Using spatial waste planning

An integrated approach to planning for waste management considers in-building logistics, waste collection and waste treatment and the interfaces between them.

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The waste infrastructure delivery programme (WIDP) works with local authorities and the regions to accelerate the building of new waste management infrastructure for diverting municipal waste from landfill. This complements the waste implementation programme (WIP) in offering support to local authorities on meeting the landfill directive obligations.

Currently, the regional spatial strategy (RSS) should incorporate a strategy for waste management. This should include:

• identification of apportionments of annual rates of waste requiring management
• a spatial pattern of any waste management facilities of national, regional or sub-regional significance that may be required in the region and their broad locations
• supporting policies.

At a sub-regional scale, Cambridgeshire County Council has prepared a supplementary planning document on the location and design of major waste management facilities, providing guidance on the siting and development of waste facilities, and addressing design objectives and implications.

At a city scale, the local development framework (LDF) core strategy should set out a planning strategy for sustainable waste management that provides sufficient opportunities for the provision of waste management facilities in appropriate locations, as well as making space for waste storage and collection in new developments. The core strategy should be supported by land allocations, sites and areas, for new or enhanced waste management facilities.

Priority: plan for sustainable waste management
Tags: waste, regions and subregions, cities and towns