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Introduction

Forward

1.1 This is the second Borough wide Local Plan prepared by North Borough Council. It replaces the Plan, adopted in May 1995.

1.2 In preparing the Plan the Council has taken into account the Policy of Others: • National Planning Policy laid out in Government advice and guidance, in particular the development of sustainable communities, achieving quality outcomes from the Planning process and integrating land use planning and wider community objectives. • Regional Spatial Strategy, in particular the regeneration of the Metropolitan area and growth restraint beyond; supporting rural communities and their range of services; achieving an integrated, multi- modal transport system; protecting natural, historic and cultural assets and recognising local distinctiveness. • Warwickshire Structure Plan which provides targets for the Plan period for new housing, affordable housing and industrial land and again achieving the balance between protecting the countryside and developing sustainable settlements. Community Plan and the community's recognition of the value of small local communities, their identity and the facilities that serve them; reversing the decline of community life; growth but not at the expense of the rural character of North Warwickshire and finally social inclusion.

1.3 During preparation of the Local Plan the 2004 Planning & Compulsory Purchase Act came in to force which made the Regional Spatial Strategy part of the Development Plan. In the West Midlands the RPG was approved in June 2004 and on commencement of the Act in September 2004 it became the RSS for the West Midlands and therefore part of the Development Plan for the Borough. This Local Plan has been complied primarily in response to the WASP under the old regulations with an end date of 2011. However where possible the Local Plan has also taken on board the RSS as well as incorporating latest Government guidance.

1.4 Perhaps the most significant change from the last Plan is in Housing where the Urban Capacity Study has led to the allocation of a number of new sites for development, to provide for affordable housing. The sustainability appraisal has helped locate these sites in main settlements and where local services are available. (The Urban Capacity Study was published as a background paper to the Local Plan). In the area of Environment, and in the drive for more sustainable development, the policies continue to focus on development restraint with greater emphasis on bringing remote worn out industrial sites back into countryside uses. In Transport, the need to achieve sustainability leads towards policies that favour public transport, walking and cycling to serve the movement needs of development. Consultation with local communities has consistently drawn attention to the high value placed on local facilities;

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Community Facilities policies seek to protect these assets. Finally towns have been recognised as important service centres for the wider rural areas of the Borough. In the Economy chapter the new Plan promotes policies in a number of areas to develop the viability and vitality of these towns.

1.5 Figures 1 and 2, show the location of North Warwickshire and the towns, villages and employment centres within the Borough.

1.6 This Plan is structured starting with a Plan Strategy and over arching Core Policies, which have shaped the approach. A series of topic chapters follow which give a snapshot of the local situation, the planning policies of others, an assessment of local needs and opportunities, and then the individual policies with their justifications and details of how the Plan will be monitored.

1.7 A feature of the Plan preparation, already acknowledged by Government, is the joint consultation carried out to develop this Plan and The Community Plan. This document is also being produced at a time of Government-led change in the Plan making process. It is hoped that the consultation undertaken, the statement of public involvement, overarching strategy and core policies, integration of plan issues around the aims of the Community Plan, the sustainability appraisal and linkages to Economic Strategy and so on will demonstrate a useful transition in Statutory Plan making.

1.8 A list of all North Warwickshire Borough Council planning documents is given on the Council's Web site: www.NorthWarks.gov.uk, and these are available for purchase at the Council House, South Street, , Warwickshire. CV9 1BG. The Forward Planning Section can be contacted by email at [email protected] and by telephone on 01827 719250 / 499.

1.9 This Local Plan is available on the Council’s website and copies are also available in local libraries throughout the Borough:

Atherstone Library Coleshill Long Street Birmingham Atherstone B46 3AY Warwickshire 01675 463307 CV9 1AX 01827 712395

Baddesley / Grendon Library Dordon Library Little Brum Roman Way Grendon Dordon Atherstone Tamworth Warwickshire Staffordshire B78 1RD CV9 2ET 01827 892519 01827 713765 Kingsbury Library Coleshill Library Bromage Avenue 19A Parkfield Road Kingsbury

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Staffordshire B78 2HN 01827 892587 01827 872333 Water Orton Library Library Mickle Meadow Bridge Street Water Orton Polesworth Birmingham B46 1SN Staffordshire B78 1DT 0121 747 7460

