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Making waste work in London The Mayor’s Draft Business Waste Management Strategy
Proposal 10 The Mayor expects London boroughs to develop Core Strategies, which
commit the authority in their Local Development Framework to:
■ achieve the London Plan and Municipal Waste Management Strategy
recycling targets
■ specify in which Local Development Scheme documents they will
allocate sites to achieve their apportionment, set through the
London Plan
■ establish criteria to determine waste planning applications while
preparing more detailed proposals.
3.122 The Mayor expects that waste and reprocessing facilities will not be
limited to materials and wastes from specific sources, for example, only
accepting municipal waste, but will have contracts across the public and
private sector. This will ensure that facilities operate at capacity, reduce
the duplication of facilities and may assist the development of local
facilities, which reduces transport requirements.
3.123 This approach is supported by the government. In Waste Strategy 2007 147
the government has stated that funding mechanisms, such as Private
Finance Initiatives, will not prevent local authorities and their contractors
from developing facilities to cater for both municipal and business waste.
Defra’s Waste Infrastructure Delivery Programme (WIDP) will ensure that
the diversion of municipal waste from landfill is achieved, but it will seek
to do so through joint merchant/municipal facilities where appropriate.
3.124 As an example, the East London Waste Authority’s contract with Shanks
allows them to sell any short-term surplus capacity to third parties.
Therefore, excess capacity created through waste prevention and recycling
of municipal waste has a commercial value.
3.125 Defra’s Planning Systems Guidance 148 and a Planning Health Framework 149
encourage a constructive approach to waste planning, identifying actions
that will facilitate favourable determinations of planning applications and
speed the delivery of waste infrastructure.
Proposal 11The Mayor expects London boroughs to:
■ provide capacity, where appropriate, for non-municipal waste when
developing waste facilities
■ explore opportunities to develop waste management infrastructure
that maximises the potential use of water and rail transport
■ explore opportunities to develop waste management infrastructure
on-site as part of any site development or redevelopment.