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12.5.5 The Environment Agency has a statutory role in relation to the management and regulation
of waste and the collection of waste production and management data. The Agency also has a
statutory role in development planning for waste management through consultation on individual
plans and as a consultee on certain planning applications. The Environment Agency will contribute
to the development and implementation of the joint working arrangements.
12.6 Development plans and waste planning
12.6.1 Local planning authorities must have regard to the national waste strategy 11 in formulating
their development plans. They must ensure that policies in development plans facilitate the delivery
of the waste management objectives in the Waste Strategy for Wales and meet the obligations
required by European legislation 12 .
12.6.2 Development plan policies should demonstrate how the objectives in the national waste
strategy have been taken into account. Development plans should identify sites for waste facilities
or areas where such facilities may be suitable. Development plans should show the regard that the
authority has had to any regional waste plan 13 and any waste management and recycling plans
relevant to its area. Policies proposing any major new development should incorporate adequate
and effective waste management facilities.
12.7 Development Control and waste planning
12.7.1 Decisions on planning applications should have regard to the waste management objectives
in the national waste strategy. The environmental impact of proposals for waste management
facilities must be adequately assessed, supported by independent surveys where appropriate, to
determine whether a planning application is acceptable and, if the adverse impacts on amenity
cannot be mitigated, planning permission should be refused. Adequate facilities for the collection,
composting and recycling of waste materials should be incorporated into the design of any major
development. (Section 4.10)
12.7.2 Local planning authorities and the Environment Agency are expected to work closely
together to ensure that conditions attached to planning consents, those attached to waste
management licences and those attached to consents from other pollution control regimes are
complementary and do not duplicate one another.
12.8 Sustainable Energy
12.8.1 The UK Energy White Paper (2007) sets out the UK Government’s aim to tackle the two
long-term energy challenges of climate change and ensuring secure, clean and affordable energy 14 .
The UK has signed up to the EU Renewable Energy Directive which includes a UK target of 15% of
energy from renewables by 2020 15 . The UK Renewable Energy Strategy (2009) sets out the path
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