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BURTON- M1 UPON-TRENT East Midlands A38 Airport

LOUGHBOROUGH

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LICHFIELD

A5 M42

M6 TOLL TAMWORTH LEICESTER

M69

M6 ATHERSTONE

A38 HINCKLEY

NUNEATON

BIRMINGHAM A5 M6 TOLL National Exhibition Centre M1 Birmingham International Airport A45 M6

COVENTRY A46

M42

RUGBY A45 Baginton M42 A46 Airport National Agricultural Centre M45

M40 REDDITCH LEAMINGTON

WARWICK

NORTH WARWICKSHIRE BOROUGH COUNCIL Tel: 01827 715341 www.NorthWarks.gov.uk

Figure 1: LOCATION MAP NORTH KEY : NOTES : DATE : 10th May 2002

STATUS : DRAFT 1. Diagrammatic only Main Urban Areas COPIES SOURCE: J. Shilton Borough Boundary CAD FILE : NWLP01-LM Motorways

Other Major Roads SCALE : 1:300,000 approx. at A4 size

Railways Based upon the Ordnance Survey mapping with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office © Crown Copyright. 10km approx. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. North Warwickshire Borough Council Licence No LA07991X.

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A42

North West Leicestershire District Lichfield District No Man's . M42 Heath Newton . Regis Seckington

Austrey A38 Shuttington

.Alvecote A5 Warton

Polesworth

A453 Tamworth Borough .Birchmoor A38 Dordon Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Lichfield District Birch Grendon Holly Coppice Lane U/C . Kingsbury Link Middleton Cliff. Wood Baddesley Atherstone Carlyon Road Piccadilly End Ensor M6 TOLL Kingsbury Hurley .Baxterley Mancetter A446 Bodymoor .Common Heath . .Bentley Hurley . Marston .Ridge Lane Caldecote . Hartshill A5 .Wishaw Birchley Heath. A38 . Lea Marston Ansley MEREVALE Common Birmingham City Whitacre ESTATE Curdworth Heath . Church End . Hams Hall Ansley Highway . & Bedworth Borough Water Point . Old Arley M6 Orton Devitts . Daw Mill Green .Hill Colliery Coleshill Springhill Top New Arley . Coleshill Gun Hill. Astley Manor U/C ARBURY ESTATE

Maxstoke.

Corley Ash . PACKINGTON ESTATE Corley Moor . .Corley

Solihull City M6 A45 Metropolitan Borough

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NORTH WARWICKSHIRE BOROUGH COUNCIL Tel: 01827 715341 www.NorthWarks.gov.uk

Figure 2: TOWNS, VILLAGES AND EMPLOYMENT CENTRES NORTH KEY : DATE : 10th May 2002 Major Employment Areas Borough Boundary U/C Under Construction STATUS : DRAFT Motorways

Other Major Roads Outer Limits of Deep Coal Reserve Area COPIES SOURCE: J. Shilton Austrey : Towns and Villages NOTES : with Development Boundaries CAD FILE : NWLP03-T,V&EC . Middleton: Small Villages with no 1. Diagrammatic only Development Boundaries Based upon the Ordnance Survey mapping with the permission of the SCALE : 1:140,000 approx. at A4 size Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office © Crown Copyright. Deep-seam Mine Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. 5km approx. Large Estates North Warwickshire Borough Council Licence No LA07991X.

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Legal Status

1.10 The Council is required to review its Local Plan by Part II of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. This Plan replaces the Local Plan adopted in May 1995 and is the primary policy background to help make decisions on planning applications*.

* Section 54A of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 requires that a planning application shall be determined in accordance with the Development Plan, unless material considerations indicate otherwise. Such material considerations include government Planning Policy Guidance (PPG’s), the extent to which public consultation has taken place, and Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) which may have been subsequently prepared.

1.11 The statutory Development Plan comprises of the following documents:

1. North Warwickshire Local Plan, adopted July 2006 2. Regional Spatial Strategy for the West Midlands 2005 3. Warwickshire Structure Plan (WASP), adopted August 2001 4. Minerals Local Plan for Warwickshire, adopted February 1995 5. Waste Local Plan for Warwickshire, adopted August 1999

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CORE POLICY 4: Green Belt

The openness of the Green Belt in the Borough will be maintained and there will be a general presumption against inappropriate development.

