Essex and Southend-On-Sea Waste Local Plan Adopted July 2017
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Essex and Southend-on-Sea Waste Local Plan Adopted July 2017 Foreword Waste Local Plan - Foreword Foreword This Waste Local Plan has been prepared to help ensure we can deal with all types of waste arising in Essex and Southend, now and in the future, in a way which is least damaging to the environment and helps maintain the best possible quality of life for our residents. The Plan forms part of the statutory development plan and provides the policies for planning decisions for all forms of waste management development in the administrative areas of both authorities. All households, businesses and industries in Essex and Southend-on-Sea produce waste. Much is already being done to reduce, re-use or recycle that waste wherever possible or to find some other beneficial use for the materials we throw away. The continuing challenge we have is to introduce better, more sustainable, ways of dealing with waste whilst continuing to reduce the historical dependence we have had on landfill. Throughout its preparation this Plan has been shaped by comments from a large variety of interests – be it residents, businesses, public bodies and organisations. We are extremely grateful for all your contributions and your feedback has been used to inform this final version of the Plan. In particular we have placed great emphasis on local communities taking part in policy making and significant efforts have been made to ensure all those likely to be affected by the Plan have the opportunity to be involved in its preparation. The Waste Local Plan will help ensure that future waste needs of Essex and Southend- on-Sea can be appropriately met through sites situated in the most appropriate locations and with minimal impact on communities and the environment. The waste planning policies found in this document provide up-to-date planning policy for waste development in Essex and Southend-on-Sea until 2032. We will annually monitor the effectiveness of these policies to ensure that they are implemented successfully and publish the results. The Plan provides an approach that provides some certainty over the location of future waste management development. We believe the vision, strategies, policies and sites outlined in the Plan put us in a good position to be able to manage all the waste we produce, now and in the future, in the most sustainable way possible. Sue Lissimore, Cabinet Member for Housing, Mark Flewitt, Executive Councillor for Property and Planning, Essex County Council Housing, Planning and Sustainability, Southend-on-Sea Borough Council Essex County Council & Southend-on-Sea Borough Council Waste Local Plan - Contents 1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................7 2 Spatial Context ...................................................................................................................9 3 Policy Context....................................................................................................................17 4 Waste Management Context.............................................................................................19 Existing Waste Management Capacity...........................................................................20 The Waste Challenge - At a Glance...............................................................................28 Future Waste Capacity Requirements...........................................................................30 5 The Strategy........................................................................................................................33 6 Need and Safeguarding.....................................................................................................40 7 Strategic Waste Management Allocations.......................................................................45 8 Areas of Search and Locational Criteria.........................................................................49 Introduction....................................................................................................................50 4 Areas of Search.............................................................................................................51 Locational Criteria for Waste Management Facilities....................................................54 9 Development Management Policies................................................................................64 Introduction....................................................................................................................65 General Considerations for Waste Management Proposals..........................................67 Mitigating and Adapting to Climate Change...................................................................75 Transportation of Waste.................................................................................................77 Landraising....................................................................................................................79 Landfill mining and Reclamation....................................................................................81 10 Implementation, monitoring and review..........................................................................83 Appendices A Appendix A - Policy Context............................................................................................ 88 Essex County Council & Southend-on-Sea Borough Council Waste Local Plan - Contents B Appendix B - Allocated Sites: Development Principles.........................................97 C Appendix C - Development Excluded from Safeguarding Provisions................137 D Appendix D - Summary of Site Identification and Assessment Methodology....140 E Appendix E - Areas of Search: Development Principles.......................................143 F Appendix F - Glossary ............................................................................................177 G Appendix G - Roles and Responsibilities............................................................. 184 H Appendix H - Policy Schedule............................................................................... 186 5 Essex County Council & Southend-on-Sea Borough Council 1 Introduction Waste Local Plan - Introduction 1 Introduction 1.1 Sustainable waste management is a key challenge facing Essex and Southend-on- Sea now and in the future. There is a need to move away from traditional forms of waste management towards greater levels of re-use, recycling and recovery. 1.2 The planning system has an important role to play in achieving this goal. Planning helps to ensure the new facilities required are sited in the most suitable locations and are well designed and carefully managed. Furthermore, the Planning Authorities have to take into account the need to minimise the amount of waste produced and existing targets for recycling, recovery and the amount of residual waste being landfilled. 1.3 Essex County Council (ECC) and Southend-on-Sea Borough Council (SBC) are Waste Planning Authorities (WPAs) and as such are required to prepare a Waste Local Plan to replace the existing joint Plan that was adopted in 2001. ECC and SBC have worked jointly to produce a Waste Local Plan (WLP) to cover both administrative areas (hereafter referred to as the “Plan area”). Producing a Waste Local Plan is required under the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act (2004) and the EU Waste Framework Directive. What is ‘Waste’? 1.4 The legal definition of waste in the UK is derived from the EU Waste Framework 8 Directive (Directive 2008/98/EC). The Directive states that ‘waste’ is:- “Any substance or object which the holder discards or intends or is required to discard”. 1.5 In basic terms ‘waste’ is anything that you decide to, or are required to, throw away. Even if the substance is given to someone else to be reused or recycled, it is still legally considered waste if it is no longer required by the person who produced it. Materials that are technically ‘waste’ are, however, increasingly being seen as a potential resource for use in manufacturing or other processes. Such an approach helps to reduce the amount of waste requiring disposal. 1.6 The WLP provides the framework for determining planning applications for new waste facilities and changes to existing waste facilities. 1.7 The Plan provides the key principles and policies to guide the future management of waste in the Plan area up until 2032. Primarily, this includes the spatial vision, strategic objectives, spatial strategy, core policies, development management policies and a monitoring framework. A full schedule of all of the policies included in this Plan are set out in H ‘Appendix H - Policy Schedule’. 1.8 Within the Plan area there are a number of organisations involved in planning for waste, the management of waste, and the regulation of waste. The different roles of the organisations and their responsibilities are outlined in G ‘Appendix G - Roles and Responsibilities’. Essex County Council & Southend-on-Sea Borough Council Waste Local Plan - Introduction 2 Spatial Context 9 Essex County Council & Southend-on-Sea Borough Council ›› Waste Local Plan - Spatial Context 2 Spatial Context 2.1 The purpose of this chapter is to set out the spatial and policy context for the Waste Local Plan by providing a summary of the Plan area characteristics that have an influence on waste arisings, and how and where this waste can be managed. 2.2 The Plan area comprises the administrative