PLANNING TRANSPORTATION ESTATES WASTE PLANNING ISSUES Mark Jones

PLANNING, TRANSPORTATION & ESTATES WASTE PLANNING ISSUES Mark Jones Deputy Director www. cornwall. gov. uk

PLANNING, TRANSPORTATION & ESTATES Waste Planning • Land Use Policy/Waste Development Framework • Development Control www. cornwall. gov. uk

PLANNING, TRANSPORTATION & ESTATES Waste Development Framework • Issues & Options consultation • Sustainability Appraisal • Need for waste facilities • ‘Preferred Options’ - Policies - Site Search www. cornwall. gov. uk

PLANNING, TRANSPORTATION & ESTATES Preferred Options • Planning Policy for Waste Management Facilities • Used in decision making on applications • Principally concerned with: - Industrial & Commercial Waste - Municipal Waste - Construction & Demolition Waste www. cornwall. gov. uk

PLANNING, TRANSPORTATION & ESTATES Preferred Options - contents Primarily policy document: • Core policies • Promotional role in commitment to raise awareness about waste issues • Nature of facilities – visual impact, design, noise, odour etc; • Locational criteria • Identifies potential sites www. cornwall. gov. uk

PLANNING, TRANSPORTATION & ESTATES Sites Need to make provision for: • Range of facilities • Range of scales • Encourage co-location And • Without being prescriptive about technology www. cornwall. gov. uk

PLANNING, TRANSPORTATION & ESTATES Site Identification • Range of sites • Household Waste & Recycling Centres • Waste Transfer Stations • Energy from Waste facility • Resource Management Parks www. cornwall. gov. uk

PLANNING, TRANSPORTATION & ESTATES Strategy for Municipal Waste • Takes forward approach in the Waste Local Plan - integrated approach reuse, recycling, composting recovery Ef. W in Area of Search disposal www. cornwall. gov. uk

PLANNING, TRANSPORTATION & ESTATES Central Cornwall Energy from Waste Facility • Locational factors; road & rail, heat consumers, grid connection, central • 108 km 2 • 4 -5 ha site required • 46 potential sites examined within, or close to, the Central Cornwall Area of Search www. cornwall. gov. uk

PLANNING, TRANSPORTATION & ESTATES Central Cornwall Energy from Waste Facility - Each site assessed and weighted against a number of criteria including; - Number of sensitive receptors Rail & road access Landscape/visual impact Land classification Power/heat consumption Ecology Archaeology Surface water drainage & flooding www. cornwall. gov. uk

PLANNING, TRANSPORTATION & ESTATES The Sites Energy from Waste Facility within central Cornwall at one of: • Rostowrack Farm, Parkandillick • Rock Dryers, Bugle • Adjacent to Victoria Business Park • Wheal Remfry, Fraddon www. cornwall. gov. uk

PLANNING, TRANSPORTATION & ESTATES Provisional WDF Timetable • May/June 2005 • April/May 2006 • November 2006 • June 2007 - • December 2007 - Issues & Options Consultation Preferred Options Consultation Submission to Secretary of State Independent Examination Adoption www. cornwall. gov. uk

PLANNING, TRANSPORTATION & ESTATES Development Control • Waste management applications are “County Matters” • Decisions in accordance with the Development Plan - Waste Local Plan - Waste Development Framework www. cornwall. gov. uk