Replacement Calderdale UDP : Adopted 25 August 2006

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 Strategy 2000
    • Landfill Tax
    • PPS10
    • Regional Spatial 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

National Waste Strategy

14.4 The Government being a signatory to the EU Landfill Directive transposed the Directive into UK Legislation by adopting a variety of measures. In 1996 Landfill Tax was introduced as an escalating tax. The Government published a document entitled 'Waste Strategy 2000' which sets out a strategy for UK authorities in relation to waste management practices. This document sets targets for local authorities in respect of recycling, composting and recovery of value from waste. This change in direction will reduce but not eliminate the need for landfill as the ultimate means of disposal.

14.5 The perceived slow response to 'Waste Strategy 2000' resulted in a further Government report being published in 2002 entitled 'Waste Not Want Not' which made recommendations for a more sustainable management of waste.This report resulted in the Department of Farming and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) preparing an Action Plan including 34 recommendations that included such measures as funding being made available under the Waste Implementation Programme (WIP), a rise in landfill tax, developing proposals for alternative indicators that incorporate waste reduction and a Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme (LATS). The introduction in 2005 of the LATS has significantly increased the pressure on local authorities to divert waste away from landfill to other mass reduction processes.

Waste Strategy 2000

14.6  ‘Waste Strategy 2000' sets out the Government's policy framework for sustainable waste management and provides principles that should be used when formulating policy and taking waste management decisions. The Strategy deals with only about a quarter of the waste produced. Agricultural waste is subject to separate regulation, whilst construction wastes are addressed through the ‘Sustainable Construction Strategy’ and MPG6 ‘Guidelines for Aggregates Provision in England’ (1994). Sewage sludge is subject to specific controls. 'Waste Strategy 2000' also introduces a number of recycling targets that will be statutory by incorporating them as performance standards in Best Value initiatives. These targets are:-

• by 2005, to reduce the amount of industrial and commercial waste sent to landfill by 85% of that landfilled in 1998;
• to recover value from 40% of municipal waste by 2005;
• to recover value from 45% of municipal waste by 2010;
• to recover value from 67% of municipal waste by 2015;
• to recycle or compost at least 25% of household waste by 2005;
• to recycle or compost at least 30% of household waste by 2010; and
• to recycle or compost at least 33% of household waste by 2015.

NOTE: In the context of these targets “recover” means recycling, composting some forms of material and energy recovery.

14.7 In addition to the 'Waste Strategy 2000' targets aimed at the recovery of waste, there are the Landfill Directive targets aimed at reducing the amount of biodegradable municipal waste being landfilled, and these targets are legally binding to comply with EU law. To implement these targets the Government has introduced permits for local authorities to restrict the amount of biodegradable waste sent to landfill (LATS). These permits allow set tonnages of biodegradable municipal waste to be landfilled and these will be progressively reduced over time. Local authorities that meet the targets and have spare capacity are able to trade the spare capacity with other authorities that have exceeded their targets. These performance standards are:-

• by 2010, biodegradable municipal waste going to landfills must be reduced to 75% of the total amount (by weight) of biodegradable municipal waste produced in 1995;
• by 2013, biodegradable municipal waste going to landfills must be reduced to 50% of the total amount (by weight) of biodegradable municipal waste produced in 1995; and
• by 2020, biodegradable municipal waste going to landfills must be reduced to 35% of the total amount (by weight) of biodegradable municipal waste produced in 1995.

Landfill Tax

14.8 In October 1996 a Landfill Tax was introduced to encourage a reduction in the amount of waste being sent to landfill. The aim of the tax is to ensure that the use of landfill reflects its environmental impact, thereby encouraging people to produce less waste, recover value from the waste produced and to dispose less waste to landfill.This is an escalating tax which began in 1996 at a rate of £7 per tonne for biologically active waste. By 2006, the rate has reached £21 for every tonne of waste disposed to landfill. This tax will rise by £3 per tonne in annual increments until the tax reaches £35 per tonne in 2013 assuming that a review of the tax in 2007 will not increase the yearly escalation rate of £3 per tonne per year.

PPS10

14.9 In July 2005 PPS10 ‘Planning for Waste and Sustainable Development’ was published. PPS10 sets out the strategy for a more sustainable approach to waste management that will protect human health and the environment by producing less waste and by using it as a resource wherever possible, by moving waste up the 'waste hierarchy' of reduction, reuse, recycling, using waste as a source of energy and disposing of waste as a last option. All of this means a significant change in the way waste is handled and investment in waste management facilities. The planning system has an important role to play in delivering sustainable waste management through the development of strategies for growth and regeneration and use of resources by the provision of new waste management facilities through up-to-date development plan documents.

Regional Spatial Strategy

14.10 Regional Planning Guidance (RPG12) for Yorkshire and the Humber has been replaced by Regional Spatial Strategy for Yorkshire and the Humber (RSS). The RSS (published in December 2004) is based on a selective review of RPG12 and includes waste management . The Sustainable Waste Management section in the RSS provides an interim framework for waste based on the Regional Waste Management Strategy (2003). The Regional Technical Advisory Body (RTAB) will advise the region on waste planning issues and it will offer technical advice on the implementation and review of the RSS policies.

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