HILLINGDON UNITARY DEVELOPMENT PLAN - London Borough ...

(iii)
(iv)
(v)
AT RAIL DEPOTS WHERE THE COARSE AGGREGATES ARE
TRANSPORTED BY RAIL;
ON SITES WITHIN INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS AREAS ON THE PROPOSALS MAP
WHICH HAVE GOOD ACCESS TO THE PRIMARY ROAD NETWORK;
AT WASTE TRANSFER/CIVIC AMENITY SITES WHERE THERE IS GOOD ACCESS
TO THE PRIMARY ROAD NETWORK.
13.37 The Borough already possesses three civic amenity/waste recycling centres and a major road/rail
waste transfer station catering for domestic refuse and trade wastes, and a number of smaller scale private
sector waste transfer stations. These facilities provide a basis for development of recycling or other
processes as changes develop in the waste stream and contribute to the minimising of HGV movements
associated with the disposal of the Borough's waste through 'bulking up'. The loss of any of these sites to
other development could be severely damaging and, especially in the case of the civic amenity sites, could
easily result in a return to the flytipping so prevalent before they were established. The Local Planning
Authority will seek to ensure that the sites are not put at risk by allowing development nearby which is
likely to generate objections to those activities or to unduly inhibit the potential of the sites to adapt to
changes in waste disposal techniques. Further details of the Council's policies regarding the recycling of
the domestic waste stream, including civic amenity wastes, are included in the Council's Recycling Plan
prepared during 1991 by the Council's Environmental Protection Service under Section 49 of the
Environmental Protection Act 1990, and are considered to be material.
MIN18 THE LOCAL PLANNING AUTHORITY WILL NORMALLY OPPOSE THE USE OF
EXISTING CIVIC AMENITY AND WASTE TRANSFER SITES FOR PURPOSES
UNCONNECTED WITH WASTE HANDLING, TREATMENT, RECYCLING, ENERGY
RECOVERY OR ALLIED ACTIVITIES, UNLESS:-
(i)
(ii)
THE LOCAL PLANNING AUTHORITY IS SATISFIED THAT AN
ALTERNATIVE FACILITY IS AVAILABLE OFFERING THE SAME OR
ENHANCED BENEFITS AND HAS A SECURE LONG-TERM FUTURE; OR
IT CAN BE DEMONSTRATED CONCLUSIVELY THAT THE LONG TERM
CHANGES IN THE NATURE AND PATTERN OF WASTE DISPOSAL HAVE
REMOVED THE LONG TERM NEED FOR THE CIVIC AMENITY AND/OR
WASTE TRANSFER FACILITY.
13.38 Not all wastes will be recyclable or suitable for energy recovery. Disposal by landfill is in some
cases the only practicable option. The primary objective of landfill in Hillingdon is to secure beneficial
restoration of mineral workings or improvement of damaged or derelict land. (See Paragraphs 3.34 - 3.40,
Policies OL21-OL24 and the Council's 'Derelict and Damaged Land Survey' September 1993). The use of
waste material specifically for reclamation of mineral workings is covered by Policy MIN7. However
policies are also necessary to deal with wastes not considered integrally with extraction proposals or where
outlets are sought specifically to meet waste disposal requirements or as a result of reworking of old waste
disposal sites. Such policies are also necessary to establish priorities, although the Minerals Planning
Authority has no powers to direct waste to specific sites. The primary consideration will be the suitability
of the waste material for achievement of prompt restoration to a beneficial use conforming with planning
policies and with minimal risk of subsequent deterioration or pollution risk. The Environment Agency
advises that where disposal of waste is accepted within the flood plain it should be restricted to inert waste
only; elsewhere disposal of putrescible wastes will not be acceptable where it is likely to lead to pollution
of ground water or surface water. Full regard will be had to the Environment Agency's 1992 Policy and
Practice for the Protection of Groundwater prepared by the then National Rivers Authority. Any waste
disposal requiring doming of sites within flood plains can reduce its capacity to store water and may
impede the flow of flood water and is consequently unlikely to be acceptable. Use of other land for waste
disposal will not normally be acceptable.
London Borough of Hillingdon Unitary Development Plan