Policy information sourced from Barking and Dagenham Adopted Core Strategy

POLICY CR3: SUSTAINABLE WASTE MANAGEMENT

To protect human health and the environment the Borough will seek to manage waste in a sustainable way and to help achieve national recycling and composting targets.

This will be done by prioritising waste reduction, re-use, recycling and composting, new and emerging recovery technologies and conventional incineration over landfill, which will only be considered acceptable as a last resort.

To meet the needs of our growing population, and to meet the Waste Apportionment requirements set out in the London Plan (Consolidated with Alterations since 2004), appropriate existing waste management capacity will be safeguarded and preferred sites for new facilities identified. The specifics of what capacity will be safeguarded and what sites are preferred for new waste management facilities will be set out in the Joint Waste DPD which the Council is developing with the neighbouring boroughs of Havering, Newham and Redbridge. In the interim the favoured broad locations for new or expanded waste management facilities in Barking and Dagenham are the Strategic Industrial Locations and Locally Significant Industrial Sites (subject to environmental and amenity considerations).

Until the Joint Waste DPD has been adopted, applications for waste developments will be determined in accordance with PPS10 and the London Plan, and the capacity of existing waste management facilities will be safeguarded.