South London Waste Plan
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z L B Croydon z R B Kingston z L B Merton z L B Sutton South London Waste Plan Sustainability Appraisal (SA) incorporating Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) RQ'UDIWIRU6XEPLVVLRQWR*RYHUQPHQW 6HSWHPEHU Executive Summary This SA Report on the draft South London Waste Plan (SLWP) Submission Version provides a comprehensive review of current and future waste arisings within the plan area; existing waste management sites, throughput and capacity; national, sub-regional and local policies; the key environmental, social and economic issues likely to be influenced by the plan and the likely impacts of each of the proposed policies and safeguarded waste sites on each of the sustainability objectives making up the SA Framework. The SA Report is accompanied by an Equalities Impact Assessment (EqIA) report and Habitats Regulations Assessment (HRA) screening. The report meets all of the requirements for the content of sustainability appraisals and strategic environmental assessments (SEA) laid down in national planning practice guidance and the SEA regulations respectively, and has been published to inform public consultation on the draft SLWP Submission Version from 6HSWHPEHU to2FWREHU (Regulation 19 consultation). It builds upon the SA Scoping Report and the SA Report on the SLWP Issues and Preferred Options document published for public consultation in October 2019 and takes account of representations received. The SA Matrix in Section 12 demonstrates that draft Policies WP1-WP10, which have been developed by the four partner boroughs as the proposed strategy for the new SLWP for 2021-36 (Option 1), will have significantly stronger beneficial impacts on the majority of sustainability objectives making up the SA Framework compared to either carrying forward the existing strategic approach in the current SLWP 2012 (Option 2a) or seeking to identify new waste sites in addition to existing safeguarded sites (Option 2b). The likely impacts of not proceeding with a new waste plan and therefore deleting the policies of the existing SLWP 2012 are shown to be overwhelmingly negative. Overall, the most important sustainability benefits of the preferred strategy include: ¾ promoting net self-sufficiency within South London;. ¾ promoting an environmentally sustainable strategic approach to managing South London’s waste arisings; ¾ promoting sustainable transport objectives by eliminating the need to identify additional waste management sites or ‘broad locations’ in the plan area; ¾ minimising air pollution and potential impacts on sensitive land-uses and vulnerable receptors (including equalities target groups) arising from waste facilities by reducing waste-related HGV movements on the strategic/ local road network; ¾ moving waste management practices further up the waste hierarchy by promoting waste re- use, recycling and recovery; ¾ helping to secure the transition to a circular economy within south London; and ¾ promoting local employment, South London’s economy and the competitiveness of the waste sector by safeguarding employment land and floorspace within strategic industrial locations (SIL) and other established industrial areas by no longer identifying these as ‘broad locations’ for waste uses. Further stakeholder feedback arising from consultation will inform the preparation of the final plan to be submitted to the *overQment. Page Contents ONE Introduction 9 Purpose of the new South London Waste Plan 9 Figure 1.1 The South London Waste Plan area 10 National planning policy requirements 10 Figure 1.2: The Waste Hierarchy 11 London Plan Apportionment targets 11 Table 1.1: Apportionment targets in the Draft London Plan 2017 11 Requirement for sustainability appraisal 11 What is sustainable development? 12 Purpose of sustainability appraisal (SA) 13 Consultation on SA Scoping Report 13 Consultation on SA Report on SLWP Issues and Preferred Options 13 Coverage of SA Report on draft SLWP Submission Version 13 Equalities impact assessment (EqIA) 15 Habitats Regulations Assessment (Appropriate Assessment) 16 Sequential test (flood risk) 17 Consultation arrangements 17 TWO Background to the South London Waste Plan 19 Current arrangements for waste collection and disposaL 19 South London Waste Partnership 19 The current South London Waste Plan 2012 20 Table 2.1: Combined London Plan 2011 Apportionments for the SLWP area 20 Preparing the new South London Waste Plan 2021-36 21 Table 2.2: Timetable for preparing the new SLWP 2021-36 22 THREE Current Waste Arisings and Capacity in South London 23 Evidence gathering 23 Waste arisings and forecasts for apportioned waste 24 Table 3.1: Forecast household and C&I waste arisings and Intend to Publish 24 London Plan 2019 Apportionments for 2021 to 2036 (tonnes per