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Overview
The Consultation Draft RWP 1st Review contains two separate main elements:
| • the ‘RWP
Technology Strategy’ – which provides strategic information
on the types waste of management / resource recovery facilities required
in South East Wales; and • the ‘RWP Spatial Strategy’ – which provides strategic information on the types of locations likely to be acceptable. |
The plan does not bring
the two elements together in order to identify which technologies should be
located at which site or in which Area of Search.
Foreword &
Non-Technical Summary (168k)
Consultation
Draft RWP 1st Review (1.8Mb)
The following two broad principles for the viewing and use of the Areas of
Search maps must be noted:
1) The sole purpose of the Areas of Search maps is to identify Areas of
Search at a strategic level for use by Local Planning Authorities during the
Local Development Plan preparation process – as a starting point
for more detailed local level assessments to identify appropriate sites for
waste management facilities in Local Development Plans.
2) Because the sole purpose of the Areas of Search maps is to identify Areas
of Search at the strategic level, the Areas of Search maps must not be
used by any organization or individual to determine the appropriateness of
proposals for individual waste management facilities. The Areas of Search
maps must not be used by Local Planning Authorities as a development control
tool.
More detailed principles
for the viewing and use of the Areas of Search maps can be found in Section
12.3 of the Consultation Draft
Regional Waste Plan 1st Review document
Areas of Search
Map for In-Building Facilities (4.6Mb)
Areas
of Search Map for Open-Air Facilities (4.5Mb)
The RWP Technology Strategy
Based on the results of the Life
Cycle Assessment and Sustainability
Appraisal, and given that the Strategic
Environmental Assessment concludes that no clear leader emerges from amongst
the Options, and given that the strategic
Health Impact Assessment concludes that while Options 2, 3 and 4 are good
from a public health perspective there is no single best Option, the best
performing seven sub-Options in the Sustainability Appraisal are presented
for consultation as alternative RWP Waste Technology Strategies:
• Sub-Option 2a –
High source segregated recycling and composting levels followed by high
levels of Pyrolysis • Sub-Option 3d – High source segregated
recycling and composting levels with all remaining waste being treated
using MBT followed by fuel to off-site energy use |
All seven sub-Options presented for consultation as alternative RWP Waste Technology Strategies:
• have a ‘front end’ recycling and composting rate for Municipal waste set at 50% in 2013 – this exceeds the current maximum National Waste Strategy for Wales target of achieving at least 40% recycling and composting of municipal waste by 2009/10; • are designed to achieve the 2020 EU Landfill Directive target for the diversion of Biodegradable Municipal Waste from landfill by 2013; and • ensure that targets for the management of the other principal controlled waste streams are also met – i.e. recycling targets for Construction and Demolition waste and landfill diversion for Industrial and Commercial waste. |
The plan apportions the total capacity
required at various types of waste management / resource recovery facilities
in 2013 to each Unitary Authority.
On the basis of forecasts of remaining landfill void in 2013 in South East
Wales, the plan indicates that the region:
• will not need any new
non-hazardous waste landfill capacity by 2013; |
The RWP Spatial Strategy
The RWP Spatial Strategy:
| • demonstrates an adequate
supply of existing sites for new in-building facilities on existing B2
or major industry sites and B2 sites that have already been allocated
in development plans to meet the demand for sites for new in-building
waste management facilities; and • identifies Areas of Search for use in identifying new sites for both in-building and open-air facilities waste management facilities, based on precise mapped criteria relating to strategic level spatial issues. |
Next Steps
The ‘Next Steps’ section outlines actions required by
Local Planning Authorities, Economic Development Bodies, Waste Disposal Authorities
and the Waste Management Industry. Appendix I sets out guidelines that individual
Unitary Authorities may wish to follow in bringing together the RWP Technology
Strategy and the RWP Spatial Strategy through the Local Development Plan preparation
process in their individual areas in order to identify appropriate sites for
waste management / resource recovery facilities.