Replacement Calderdale UDP : Adopted 25 August 2006 (as amended August 2009)

Replacement Calderdale UDP : Adopted 25 August 2006

• Foreword
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Calderdale in Context
• Strategic and Core Part One Policies
• 3 Guiding Principles and Key Themes
• 4 Employment, The Economy, Tourism and Regeneration
• 5 Housing
• 6 Retailing and Town Centres
• 7 Open Space, Sport and Recreation Facilities
• 8 The Built and Historic Environment
• 9 Transport
• 10 Infrastructure, Education and Community Facilities
• 11 Natural Environment and the Countryside
• 12 Environmental Protection
• 13 Minerals
• 14 Waste Management
  • Introduction
  • European Strategy
  • National Waste Strategy
  • Waste Management Strategy for Calderdale
  • Additional Information Required in Support of a Proposal
  • Landfilling of Waste
  • Recycling
  • Waste Management Facilities
  • Anaerobic Digestion and Composting
  • Green Waste Composting
  • Incineration
  • Re-Working of Former Landfill Sites
• 15 Monitoring and Review of the Plan
• Annex A Privacy, Daylighting and Amenity Space
• Annex B Trees On or Adjacent to Development Sites
• Appendix 1 National Planning Policy
• Appendix 2 National Minerals Policy
• Appendix 3 Supporting Published Documents
• Appendix 4 Glossary of Terms
• Appendix 5 Acronyms and Abbreviations
• Appendix 6 Policy Topic Index
• Appendix 7 Policy Number Comparison
• Appendix 8 Supplementary Maps

European Strategy

14.2 United Kingdom waste policy has been increasingly influenced by European Union (EU) legislation since the publication of the Directive on Waste 75/442/EEC, as amended by 91/156/EEC and 91/692/EEC. When drawing up plans, local planning authorities must have regard to the objectives of Article 3 (the need to minimise waste and to encourage recycling and energy recovery), Article 4 (the need to protect the environment and humans from potentially polluting development) and Article 5 (the need to set up an integrated network of disposal installations to facilitate self-sufficiency in accordance with the Proximity Principle) of the Directive. The Landfill Directive 1999/31/EEC is another significant element of EU legislation. It came into force in July 1999 and is now incorporated into UK legislation. The Directive seeks to impose stringent operational and technical requirements on the landfilling of waste and will have far reaching implications for waste management planning. These implications include:-

1. the banning of co-disposal and requirements for sites to elect to operate as hazardous, non-hazardous or inert waste from July 2004 which will have the effect of reducing the number of sites licensed to take hazardous waste;
2. there will be the requirement for waste to be pre-treated prior to landfill from 2004 which will mean a need for more pre-treatment facilities; and
3. the banning of liquids and tyres from landfill is likely to result in a need for new facilities.

14.3 A key element of EU policy that has become central to the UK's national waste strategy is the development of a waste management hierarchy. This prioritises waste management options with the overall aim of achieving a move up the hierarchy. The hierarchy is split into four categories in the following order:-

1. Reduction – by using technology that requires less material in products and less waste in manufacturing and produces longer-lasting products with lower pollution potential;
2. Re-use – e.g. returnable bottles;
3. Recovery – e.g. re-cycling, composting;
4. Disposal – by incineration without energy recovery or by landfill.

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