Buckinghamshire MWLDF Annual Monitoring Report 2010/11 Contents Page 1 The Role of the Annual Monitoring Report (AMR) .......................................8 2 The Buckinghamshire Minerals and Waste Local Development Framework ...........................................................................................................10 3 Mineral Production in Buckinghamshire ....................................................15 Annual Production & Sales.................................................................................15 Reserves ............................................................................................................16 Aggregate Applications, Permission and Refusals.............................................19 Secondary materials and aggregate recycling ...................................................19 4 Waste Management Strategy .......................................................................25 Waste Communication, Reduction and Enforcement.........................................25 Current and future recycling and composting.....................................................31 Waste Procurement (Energy from Waste Initiative) ...........................................32 The Relationship of the MWLDF to the Municipal Waste Management Strategy and Procurement................................................................................................34 5 Waste Generation and Existing Waste Management Capacity in Bucks....................................................................................................................36 Total Waste Arisings ..........................................................................................36 Breakdown of actual waste stream tonnages managed in Bucks ......................37 Municipal Solid Waste – management and disposal method .............................37 Hazardous Waste...............................................................................................40 Commercial and Industrial Waste ......................................................................40 Construction and Demolition Waste ...................................................................41 Total and Additional Waste Management Capacity required by 2026................41 Municipal Solid Waste........................................................................................42 HWRC end destination data...............................................................................42 Commercial and Industrial Waste ......................................................................42 Construction and Demolition Waste ...................................................................42 Hazardous Waste Capacity................................................................................44 Additional Landfill Capacity ................................................................................44 Current capacity permissions .............................................................................45 6 Monitoring of Planning Applications ..........................................................46 2010/11 mineral and waste permitted applications ............................................47 Screening and Scoping Opinions .......................................................................49 Appeals against non determination, conditions attached to planning permission and refusals........................................................................................................51 S106 Agreements / Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) .....................................51 1 Buckinghamshire MWLDF Annual Monitoring Report 2010/11 7 Enforcement and Monitoring .......................................................................53 Planning Enforcement ........................................................................................53 Monitoring of Active Minerals and Waste Sites ..................................................58 8 Environment ..................................................................................................60 Natural Environment...........................................................................................60 Rights of Way.....................................................................................................61 Influences of Sustainability into the Core Strategy process................................62 9 Policy Analysis..............................................................................................64 Development Management Application decisions..............................................64 Development of the Local Development Framework..........................................67 Appendix 1: Minerals site locations in Buckinghamshire .............................68 Appendix 2: Waste site locations in Buckinghamshire .................................69 Appendix 3: HWRC site locations in Buckinghamshire.................................70 Appendix 4: Aftercare site locations in Buckinghamshire ............................71 Appendix 5: Mineral Restoration Schemes in Buckinghamshire..................72 Appendix 6: Schedule of proposed Minerals and Waste Development Documents for Buckinghamshire ......................................................................73 Appendix 7: HWRC Municipal Waste 2009/10 figures (tonnes) .....................74 Appendix 8: Buckinghamshire Estimated waste capacity figures 2008 to end of 2010...........................................................................................................75 Appendix 9: Planning and Lawful Development Certificate Applications for minerals and waste facilities in Bucks determined between 1st April 2010 and 31st March 2011....................................................................................82 Appendix 10: Planning Enforcement Case Studies in Buckinghamshire......85 2 Buckinghamshire MWLDF Annual Monitoring Report 2010/11 Appendix 11: Environment – Agreed Mineral and Waste Restoration and Aftercare Schemes ..............................................................................................87 Appendix 12: Consented Waste sites and Biodiversity Opportunity Areas...91 Appendix 13: Consented Mineral sites and Biodiversity Opportunity Areas ....................................................................................................................92 Appendix 14: Buckinghamshire: End destination HWRC data for 2010/11....93 Appendix 15: Relevant Contacts within Planning, Environment and Development Service ..........................................................................................95 Glossary ...............................................................................................................96 3 Buckinghamshire MWLDF Annual Monitoring Report 2010/11 Figures Page Figure 1: Buckinghamshire County boundary................................................... 7 Figure 2: The County Council’s current expectations of how the saved BM&WLP policies will be replaced. ...................................................................11 Figure 3: The suite of Minerals and Waste Development Plan Documents....14 Figure 4: Sales of Sand and Gravel in Buckinghamshire 1997 – 2010 (rounded)..............................................................................................................15 Figure 5: Sales of Sand and Gravel in Buckinghamshire 1995 – 2010 ...........16 Figure 6: Sand and Gravel Sales, Permissions and Reserves 2008 to 2010 (Tonnes) ...............................................................................................................17 Figure 7: Active, Dormant, Ceased and Inactive Aggregate Sand, Gravel, Clay and Chalk Sites in Buckinghamshire, November 2011............................17 Figure 8: Sales of aggregate at Rail Depots (tonnes).......................................20 Figure 9: Operational Aggregate Rail Depots included within the amalgamated sales tonnages for Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes and Oxfordshire ..........................................................................................................21 Figure 10: Active and Inactive Sites Producing Recycled Aggregates in Buckinghamshire at November 2011.................................................................21 Figure 11: Agreed Mineral Restoration Schemes .............................................22 Figure 12: Bulky Waste Scenarios .....................................................................27 Figure 13 : Schools activities 2010/11 against previous years........................28 Figure 14: Submitted cases – Calendar year ....................................................29 Figure 15: shows the significant decrease in fly-tipping incidents as a result of the campaign...................................................................................................30 Figure 15a: Flytipping cases submitted between 2004 and 2011....................31 Figure 17: Actual and Estimated Total Waste Managed in Bucks...................36 Figure 18: Current and estimated percentages of waste managed in Buckinghamshire ................................................................................................37 Figure 19: Buckinghamshire Municipal Waste Arisings (Tonnes) and Management method...........................................................................................38 4 Buckinghamshire MWLDF Annual Monitoring Report 2010/11 Figure 20: The management of Buckinghamshire’s Municipal Waste Arisings