Policy information sourced from the Buckinghamshire Minerals and Waste Local Plan

12: Disposal to Landfill

In line with achieving net self-sufficiency, driving waste up the hierarchy and the reduction in London’s waste exports, no additional capacity for disposal to non-hazardous landfill will be provided for during the plan period. The required non-hazardous disposal capacity is able to be delivered through existing commitments for non-hazardous landfill.

In order to address the need for additional capacity of more than local significance, the following quantities of London’s non-apportioned (household and C&I) waste for export received by Buckinghamshire for disposal to non-hazardous landfill will be provided for over the plan period: 0.18Mtpa 2016, 0.11Mtpa 2021 and zero by 2026.

No specific capacity will be provided for inert disposal (or recovery) during the plan period. Deposit of inert waste to land should be focused at mineral extraction sites with extant planning permission to facilitate restoration. Where the deposit of inert waste to land is proposed at sites not directly associated with the restoration of mineral extraction sites it must be demonstrated that there are no opportunities afforded by extraction.

Whilst it is recognised that the management of hazardous and radioactive wastes occurs on a wider than local scale, proposals for such development would need to demonstrate a particular imperative to locate within Buckinghamshire. In doing so proposals should take account of the wider network of waste management facilities and ensure that wastes are managed in line with the waste hierarchy and proximity principle, with waste being managed at the nearest appropriate installation. No specific capacity will be provided for hazardous and radioactive waste disposal during the plan period.

Disposal capacity requirements over the plan period are set out in the table below with London’s waste, taken to be in addition to Buckinghamshire’s disposal requirements, indicated in brackets.