Identifying Waste Sites for North London Waste Plan

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Identifying Waste Sites for North London Waste
Plan

• Archie Onslow

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Structure

• Background to NLWP
• Methodology for identifying sites
• Feedback from consultation

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1 Background to the Plan
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Why a joint plan?

• Boroughs working together as planning authorities
  
• Share skills
• History of collaboration on waste issues in North
  London
• Find sites over 7 boroughs

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Where does NLWP fit in?

• National planning guidance
• Mayors London Plan
• Borough community strategy
• Borough local development framework

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Who is involved?

• Programme Manager
• Consultants Mouchel with CAG Consultants
• Steered by borough planning staff
• Heads of Planning
• Planning Members Group
• Ratified by boroughs at each stage

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What is NLWP about?

• Consider amount of different types of waste in
  2020
• Consider types of facility required
• Identify sites to deal with waste
• Deal with apportioned tonnage as minimum
• Consider CD and hazardous waste

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How NLWP differs from the North London Waste
Strategy

• Deals with all waste not just municipal
• NLWA or agents will have to submit planning
  application to boroughs
• Balances needs for waste facilities with other
  needs and aspirations in boroughs

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Timetable for NLWP

• Will finish in 2010
• Issues and options January 2008
• Preferred options January 2009
• Submission September 2009
• Examination March 2010
• Adoption December 2010

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Preferred Options stage

• Consider consultation responses
• Develop site options
• Include results from assessments on
  sustainability, habitats, flooding
• Policy framework

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2 Methodology for identifying sites
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London Plan broad locations

• Existing waste facilities
• Preferred industrial locations
• Local Employment areas

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NLWP site process

• Long list of sites
• Criteria
• Site visit
• Develop options

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Long list of sites

• Data sources
• Existing waste sites
• Data from GLA (2006)
• Data from NLWA
• NLUD-PDL (2006)
• Sites suggested by public consultation
• Sites suggested by boroughs

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Criteria 1

• Show stoppers
• Metropolitan open land
• Grade 1 agricultural land
• (Inter)national nature conservation
• (Inter)national heritage
• Category 1 flood plain

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Criteria 2

• Constraint based criteria
• Flood risk
• Opportunity based criteria
• Proximity to heat networks or development areas
• Scoring
• Weighting?

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Site visit

• All short listed sites to be visited
• Neighbouring uses, visual intrusion, site
  entrances
• Collect information for detailed planning

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Constructing options

• Assess capacity needs
• Construct range of options
• Assess options
• Additional policy framework

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3 Feedback from consultation
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Issues Options Consultation

• Website www.nlwp.net
• Information leaflet
• Advertising
• 7 public workshops
• 10 follow up meetings
• 300 attended
• 70 written responses

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Issues Options Responses

• Strong views on waste minimisation and on
  incineration and health
• Call for geographic and social equity
• Strong views on some locations
• Flexible on technologies but strong safeguards
• Growth figures and policy challenged

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Contact details

• Archie Onslow
• archie.onslow_at_camden.gov.uk
• 020 7974 5916
• www.nlwp.net