Waste Local Plan Annual Monitoring
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Nottinghamshire and Nottingham Waste Local Plan Authority Monitoring Report 1 April - 31 March 2019 Contents Executive Summary ................................................................................................... 4 Local Plan Progress ................................................................................................ 4 Economic, Social and Environmental Indicators ..................................................... 4 Waste Management Trends within the Plan Area ................................................... 5 Plan Performance ................................................................................................... 5 1.0. Introduction ....................................................................................................... 1 What is the Waste Local Plan? ............................................................................... 1 What does this report monitor? ............................................................................... 2 2.0 Overview of the Plan Area ................................................................................ 4 Economic, Environmental and Social Indicators ..................................................... 4 3.0 Waste Management within the Plan area ......................................................... 7 Municipal Waste (Local Authority Collected Waste) ............................................ 7 Commercial and Industrial Waste ....................................................................... 9 Construction, Demolition and Excavation Waste............................................... 10 Waste Movements ................................................................................................ 10 New Permissions for Waste Management Facilities ............................................. 11 Site Closures During the Current Monitoring Period ............................................. 12 Waste Management capacity update.................................................................... 12 Changes in Treatment Capacity since 2017/18 .................................................... 13 Recycling .......................................................................................................... 13 Composting and Anaerobic Digestion ............................................................... 14 Recovery ........................................................................................................... 14 Changes in Disposal Capacity since 2017/18 ....................................................... 15 Non-Hazardous Disposal Capacity ................................................................... 16 Inert Disposal Capacity ..................................................................................... 16 Restricted-user Disposal Capacity .................................................................... 16 4.0. Local Plan Progress ....................................................................................... 17 Adopted Policy ...................................................................................................... 17 New Waste Local Plan .......................................................................................... 17 Duty to Cooperate................................................................................................. 18 5.0 Waste Core Strategy Policy Performance ...................................................... 19 Data Sources ........................................................................................................ 19 6.0 Saved Waste Local Plan Policy Performance ................................................ 23 7.0 Conclusions .................................................................................................... 31 Local Plan Progress .............................................................................................. 31 Changes in Waste Arisings and Management Capacity ....................................... 31 Policy Performance ............................................................................................... 31 Glossary ................................................................................................................... 33 Appendix A – Existing Waste Facilities and Estimated Capacity in Nottinghamshire and Nottingham ........................................................................................................ 34 Appendix B – Waste arisings and management methods ........................................ 47 Appendix C – Additional waste management capacity permitted during monitoring period ....................................................................................................................... 49 Executive Summary All Local Planning Authorities are required to undertake regular monitoring of their Local Plans. This includes a review of the progress in preparing new documents and assessing how effectively existing policies are being implemented. Nottinghamshire County Council and Nottingham City Council have a statutory duty to prepare Local Plans covering minerals and waste. This monitoring report is for the Councils’ replacement Waste Local Plan, prepared jointly between Nottinghamshire County Council and Nottingham City Council. Although normally prepared annually this report covers the two-year period 1 April 2016 – 31 March 2018. A separate monitoring report covers the Minerals Local Plan. Local Plan Progress The Councils intended to prepare the replacement Waste Local Plan in two parts in line with national policy and guidance at that time. Part 1, known as the Waste Core Strategy, was adopted in December 2013 and sets out strategic policies on the broad location and types of waste management facilities needed. Part 2 of the replacement Plan was intended to set out detailed development management policies and site allocations, where appropriate, in a separate ‘Sites and Policies’ document. Work began to prepare the Part 2 ‘Sites and Policies’ document in 2014 but subsequent national policy guidance has encouraged a return to a single Local Plan process. To ensure that the waste planning policies for Nottinghamshire and Nottingham remain up to date the Councils decided to stop work on the Part 2 Plan and prepare a new Waste Local Plan which will review and update existing Waste Core Strategy policies, where necessary, and set out development management and site-specific policies where relevant. Saved development management policies from the original Waste Local Plan adopted in January 2002 will remain in force until they are replaced under the emerging plan. The first stage of issues and options consultation for the new Waste Local Plan is anticipated towards the end of 2019. Economic, Social and Environmental Indicators Expected increases in population, along with planned future housing and employment growth are likely to increase the need for appropriate waste management infrastructure. Waste Management Trends within the Plan Area The amount of municipal waste produced within the Plan area fell slightly during the monitoring period but there was an increase in the estimated tonnage of commercial and industrial and construction, demolition and excavation wastes. During the current monitoring period planning permission was granted for 43,000 tonnes per annum of treatment (i.e. recycling, composting, recovery and transfer) capacity and 530,000 m³ of inert disposal capacity. There are currently sufficient operational waste management facilities to recycle, compost or recover up to an estimated 3 million tonnes of waste per annum and planning permission exists for a further 1 million tonnes of treatment capacity if all of these facilities come forward. As at the end of 2018 there was estimated to be just under 100,000m³ of non-hazardous disposal capacity and 3.2 million m³ of inert disposal capacity remaining. The overall recycling rate municipal waste fell slightly during the monitoring period but the recycling rate for other wastes is assumed to be unchanged. Plan Performance The majority of Waste Core Strategy policies have either met the monitoring targets or are moving towards the target. Saved policies within the adopted Waste Local Plan remain broadly in line with national policy with the exception of Policy W3.17 on Green Belt which no longer reflects the more stringent test of ‘very special circumstances’ that is set out in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). 1.0. Introduction 1.1 This Authority Monitoring Report has been prepared by Nottinghamshire County Council and Nottingham City Council to report on the preparation and implementation of the Nottinghamshire and Nottingham Waste Local Plan in accordance with Regulation 34 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012. This monitoring report covers the following period 1st April 2016 -31st March 2018 1.2 The main purpose of the report is to review: - The progress in preparing the new planning policy documents that will make up the Waste Local Plan for Nottinghamshire and Nottingham - How well existing waste planning policies are working? - New national and other relevant policy guidance that needs to be taken in to account - The social, economic and environmental indicators that may influence existing and future waste policies. 1.3 Information on Local Plan progress is presented up to March 2018. Where significant issues and problems are identified, the report makes recommendations on what future actions are necessary