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62 Mayor of London Making waste work in London The Mayor’s Draft Business Waste Management Strategy 3.113 In response to the review of the Mayor’s powers and the Mayor’s proposal for a London single waste disposal authority, additional powers for the Mayor of London were announced by the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) in 2006. One element of the new powers was for the establishment of a London Waste and Recycling Board, managing a new London waste and recycling fund. 3.114 The government has identified £60 million over three years, from the Comprehensive Spending Review, for the fund to spend to develop London’s municipal waste management services and infrastructure. The Mayor, through the LDA, has committed to provide £18 million worth of funding over three years to support the development of new waste infrastructure in London. 3.115 The Mayor is proposing to work with the commercial sector to deliver the vital waste infrastructure London needs and is looking to the London Development Agency to investigate establishing a fund to achieve his objectives for business waste. Proposal 8 To contribute to the development of business waste infrastructure in London, with sufficient capacity to achieve the London Plan selfsufficiency targets, the London Development Agency will investigate: ■ establishing a fund for business waste infrastructure ■ attracting partners and leverage additional investment to the fund ■ supporting the development of businesses and social enterprises that prevent waste, collect and manage resources in London or develop products made from recycled materials ■ delivering programmes that support innovation in the green industries sector. 3.116 The government's Enhanced Capital Allowances offer tax benefits for businesses, including the waste industry, for: ■ energy-saving plant and machinery ■ low carbon dioxide emission cars and natural gas and hydrogen refuelling infrastructure ■ water conservation plant and machinery. 3.117 In Waste Strategy 2007, the government announced it is introducing enhanced capital allowances for investment involving the use of secondary recovered fuel for combined heat and power facilities 142 . The Mayor believes this should be extended to include equipment used in advanced waste technologies. These present a substantial opportunity to
Making waste work in London The Mayor’s Draft Business Waste Management Strategy Mayor of London 63 divert waste from landfill and conventional incineration and produce renewable energy from residual waste. 3.118 The government’s Energy White Paper 143 , through its Renewables Obligation includes greater support for anaerobic digestion, gasification and pyrolysis. These changes will encourage greater recovery of renewable energy from waste through anaerobic digestion and other advanced waste technologies. It is disappointing this strong support of advanced waste technologies is not continued through into the government’s waste strategy. Proposal 9 The Mayor will promote and encourage the use of advanced waste technologies to manage London’s business waste and calls on the government to make advanced waste technologies eligible for Enhanced Capital Allowances. Planning for infrastructure development 3.119 During the London Assembly consultation, representatives from the waste industry argued that addressing the waste management capacity gap relies more on releasing land on which facilities can be developed, than finding finance. 3.120 Planning for the management of London’s wastes falls within the remit of the London boroughs as planning authorities. Strategic planning for London’s waste at a regional level has been strengthened through the London Plan and its Alterations and at a national level through recent changes including Planning Policy Statement 10 (PPS10) Planning for Sustainable Waste Management 144 . This planning framework intends to create an integrated, plan-led system for managing London’s wastes. This strategy supports the existing planning framework and defers to the London Plan for planning policy. 3.121 In 2006, Government Office for London, the GLA, London Councils and the Association of London Borough Planning Officers commissioned an exercise to apportion tonnages of municipal, commercial and industrial waste at London borough level, as required by PPS10. The apportionment was considered by the Examination in Public in July 2007, as part of the draft Further Alterations to the London Plan 145 . The panel supported the apportionment, identifying that delivering the borough apportionment will create real local opportunities and will lead to ’the introduction of newer technologies that should be seen as an employment opportunity… in a cleaner and much more attractive built and environmental context’ 146 .
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