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The Planning Act 2008 The Infrastructure Planning (Applications: Prescribed Forms and Procedure) Regulations 2009 Section 37(3)(c) Planning Act 2008 The Proposed Rookery South (Resource Recovery Facility) Order Consultation Report 4 August 2010 Document Reference: 7.1 Covanta Rookery South Limited LDA Design 7.1: Consultation Report 2 Covanta Rookery South Limited LDA Design Contents 0.0 Foreword ....................................................................................................... 11 1.0 Summary ....................................................................................................... 15 1.1. Introduction ............................................................................................. 15 1.2. Consultation Outcomes .......................................................................... 16 1.3. Conclusion .............................................................................................. 22 2.0 Introduction ................................................................................................... 25 2.1. Background ............................................................................................ 25 2.2. The Applicant: Covanta .......................................................................... 25 2.3. The Purpose of this Report ..................................................................... 26 2.4. The Proposed Project ............................................................................. 26 2.5. Covanta‟s Application Strategy ............................................................... 30 2.6. Consultation Summary ........................................................................... 31 3.0 Pre- Application Consultation Strategy .......................................................... 33 3.1. Introduction ............................................................................................. 33 3.2. Current Guidance and Best Practice ....................................................... 33 3.3. Covanta‟s Approach to Consultation ....................................................... 34 4.0 Launch of Project Consultation, Winter 2008/Spring 2009 ............................. 45 4.1. Introduction ............................................................................................. 45 4.2. Public Consultation ................................................................................. 45 4.3. Technical and Statutory Consultation ..................................................... 46 4.4. Summary of key feedback from consultees during Spring 2009 .............. 54 4.5. Ongoing Consultation ............................................................................. 54 5.0 Summer/Autumn 2009 Consultation .............................................................. 55 5.1. Introduction ............................................................................................. 55 5.2. Public Consultation ................................................................................. 55 5.3. Public Exhibitions ................................................................................... 57 5.4. Technical and Statutory Consultation ..................................................... 68 5.5. Summary of consultation impacts on design Summer and Autumn 2009 81 5.6. Ongoing Consultation ............................................................................. 82 6.0 Community Liaison Panel .............................................................................. 83 6.1. Introduction ............................................................................................. 83 6.2. Purpose 83 6.3. Selection of CLP Members ..................................................................... 84 6.4. Members 85 6.5. Meetings 86 6.6. Outcomes of CLP consultation ............................................................. 110 6.7. Conclusion ............................................................................................ 113 7.0 Winter 2009/10 Consultation ....................................................................... 117 7.1. Introduction ........................................................................................... 117 7.2. Statement of Community Consultation .................................................. 118 7.1: Consultation Report 3 Covanta Rookery South Limited LDA Design 7.3. Notification of IPC ................................................................................. 126 7.4. IPC Environmental Scoping .................................................................. 126 7.5. Landowner Consultation ....................................................................... 128 7.6. Technical and Statutory Consultation ................................................... 130 7.7. Conclusion ............................................................................................ 138 7.8. Ongoing consultation ............................................................................ 138 8.0 Spring/Summer 2010 Consultation .............................................................. 139 8.1. Introduction ........................................................................................... 139 8.2. The Preliminary Environmental Report ................................................. 139 8.3. Public Response to the PER, including Information Line and Web Enquiries ............................................................................................ 142 8.4. Public Exhibitions ................................................................................. 146 8.5. Independent Media Coverage ............................................................... 157 8.6. The Community Newsletter................................................................... 158 8.7. The Health Impact Assessment ............................................................ 158 8.8. Technical and Statutory Consultation ................................................... 164 8.9. Further Landowner Consultation ........................................................... 174 8.10. Conclusion ......................................................................................... 175 8.11. Ongoing Consultation ......................................................................... 176 8.12. Statements of Common Ground ......................................................... 176 9.0 Conclusion .................................................................................................. 177 9.1. Introduction and Overview .................................................................... 177 9.2. Compliance with Statutory Requirements ............................................. 177 9.3. The Principles and Responses ............................................................. 178 9.4. The Community .................................................................................... 180 9.5. Technical Consultees and Statutory Consultees ................................... 181 9.6. Those with Interests in the Land ........................................................... 182 9.7. Consultation Outcomes ........................................................................ 182 9.8. Is There an Alternative? ........................................................................ 189 9.9. Conclusion ............................................................................................ 190 7.1: Consultation Report 4 Covanta Rookery South Limited LDA Design Appendices 1. Communication Strategy 2. Pre-Application Consultation Strategy 3. Press Release, November 2008 4. Meetings Tracker 2009/2010 - Draft 5. Presentation to BBC and CBC – 20 April 2009 6. Advertisements, Summer 2009 7. Direct mail to Addresses within 5km of the Site, Summer 2009 8. Letter to 220 Stakeholders, Summer 2009 9. List of Recipients of Stakeholder Letter, Summer 2009 10. Pre-exhibition Leaflet, Summer 2009 11. Pre-exhibition Poster, Summer 2009 12. Covanta Website Screen Shots, Summer 2009 13. Exhibition Boards, Summer 2009 14. Feedback Form, Summer 2009 15. Full Feedback from Summer 2009 Exhibitions 16. Architectural Studies Document 17. Community Liaison Panel (CLP) Terms of Reference 18. Independent Facilitator‟s details 19. CLP Agendas, Supporting Documents and Meeting Notes 20. CLP information Requests Outside Meetings 21. Independent Facilitator‟s Report 22. Draft Statement of Community Consultation (SOCC) 23. Central Bedfordshire Council and Bedford Borough Council‟s Response to the Draft SOCC 24. Notice Publicising a Proposed Development Consent Order 25. List of Prescribed Consultees for IPC Scoping Opinion 26. List of Non-Prescribed Consultees for IPC Scoping Opinion 27. Standard letter from Central Bedfordshire Council 28. Plan of land covered by DCO 29. Requisition for Information Notice (RFIN) 30. List of Recipients of RFINs 31. Letter concerning acquisition of land 32. Letter concerning discharge of rights over land 33. Responses to RFINs and Letters 34. CABE Correspondence, Winter 2009/2010 35. List of Prescribed Consultees for the PER 7.1: Consultation Report 5 Covanta Rookery South Limited LDA Design 36. Letter to Prescribed PER Consultees 37. NOT USED 38. Letter to Landowner PER Consultees 39. List of Non-Prescribed PER Consultees 40. Letter to Non-Prescribed PER Consultees 41. NOT USED 42. Information Line and Web Enquiries, Winter 2009/2010 43. Pre-Exhibition Poster, Spring 2010 44. Advertisements, Spring 2010 45. Letter to Bedfordshire on