, noise, odour etc; • Locational criteria • Identifies potential sites
Sites Need to make provision for: • Range of facilities • Range of scales • Encourage co-location And • Without being prescriptive about technology
Site Identification • Range of sites • Household Waste & Recycling Centres • Waste Transfer Stations • Energy from Waste facility • Resource Management Parks
Strategy for Municipal Waste • Takes forward approach in the Waste Local Plan • integrated approach • reuse, recycling, composting • recovery • EfW in Area of Search • disposal
Central Cornwall Energy fromWaste Facility • Locational factors; road & rail, heat consumers, grid connection, central • 108km2 • 4-5ha site required • 46 potential sites examined within, or close to, the Central Cornwall Area of Search
Central Cornwall Energy from Waste Facility - Each site assessed and weighted against a number of criteria including; - Number of sensitive receptors - Rail & road access - Landscape/visual impact - Land classification - Power/heat consumption - Ecology - Archaeology - Surface water drainage & flooding
The Sites Energy from Waste Facility within central Cornwall at one of: • Rostowrack Farm, Parkandillick • Rock Dryers, Bugle • Adjacent to Victoria Business Park • Wheal Remfry, Fraddon
Provisional WDF Timetable • May/June 2005- Issues & Options Consultation • April/May 2006- Preferred Options Consultation • November 2006 - Submission to Secretary of State • June 2007 - Independent Examination • December 2007 - Adoption
Development Control • Waste management applications are “County Matters” • Decisions in accordance with the Development Plan • Waste Local Plan • Waste Development Framework