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The revision should cover: 1. guidance to ensure that conditions to lessen any health impacts of a waste facility are dealt with in granting a pollution control permit rather than within the planning permission process (this happens, for example, for telephone masts). There should also be clarification of which other issues are for the pollution control permit rather than planning; 2. guidance on the requirement to keep development plans up to date; and 3. an expectation that local authorities should give reasons when they turn down a specific application which conforms with their plan. If their reasons are site or facility specific they should make these clear and retain them for any future application. 8.46 As part of this revision, consideration should be given to designating specific sites in the local plan for locating waste facilities in advance of individual planning applications. This would have the advantage of speeding up the planning process. On the other hand, it could delay the whole plan, and identification of sites in advance may blight land and prevent any development in the vicinity. Improved performance A Steering Group reporting to the Secretary of State 8.47 In the short to medium term, there needs to be a driving force for co-ordinating all the recommendations in this report. <strong>Waste</strong> Strategy 2000 was followed up by a monitoring and evaluation group that no longer exists. In order to make progress, a high-level and highpowered body to drive forward implementation of the strategy in this report is required. 141 DETR, Strong Local Leadership – Quality Public Services, (2001) 8.48 A high level steering group that reports to the Secretary of State and chaired by a senior external figure should be set up. It should comprise around 10 senior figures able to address delivery, strategy and performance issues from government, the EA, the waste industry, the community sector, local government, WRAP and academia. A core of the current SU <strong>Waste</strong> Advisory Group might provide some of the members for this group. Recommendation 33: A high-level steering group, chaired by a senior external figure and reporting to the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs should be set up to drive forward the recommendations in this report. Performance of local authorities 8.49 Over 100 local authorities say they will fail to meet their statutory waste targets. If additional resources are directed to waste management, then an appropriate performance framework must be in place to ensure that progress is made. 8.50 The Local Government White Paper 141 sets out an approach to address all aspects of service performance. Outcomes are assessed through the new Comprehensive Performance Assessment (CPA) that includes an analysis of Best Value Performance Indicators (including nine indicators for waste), inspections and corporate service planning systems. Improvements identified by the CPA are set out in its Best Value Performance Plan. Chapter 6 set out the reasons why the Best Value indicators for waste management provide conflicting signals for local authorities. Making the appropriate changes will therefore enhance the CPA process applied to waste. An additional consideration is whether this is enough or whether waste should be given a higher priority within this process, albeit for a limited period. FUNDING AND DELIVERY 111
Recommendation 34: ODPM and DEFRA should ensure that Best Value Indicators support waste reduction and recycling and that realistic penalties and incentives are available for LAs to meet waste targets. Options are: 1. enhancing the existing Comprehensive Performance Assessment by making the Best Value Performance Indicators for waste consistent and in line with a reduce-re-userecycling strategy and possibly placing more emphasis on waste aspects of performance, at least for a short period; 2. a performance reward grant that provides a positive incentive by linking funding in part with achievement of a certain target – for example on statutory performance standards for recycling – and in part through an advance allocation of resources to take account of the up-front costs and effort required to meet the target; 3. fines could be levied on poor performers. However, this could have an adverse impact if LAs subsequently reduced their waste spend; and/or 4. for high performing authorities or the waste industry to take over the management of the waste function in poor performing authorities. WASTE NOT, WANT NOT 112
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