2.15 Green Belt policy is a facet of National planning policy and around Birmingham is also an important component of Regional planning policy, established among other things to control the outward growth of the conurbation. It extends across the southern part of the Borough and by seeking to maintain openness in this area, has considerable influence on the overall distribution of development in North Warwickshire. Proposals for development will be considered in the light of the advice contained in PPG2 (or it’s successor) as outlined in ENV2.

2.16 The economic upheaval of changes in the mining industry is still a locally important factor particularly for relatively isolated former mining communities, for families with mining in their history and in the provision of services.

CORE POLICY 11: Quality of Development

All development will be required to be well designed and to respect and / or enhance its surroundings.

2.41 In addition to delivering suitable forms of development in appropriate locations, a main objective of this Local Plan is to promote high quality development at all times. Policies in this Plan, in particular those in Chapter 3 - Environment, are formulated with this objective in mind. Quality developments rely on a combination of factors including aesthetics of the buildings (ENV7 / ENV16) how water is dealt with (ENV8) and how development fits within the landscape, both rural and urban (ENV5 / ENV12 / ENV13 / ENV14). Other policies play an equal part in the achievement of quality developments such as how access is gained to a site and how cars and lorries are treated within a scheme. All are crucial in achieving high quality developments within the Borough.

ENV1 PROTECTION AND ENHANCEMENT OF NATURAL LANDSCAPE

Development that would neither protect nor enhance the intrinsic qualities of the existing landscape, as defined by Landscape Character Assessment, will not be permitted. Only where protection or enhancement is incompatible with proposed development might mitigation be considered as an alternative to protection or enhancement.

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Reasoned Justification

3.23 PPS7 advises that planning authorities should reassess the need for local landscape designations when reviewing their development plans. Instead of such designations landscape character assessment is identified as a tool for protecting landscapes that are highly valued at a local level but which are not protected by national designation.

3.24 The Council will undertake landscape character assessments of the Borough and adopt them as Supplementary Planning Documents. The first assessments will be of landscapes formerly covered by the Special Landscape Area (SLA) designation, the Environmental Enhancement Zone (EEZ) and the Area of Restraint, as identified in the 1995 Local Plan. In the interim, the Council will use the Warwickshire Landscape Guidelines (1993) as a means of fulfilling the role of the assessment in informing decisions about landscape character.

3.25 The Warwickshire Landscape Guidelines highlight that North Warwickshire encompasses the Arden and Mease Lowland landscapes. The Arden landscape is made up of seven landscape types which include Ancient Arden, Arden pastures, industrial Arden, Arden parklands, wooded estatelands, Arden river valleys and river valley wetlands. The Mease Lowland landscape is principally agricultural with large country estates.

3.26 The siting, layout, design and landscaping of proposals will be expected to protect, complement or enhance the identified characteristics of the landscape. Where the protection or enhancement of the existing landscape would stand in the way of an otherwise acceptable or needed development proposals for on or off site mitigation will be considered. However, mitigation will not always be acceptable especially where important features of the landscape would be lost or where the overall quality of the landscape would be eroded.

3.27 Where a planning application has an effect on trees, woodland or hedgerows the Council will expect that they will be retained and that special measures are taken to protect them while works are carried out.

3.28 Trees, woodland and hedgerows have a range of health and environmental benefits which include producing oxygen, ameliorating pollution, encouraging biodiversity and providing aesthetic value. The incorporation of new trees, woodlands and hedgerows within the landscaping schemes of new development will therefore be encouraged.

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ENV2 GREEN BELT

1 The outer extent of the West Midlands Green Belt in North Warwickshire is shown on the Proposals Map. Within this area, Government Policy Guidance Note 2 Green Belts applies.

2 Areas within Development Boundaries are excluded from the Green Belt.

Reasoned Justification

3.29Within Green Belts the primary aim is to maintain the open nature of the area, and there is a general presumption against development that is inappropriate to a rural area, except in very special circumstances. The general location of the Green Belt within Warwickshire is given in the WASP Key Diagram and the detailed boundaries are shown in the Proposals Map.

