Waste Data and LDF Preparation - Trevor Brown

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Pathway to Zero Waste Workshop 12 November 2010

Waste Data and

LDF Preparation

Trevor BrownPrincipal Planning Officer

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Waste Core Strategy - Purpose

• Identify waste capacity requirement• Plan for a period of at least 15 years • Identify a strategy for site identification• Set a policy framework for development

management

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Waste Core Strategy - Aims

• Self-sufficiency (as far as possible)

• Accommodate neighbouring needs

(where necessary)

• Identify how special needs should be met

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Waste Core Strategy - Process

• Establish (most) reliable base data

• Estimate future levels of waste

• Decide on how to manage the waste

• Establish existing waste capacity

• Develop strategy– for deficiency in waste capacity– for surplus in waste capacity

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Waste Core Strategy - ProcessC & I WasteCurrent 630,000 tpaEstimate 690,000 tpa

AimRecycle 70%Treat 25%Landfill 5%

ExistingRecycle 40%Treat 0%Landfill 60%

Develop StrategyRecycle requirement 189,000 tpaTreatment requirement 157,500 tpaLandfill surplus ???

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Waste Data: base data

• MSW: local authorities

• C&I: survey / E.A. data

• CDE: survey / E.A. data

• Haz : E.A. data

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Waste Data: Growth Rates

• Current trends

• Population/employment projections

• Waste targets on reduction

• Behaviour change

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Waste Data: Managing the waste

• European / National targets

• Regional Spatial Strategy (revoked)

• New focus on Localism– Municipal waste strategy– Recycling/composting/landfill diversion aims– Approach to self-sufficiency– Stakeholder consultation

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Waste Data: Existing Capacity

• Average annual throughput?

• E.A. Licensed capacity limit?

• Planning condition limit?

• Site size?

• Waste market / operator opinion?

• PPS10 Guide: ‘maximum amount a site can take in annually’

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Waste Data: how important?

• Berkshire Waste Core Strategy

• Submission to SoS

• EiP adjourned“…….if the base data of existing waste management facilities is incorrect, the requirements for additional waste management capacity….may be incorrect”

- Waste Core Strategy withdrawn

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Oxon: Waste Site Profile (content)

• Facility identification

• Contact Details

• Operator Aspiration

• E.A. data (throughput, capacity etc)

• Planning history

• Preliminary planning assessment

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Oxon: Waste Site Profile (process)

• Call for sites form

• Prepare draft profile

• Discuss Operator

• Finalise profile

• Monitor

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Oxon: Waste Site Profile (stats)

• Summer 2008 commencement

• 110 waste sites

• 149 separate facilities

• 87 site nominations

• 60% operator returns

• 36 completed profiles (to date)

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Waste Data and the LDF

Thank you

Questions?