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Section 11 Waste
POLICY WM5: Planning for Waste Management
Local Development Documents should include policies which identify the additional capacity required to manage
their apportioned wastes. They should identify sites and areas suitable to accommodate the required facilities,
including for the collection, sorting and storage of waste, and its treatment, recycling and disposal and sufficient
landfill capacity to meet the anticipated need across the region.
To minimise impacts on growth area objectives for Bedfordshire, the use of potential landfill capacity in the Marston
Vale should reduce over time. New landfill development in the Marston Vale should not compromise proposals for
environmental regeneration and housing development, and should only be permitted where the waste to be
landfilled has been subjected to comprehensive pre-treatment, such that the maximum practicable value has been
recovered, and provision is consistent with Bedfordshire’s waste apportionment in Policies WM 3 and 4.
11.18 On the best available information, the East of England needs to provide up to 20 million tonnes of recovery capacity by
2021. The ERM study also identified a shortfall in landfill capacity for inert waste in most sub-regions, and an uneven
spread of landfill capacity for non hazardous waste with early shortfalls in Bedfordshire and Essex. Informed by the best
available data, Local Development Documents should allocate an appropriate number and range of sites for waste
facilities reflecting the waste hierarchy. Facilities for composting and waste minimisation processes, such as mechanicalbiological
treatment and thermal energy recovery, should be encouraged.
11.19 Current levels of landfill activity in Marston Vale do not sit comfortably with proposals for regeneration and environmental
improvement. Imported waste from London should reduce progressively from current levels to a substantially lower level
by 2015. New landfill development in the area should only accept residual wastes from comprehensive treatment
processes. The necessary waste treatment facilities should be in place before any new landfill sites become operational.
Any future review of imported waste apportionments should take account of the need to avoid conflict between waste
management and development in the Vale.
POLICY WM6: Waste Management in Development
Development should be designed and constructed to minimise the creation of waste, make maximum use of
recycled materials and facilitate the collection, separation, sorting, recycling and recovery of waste arising from the
development and surrounding areas, where appropriate. Within major developments provision should be made for
waste management facilities to enable the sustainable management of waste through innovative approaches to
local waste reduction, recycling and management.
11.20 New development, especially high density and mixed use, should provide for waste collection and management in its
design. This will mean, for example, ensuring new homes have sufficient space for the separation, storage and efficient
collection of a range of wastes for recycling or recovery. Larger developments should be designed to minimise waste
production and incorporate on site provision for waste minimisation and recovery. In the key centres for development and
change in particular, strategically significant development schemes should adopt innovative approaches to community
waste reduction, recycling and management, such as composting. Local Development Documents, frameworks, master
plans and design briefs should reflect these requirements.
11.21 Construction and demolition waste represents the largest waste stream and is forecast to grow from over 12.5 m tonnes
in 2002/3 to 17.5 m tonnes by 2021, ODPM survey 2003. Developers will need to account for the waste generated by
their activities in their site waste management plans (mandatory for most developments from October 2007) and the
majority of such waste managed on site.