3.30The maintenance of the Green Belt is seen as a vital component in protecting and enhancing the Borough as an area of pleasant countryside, especially by preventing the incursion of nearby urban areas. The wholeness of the Green Belt designation is important, and further exclusions would reduce its effectiveness. Greenbelt boundaries were reviewed in the last Local Plan.

3.31It is intended that dispersed workings or employment sites be put back into appropriate Green Belt / rural uses as current operations / permissions cease.

3.32Policies on overall rural character and landscape enhancement apply throughout the Green Belt in North Warwickshire.

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1.0 INTRODUCTION

1.1 The County Council is required by the Town & Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended by the 1991 Act) to prepare a 'waste local plan' for guiding, encouraging and controlling development in the County "...which involves the depositing of refuse or waste materials..." (S.38). 1.2 In November 1994, the County Council published an 'Issues Document' to inform the public of the main issues that it thought needed to be addressed in the Waste Local Plan. Subsequently, a series of five 'themed' meetings were held in June 1995 to explore different perspectives on what the Waste Local Plan should contain. These meetings involved groups representing the District Councils, neighbouring authorities, the voluntary sector, Parish Councils, the waste disposal industry and statutory consultees. In April 1996, the County Council published a consultation draft of the Plan and entered into a period of consultation that lasted until the end of July. A total of 1018 representations were made by 270 correspondents in response to the consultation. 1.3 The Deposit Draft of the Plan was prepared in the light of those representations and placed on deposit in March 1997. A public inquiry was held before an independent inspector between 21 April and 1 May 1998 to consider the 469 representations made on the deposit Plan. Following consideration of the Inspector’s report on the public inquiry, the County Council has amended the Plan prior to adopting it.

1.4 In addition to the views of the public and consultees, the Waste Local Plan must take account of the European Community Framework Directive on Waste, the Government's waste strategy set out in "Making Waste Work" (Dec '95), Planning Policy Guidance Note 23 on "Planning and Pollution" (PPG 23), the "Regional Planning Guidance for the West Midlands" (RPG 11), the County Council's Structure Plan for Warwickshire, the District Councils' District Local Plans and National Policy Guidance generally. The Structure Plan provides a broad planning framework from which Local Plans will be prepared. The Local Plan should also have regard to any relevant waste management plan prepared under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (S.50).

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1.5 The Waste Local Plan will apply to the whole of Warwickshire. It will cover the period 1995-2005 because the most recent information available on waste flows are for 1995, and Government targets apply to the 10 years up to 2005. The Waste Local Plan is required by law to include a written statement of policies, the 'reasoned justification' for them, and an Ordnance Survey based map showing its proposals. An environmental appraisal of the Plan has been undertaken in accordance with the EC Waste Framework Directive and National Policy Guidance contained in PPG12 "Development Plans and Regional Planning Guidance" (Feb 1992). The recommendations for change made in the Environmental Assessment have been taken into account in producing the Deposit Draft. When the Waste Local Plan has been fully adopted by the County Council, it will be part of the Development Plan for Warwickshire and planning applications and appeals will have to be determined in accordance with it, unless material considerations indicate otherwise (Section 54A, Town and Country Planning Act 1990).

1.6 The Plan contains details of preferred areas for the development of the facilities considered necessary to meet the Council's Waste Strategy. It also includes policies by which applications relating to these and any other sites will be assessed. The Plan, therefore, does not preclude the consideration of applications for facilities beyond those expressly proposed.

1.7 The first part of this Plan details the County Council’s strategy towards the provision of waste management facilities in Warwickshire during the plan period 1995-2005. The second part states the land use policies and proposals which will apply in controlling the development of waste management facilities in Warwickshire, and which will work towards the main aim of the Strategy which is to reduce the amount of waste being landfilled in Warwickshire. The proposed sites in this plan are those that are required to implement the policies and work towards the overall reduction of waste. The list of sites is not exhaustive and any further proposals during the plan period will be judged against the policies contained in this Plan. The Implementation Section explains how the policies and proposals will translate to “on the ground” developments. The Appendices include a Glossary explaining many of the terms used in this plan and a list of the waste management facilities in Warwickshire.

