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

Incineration

14.30 At the present time within the UK as a whole, only 8% of waste is incinerated and only 2% is incinerated with energy recovery. The Government  recognises that incineration with energy recovery can, on appropriate sites, make an important contribution to the use of waste and the production of renewable energy. Incineration with energy recovery has the potential to reduce pollution from waste during final disposal by reducing its volume and organic content and thus its potential for the generation of landfill gas and leachate. In addition, if it is combined with energy recovery it helps to conserve finite resources such as coal and natural gas.

14.31 The Government's 'Waste Strategy 2000' indicates that incineration with energy recovery will have a role to play in the management of household waste and PPS10 also recognises that value can be recovered by generating energy from waste. However, energy from waste should not be selected until other options higher up the waste hierarchy (reduction, re-use, recycling/composting have been assessed).

14.32 Strict environmental controls need to be applied to the development and operation of incineration. The proposals must comply with the policies of the UDP in respect of environmental impact and transport, together with the requirements of the waste regulation and pollution prevention regimes. Incineration plants normally comprise of substantial industrial type buildings with tall chimneys. They can generate significant volumes of heavy goods vehicles and display many characteristics shared with large scale heavy industrial developments. They should, therefore, be located within industrial areas. Clinical and similar wastes will be consigned for disposal by incineration either at the hospital's own facility or at alternative appropriate sites. All incinerators should be located away from major concentrations of population because of the impact of ground and airborne emissions, have easy access to the primary road network or a rail or canal link, minimise the impact on the natural environment, and be located so as to ensure a balance between the need to minimise transport distances and the proximity to residential areas. The following Policy will therefore apply:-

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