WASTE PLANNING ISSUES

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• WASTE PLANNING ISSUES
• Mark Jones
• Deputy Director

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• Waste Planning
• Land Use Policy/Waste
• Development Framework
• Development Control

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• Waste Development Framework
• Issues Options consultation
• Sustainability Appraisal
• Need for waste facilities
• Preferred Options
• - Policies
• - Site Search

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• 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

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• 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

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• Sites
• Need to make provision for
• Range of facilities
• Range of scales
• Encourage co-location
• And
• Without being prescriptive about technology

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Site Identification

• Range of sites
• Household Waste Recycling Centres
• Waste Transfer Stations
• Energy from Waste facility
• Resource Management Parks

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Strategy for Municipal Waste

• Takes forward approach in the Waste Local Plan
• integrated approach
• reuse, recycling, composting
• recovery
• EfW in Area of Search
• disposal

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Development Control

• Waste management applications are County
  Matters
• Decisions in accordance with the Development Plan
• Waste Local Plan
• Waste Development Framework