annum) Arisings and forecasts of other waste types 24 Table 3.2: Forecast CD&E waste arisings for the SLWP area 25 Table 3.3: Hazardous waste arisings in the SLWP area 26 Waste exports and imports 26 Existing waste management sites and capacity 27 Table 3.4 Sites Counting Towards the Apportionment 28 FOUR Sustainability Appraisal and Strategic Environmental Assessment 31 Government guidance and best practice 31 Main Stages of Appraisal 31 Key Outputs of Appraisal 33 Figure 4.1: Main Stages of SA in relation to the DPD Process 33 Table 4.1: Key Outputs of the SA process 34 Equalities Impact Assessment 34 Habitats Regulations Assessment (HRA) 35 FIVE Other Relevant Plans, Programmes and Sustainability Objectives (Task A1) 37 Policy review 37 International context 37 National context 38 Figure 5.1: The waste hierarchy. 40 London Context 41 Table 5.1: London Plan 2016 apportionment targets for South London 42 Table 5.2. Intend to Publish London Plan 2019 apportionment targets 43 Local Context 44 SIX Baseline (Task A2) 47 What is baseline information? 47 The Plan Area 47 London Borough of Croydon 49 Royal Borough of Kingston-Upon-Thames 49 London Borough of Merton 49 London Borough of Sutton 50 POPULATION 51 Resident population 51 Components of population change 2017 to 2018 41 51 Population projections 52 Population structure 53 Projected Change in Population Structure 54 Population density 55 Ethnicity 55 Religion 56 Household growth 56 Household projections 2021-36 56 Housing tenure by household 57 Car ownership 57 Social deprivation 57 Fuel Poverty 58 ECONOMY 59 Economic activity 59 Employment by occupation - economically active residents aged 16-64 59 Job Density 60 Employment projections 60 Unemployment 61 Employment sites 61 Occupancy of industrial land 62 Projected change in industrial floorspace 63 Projected land demand for industrial and warehousing uses 64 Projected land demand for apportioned waste as of 2016 64 Release of industrial land to other uses 64 Borough classifications for the management of industrial floorspace capacity 65 Town Centre Network 66 ENVIRONMENT 67 Traffic growth and congestion 67 Modal share 68 Road casualties 68 Road Network 68 Highway asset condition 68 Air Quality 69 Noise exposure 73 Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions 74 Climate change 75 Household waste recycling rate 76 Flood Risk 77 Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation (SINCs) 85 Species, habitats and ancient woodland 85 Green Belt and Metropolitan Open Land 85 Open Space 85 Green Infrastructure 86 Conservation Areas and Historic Environment 86 SEVEN Key Sustainability Issues (Task A3) 91 Identifying Key Sustainability Issues and Problems 91 Issue 1: Sustainable Waste Management: Self-Sufficiency 91 Issue 2: Sustainable Waste Management: Spatial Strategy & Strategic Approach 92 Issue 3: Sustainable Waste Management: Prevention, re-use, recycling & recovery 93 Issue 4: Sustainable Waste Management: Promoting the Circular Economy 94 Issue 5: Climate Change Mitigation 94 Issue 6: Climate Change Adaptation 95 Issue 7: Flood risk, sustainable drainage (SuDS) and water resources 95 Issue 8: Sustainable design and construction 95 Issue 9: Transport 96 Issue 10: Air Quality 97 Issue 11: Environmental protection 98 Issue 12: Biodiversity and Habitats 97 Issue 13: Local Economy and Employment 98 Issue 14: Historic Environment, Townscape and visual amenity 99 Issue 15: Human health and Quality of Life 99 Issue 16: Equalities, Accessibility and Social Inclusion 100 EIGHT The Sustainability Appraisal Framework (Task A4) 101 Developing Sustainability Objectives, Indicators and Targets 101 Scoring System 101 Figure 8.1: Scoring system for use in appraisal 101 Plan Monitoring 101 Table 8.1: Summary of the Proposed SA Framework 102 SA Framework for South London Waste Plan 103-112 NINE Identifying and Assessing Waste Sites (Task A5) 113 Review of existing waste management capacity 113 Existing waste management sites proposed to be safeguarded 113 Identifying sites for appraisal 114 Initial site profiling (Anthesis consultants) 114 Site appraisal methodology 114 Table 9.1: Site suitability criteria 115 Table 9.2: Site availability and viability criteria 116 Results of site appraisal 116 Table 9.3: ResuOts of site appraisal 117 ,QGXVWULDODUHDVSUHYLRXVO\LGHQWLILHGDVVXLWDEOHIRUZDVWHIDFLOLWLHVEXWQRW 121 SURSRVHGWREHFDUULHGIRUZDUG Table 9.4: Industrial areas previously identified as suitable but not carried 121 forward Sustainability appraisal of potential waste sites 122 TEN Developing Proposed SLWP Policies (Task A5) 123 Developing draft policies for inclusion in the SLWP Issues and Preferred Options 123 document (Regulation 18 consultation) Developing draft policies for inclusion in the draft SLWP Submission Version 123 (Regulation 19 consultation) Strategic alternatives