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12.14 With regard to waste management data in Runnymede, the 2011/12 National Indicator (NI)
returns for NI 192 shows that 6479 tonnes of recycling was collected from household
kerbsides, and a total of 47% of all waste was recycled, including kerbside recycling, green
garden waste and food waste.
12.15 Regionally inter regional movement of waste can also be looked at to provide a baseline. In
the South East in 2007 2,173,311 tonnes were land filled from London to the South East. 68
12.16 Table 77 provides a summary of the key environmental issues and challenges that have been
identified as having particular relevance to the Council’s emerging Local Plan on this receptor.
Those issues and challenges have been identified from the baseline environmental
information as well as through discussion with various officers within the Council and
external statutory and non‐statutory consultees.
Table 77 – ER07 Summary Key Environmental Issues and Challenges
Receptor
[ER07] Materials Efficiency
and Waste
Key Issues, challenges and potential responses for the Local
Plan
Summary: A considerable amount of materials used in the construction and
maintenance of the built environment are non-renewable. Equally, a
considerable proportion of the waste sinks into which current waste is stored
are finite. These two problems will become more acute as time progresses
through the plan period.
Evolution of Baseline Condition
Issues and Challenges: Runnymede generates significant volumes of waste. The
majority of waste is dealt with in-county, along with waste imported to the
county from London and other parts of the South East.
Possible LP Response: The LP could bring forward policies to reduce further the
amount of waste that is generated and to increase the use of recycled or
recovered materials in the maintenance or construction of urban developments
and supporting infrastructure.
How LP Responded: The LP does not have a policy for materials efficiency and
waste.
12.17 Domestic and commercial waste is generated in Runnymede. A reduction in the amount of
waste that is generated from processes within the borough and the steps used to process this
waste could, depending upon how this is implemented, result in adverse or positive effects.
Potential Impact Pathways
MEW1: Use of Resources
12.18 Depending upon how material resources are used within the borough will indicate adverse or
beneficial effects in relation to materials efficiency.
MEW2: Generation of wastes
12.19 The generation of waste within Runnymede have the potential to cause adverse or positive
effects depending upon how they are managed.
Consideration of Policy and its Alternatives on ER07
Policy LP01: Strategy for the Location of Development
12.20 With regard to the SEA (Appendix 4) the policy options will all have an adverse impact.
When consideration is given to the impact on the pathways the adverse effect is clear. It is an
inevitable consequence of new development that the use of materials and the generation of
waste will be negative. It is difficult to avoid this conclusion, but the Plan needs to ensure that
future development is accommodated. Without the Plan development will take place so
there will be no known acceptable alternatives.
68 South East Partnership AMR 2007
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