3.0 POLICIES & PROPOSALS POLICY NUMBER 1 - GENERAL LAND USE IN EVALUATING PROPOSALS TO DEVELOP ANY WASTE FACILITY, THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE PROPOSAL MAKES A POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION TO RE-USE AND/OR RECYCLING OF MATERIALS AND SATISFIES THE PROXIMITY PRINCIPLE WILL BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION. PERMISSION WILL NOT BE GIVEN WHERE THE PROPOSAL WOULD; (I) CAUSE SIGNIFICANT HARM TO FEATURES OF NATURE CONSERVATION INTEREST

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(II) GIVE RISE TO A SIGNIFICANT RISK OF POLLUTION, INCLUDING POTENTIAL HARM TO LOCAL FEATURES OF NATURE CONSERVATION INTEREST (III) HAVE A SIGNIFICANT ADVERSE VISUAL IMPACT TAKING ACCOUNT OF THE LANDSCAPE CONTEXT (IV) HAVE A SIGNIFICANT ADVERSE IMPACT ON THE CHARACTER OF THE LOCALITY OR AMENITY OF LOCAL OCCUPIERS, BY REASON OF ODOUR, NOISE, DUST AND/OR LOCAL VISUAL INTRUSION, HAVING REGARD TO THE SENSITIVITY OF ADJOINING LAND USES AND THE PROXIMITY OF RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY (V) GIVE RISE TO TRAFFIC THAT WOULD ADVERSELY AFFECT HIGHWAY SAFETY OR HAVE A SIGNIFICANT ADVERSE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT WHEN TRAVERSING THE ROUTES WHICH GENERATED TRAFFIC IS LIKELY TO TAKE (VI) INVOLVE SIGNIFICANT LOSS OF OR DAMAGE TO AGRICULTURAL LAND WITHIN GRADES 1, 2 OR 3A.

Reasoned justification: 3.1.1 This policy expresses the basic development control considerations against which proposals for all types of waste facility should be judged. They apply equally to those facilities expressly proposed by the Plan and those for which permission may be separately sought. Proposals for waste facilities will also be considered against the policies and proposals in the other parts of the Development Plan. In addition to the Waste Local Plan, this includes the Structure Plan, the Minerals Local Plan and the relevant District Local Plan. Particular attention will need to be paid to proposals which fall within the Green Belt. In these locations development will be required to be consistent with the purposes of the Green Belt as set out in PPG 2 and to preserve its open character. The fundamental purpose of Green Belt policy being to prevent urban sprawl by keeping land permanently open.

3.1.2 The Council cannot countenance adverse impacts of any sort on designated historical, natural history, environmental or nature conservation sites of international or national importance, and will not support proposals which have any more than a minor impact on sites of local importance, unless the impact can be offset by measures secured, if necessary, through a planning obligation. Impacts on the environment and transport safety will have to be fully addressed in detailed assessments. In addition, the Council will need to be confident of the feasibility of a proposal gaining any necessary licences or consents from the Environment Agency.

3.1.3 Through the submission of a transport study, proposals should demonstrate that there would be no unacceptable adverse impact on transport safety, operation, the environment or the general character of an area on the routes along which the generated traffic is likely to take. This should also include evidence that opportunities to utilise alternative waste transportation modes have been given full consideration.

3.1.4 Under the Town and Country Planning (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1988, schedule 2, most types of waste management

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facilities require an environmental assessment if there are likely to be significant environmental effects by virtue of factors such as their nature, size or location. Proposals for the incineration or chemical treatment of special waste and for the deposit of special waste will require an assessment in every case. The Council will encourage early discussions with developers and the Environment Agency to ensure that all relevant environmental issues are identified and addressed at an appropriate level of detail.

3.1.5 Landfill and land-raising operations are, in principle, among the least acceptable forms of waste disposal in terms of sustainability. Therefore, where they are necessary, the controls on them must be firm and enforceable. Imaginative final landform proposals should be encouraged through consultation with the County Museum's geologists and ecologists so that the end result incorporates features of conservation value while at the same time producing added recreational and aesthetic benefits. Energy generating waste incinerators, MRFs, scrap yards, transfer stations, household waste sites and central composting facilities can also have adverse local environmental impacts, due to the very nature of the activities and the materials involved. So, they too require clear policies for controlling their impacts. However, the scope of control should be balanced with the need to ensure that initiatives to establish recycling facilities are not stifled where they will reduce landfill demand and pose no real threat to the environment. It is likely that operational problems are more easily overcome for recycling facilities than for landfill. Access to sites will be guided by the advice contained in the “Estate Roads Design Guide for Warwickshire” and the Highways Agency’s standards in TD41/95. The guidance in PPG 24 will be taken into account when dealing with development proposals where noise is an issue, together with prospective increases in ambient noise levels experienced by noise-sensitive development.

