APPENDIX A Hertfordshire Minerals & Waste Development Framework Authority’s Monitoring Report 1 April 2016 – 31 March 2017 1 Hertfordshire Waste Development Framework AMR 1 April 2016 – 31 March 2017 Table of contents Executive Summary ....................................................................................... 4 1.0 Introduction ......................................................................................... 6 Purpose of the Report ........................................................................... 6 Documents produced by Hertfordshire County Council ........................ 9 Sustainability Appraisal and Habitats Regulation Assessment............ 10 2.0 Current Minerals and Waste Policies ............................................ 111 The Current Development Plan System ............................................ 111 Waste Core Strategy & Development Management Policies Document .......................................................................................................... 111 Waste Site Allocations Document ..................................................... 111 Minerals Local Plan ........................................................................... 121 Unimplemented Minerals and Waste Policies ................................... 121 Unimplemented Minerals Local Plan Policies .................................... 122 Unimplemented Waste Local Plan Policies ....................................... 133 3.0 Monitoring of Waste Core Strategy Targets and Indicators ........ 155 4.0 Minerals and Waste Development Scheme ..................................... 23 Overview ............................................................................................. 23 Local Plan Production Timetables ..................................................... 244 5.0 Waste Monitoring ............................................................................ 277 Overview ........................................................................................... 277 Waste Core Strategy Future Capacity Requirements ....................... 277 Additional LAC Residual Waste Treatment Capacity (Waste Core Strategy Table 6) ................................................................................. 29 Additional C&I Composting and Recycling Capacity (Waste Core Strategy Table 8) ................................................................................. 30 Additional C&I Remaining Residual Available for Treatment Capacity (Waste Core Strategy Table 9) ............................................................ 31 Local Authority Collected Waste Arisings and Treatment 2015/2016 .. 32 6.0 Conformity with the EU Waste Framework Directive ..................... 33 Relevant Articles from the Directive .................................................. 344 Compliance with Article 4: Waste Hierarchy........................................ 34 The Hertfordshire Waste Hierarchy ................................................... 355 Compliance with Article 13: Protection of Human Health and the Environment ...................................................................................... 377 Compliance with Article 16: Principles of Self-Sufficiency and Proximity .......................................................................................................... 377 Compliance with Article 28: Waste Management Plans .................... 388 Compliance with Article 34: Inspections .............................................. 41 7.0 Duty to Co-Operate ......................................................................... 433 The County Council’s Fulfilment of the Duty to Co-Operate .............. 43 3 Appendix 1: Current Minerals and Waste Local Plan Policies ............... 455 Hertfordshire Waste Local Plan Policies (2011-2026) ....................... 455 Hertfordshire Minerals Local Plan 2002-2016 (Adopted March 2007) .......................................................................................................... 466 Appendix 2: List of Safeguarded Waste Sites (Per District) as of March 2017 ....................................................................................... 477 2 Hertfordshire Waste Development Framework AMR 1 April 2016 – 31 March 2017 Appendix 3: Mineral Applications Determined from 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017 (in date order) ................................................... 588 Appendix 4: Waste Applications Determined from 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017 (in date order) ..................................................... 61 Appendix 5: Minerals and Waste Development Scheme Timetable..66 3 Hertfordshire Waste Development Framework AMR 1 April 2016 – 31 March 2017 Executive Summary This is Hertfordshire County Council’s Authority’s Monitoring Report (hereafter referred to as AMR), which covers the period 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017 and follows on from the previous AMR which covered the period from 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2016. It has been written in accordance with Section 35 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (as amended by the Localism Act, 2011 and the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012). Since the publication of the last AMR, the Minerals Local Plan review has continued and the review of the adopted Waste Local Plan has commenced. The first key milestones for reviewing the Waste Local Plan will be over the next two years (2017- 2019) as set out in the Minerals and Waste Development Scheme (Appendix 5 of this document). The first stages of the review will include initial evidence gathering, an initial consultation and a call for sites (if required). The progress of the Waste Local Plan review will be monitored in subsequent AMR’s. In November 2016, the Waste Disposal Authority at Hertfordshire County Council revised its Local Authority Collected Waste Spatial Strategy. The revised Local Authority Collected Waste Spatial Strategy states that the Waste Disposal Authority considers that there is adequate capacity provided by existing privately owned facilities and facilities with planning permission to treat projected organic waste levels up to 2030/31 1. As a result of the findings set out in the revised Waste Spatial Strategy, Hertfordshire County Council, as the Waste Planning Authority, will no longer be reporting on the capacity provided to treat Local Authority Collected (LAC) Organic Waste for the identified shortfalls in Waste Core Strategy Table 5. The conclusions of the revised Local Authority Collected Waste Spatial Strategy will be taken into consideration in the review of Hertfordshire County Council’s adopted Waste Local Plan. Details of capacity provided since 2011 for the identified shortfalls in Waste Core Strategy Tables 6, 8 &9 can be seen in Chapter five of this report. The county council determined 14 ‘county matter’ (minerals and waste) planning applications during the period 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017. A summary of these applications is in the table below: 1 Wording from Hertfordshire County Council’s Local Authority Collected Waste Spatial Strategy October 2016 4 Hertfordshire Waste Development Framework AMR 1 April 2016 – 31 March 2017 Number of determined m inerals and waste applications (1 April 2015 to 31 March 2016) Type Number of Applications Number of Applications Approved Minerals 2 Waste 8 Number of Applications Refused Minerals 2 Waste 2 Total 14 During the period that this AMR covers, the county council approved eight waste planning applications and refused two. Although all the determined applications are county matter, none of the eight approved waste applications contributed any additional capacity to the shortfalls identified in Waste Core Strategy Tables 6, 8 & 9 (which are outlined in Chapter 5 of this report) due to the nature of the applications. The approved waste planning applications consisted of the following: • Four Variation of Conditions applications • One application for the demolition of two existing waste transfer buildings and the erection of two replacement and one new waste transfer buildings • One application for the consolidation of existing waste recycling operations and external ancillary works • One application for the erection of two glass reinforced plastic kiosks (to house electrical control equipment) • One application for the erection of a water tank and pump house Details of the fourteen county matter applications can be found in Appendix 3 and 4 of this report. 5 Hertfordshire Waste Development Framework AMR 1 April 2016 – 31 March 2017 1.0 Introduction Purpose of the Report 1.1 The Authority’s Monitoring Report (AMR) is a requirement under the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (hereafter referred to as ‘The Act’), as amended by the Town & Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012. The AMR is a means by which the county council shows the milestones that have been met within the Minerals and Waste Development Scheme (MWDS). If these targets or milestones have not been met, it provides an opportunity to explain why, and to put measures in place to progress. This AMR covers the time period from 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017. Overview 1.2 The introduction of the Localism Act 2011 and the amended Town and Country Planning Regulations in 2012 changed a number of requirements that were originally laid down in The Act. The Act originally introduced changes in the way in which planning policy documents are produced and also included a requirement to produce a number of other documents that included