3.1.6 Where a proposal for a waste facility comes forward for a site that is within the Green Belt, it will be appraised against national policy guidance in PPG 2 and Green Belt policies within the Structure Plan and relevant District Local Plan. Advice in paragraph 3.12 of PPG 2, relating to engineering and other operations is likely to be pertinent to many proposals for waste facilities, and indicates that such uses are inappropriate development unless they maintain openness and do not conflict with the purposes of including land in the Green Belt. Where development is inappropriate it will only be permitted in very special circumstance and if any harm is clearly outweighed by other considerations. In relation to assessment of potential benefits arising from the provision of a waste facility, the proximity principle is one factor that will be taken into account.

POLICY NUMBER 6 - MATERIAL RECYCLING FACILITIES MATERIAL RECYCLING FACILITIES WILL BE PERMITTED IN THE FOLLOWING CIRCUMSTANCES: (I) AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF NEW AND ESTABLISHED WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITIES (II) ON INDUSTRIAL ESTATES AND

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(III) ON OTHER LAND WHICH HAS BEEN USED FOR A COMMERCIAL USE AND WHERE THE PROPOSED USE WOULD BE COMPATIBLE WITH ADJACENT LAND USES. WHERE THE PROPOSAL IS ASSOCIATED WITH A LANDFILL SITE, THE LIFE OF THE MATERIAL RECYCLING FACILITY WILL BE LIMITED TO THE LIFE OF THE LANDFILLING OPERATION.

Reasoned Justification: 3.6.1 Materials recycling facilities (MRFs) add value to mixed recyclable materials by reclaiming, sorting, washing or storing materials, prior to their sale or despatch to a reprocessing facility for recycling. MRFs are consequently essential to the shift in emphasis in dealing with waste, away from disposal and towards more sustainable recovery methods. In Warwickshire, in particular, they are likely to be crucial to reducing the need for landfill sites to take waste imports and household waste. The encouragement of a range of recycling initiatives, at a variety of sites, will help give impetus to the achievement of the Plan’s recycling targets .

3.6.2 The County Council as Waste Disposal Authority is proposing the establishment of materials recycling facilities for household waste separately or in combination with industrial & commercial, demolition and construction wastes, with a total annual throughput of at least 0.3 million tonnes, in the area of Nuneaton and the rural area of Warwickshire to the south and east of Coventry, on the sites of already established waste disposal facilities, quarries or industrial estates. Proposals for new operations should take account of existing local schemes for waste recycling/collection.

3.6.3 The Council's strategy set out in section 2 above explains that materials recycling facilities will be needed to cater for a wide range of wastes to be diverted from disposal by landfill to achieve Government targets. Elsewhere, MRFs have been built on sites up to 2 hectares with 5,000 sq. metres of buildings (e.g. at Milton Keynes) and handle a range of wastes, and a throughput of 100-150,000 tonnes per annum. In respect of recycling plants handling construction and demolition wastes, sites are likely to require a minimum area of 4-6 hectares to allow for feed stock and products to be adequately separated.

3.6.4 To deal with waste imports as close as possible to source, avoiding waste being hauled across Warwickshire, up to eight MRFs are likely to be needed in the conurbation and the conurbation fringe area of the County to cater for about 1.2 million tonnes of waste per annum. At least two of these facilities within the conurbation fringe corridor should be brought forward within the County. Green Belt policies as described in paragraph 3.1.4 of this Plan will apply to any proposals for MRFs on sites that are within the Green Belt.

3.6.5 Waste generated within Warwickshire which needs to be diverted from landfill in line with Government targets is likely to require at least two MRFs, with a combined throughput of at least 0.3 million tonnes, located in the Nuneaton area and the rural area south and east of Coventry. There is the option of locating them on existing industrial estates in or adjoining the main towns.

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