Policy information sourced from the Buckinghamshire Minerals and Waste Local Plan
14: Development Principles for Waste Management Facilities
Proposals for waste management facilities must demonstrate that the development:
- Is in general compliance with the spatial strategy for waste development; and
- Facilitates the delivery of Buckinghamshire’s waste management capacity requirements; and
- Identifies the waste streams to be treated, catchment area for the waste to be received on-site and end fate of any outputs; and
- Is complementary to the current or planned economic role, status and uses of the employment area (where applicable); and
- Enables communities and businesses to take more responsibility for their own waste and supports the management of waste in line with the waste hierarchy and the proximity principle.
Proposals for the development of facilities for preparing for re-use, recycling, treatment and other forms of recovery must demonstrate that:
- Energy and heat generated is utilised and residues are re-used, where possible; and
- The proposed treatment process facilitates the efficient collection and recovery of waste materials further up the waste hierarchy; and
- Waste intended for recovery has undergone prior-treatment.
Where the proposal is not located within an area of focus for waste manage of focus for waste management preference will be for proposals that integrate and co-locate waste management facilities together and with complementary activities, or maximise the use of previously developed land or redundant agricultural and forestry buildings (and their curtilages).
Proposals for the development of facilities for the disposal of non-hazardous waste must demonstrate that:
- the development is required to meet disposal capacity needs within Buckinghamshire that cannot reasonably or would not otherwise be met from committed sites; and
- disposal forms the most appropriate management method; and
- only residual waste is disposed of, with waste having undergone prior-treatment.
Where it can be clearly demonstrated that additional landfill capacity for residual wastes should be provided, preference would be for an extension to an existing site, unless it can be shown that a standalone site would be more sustainable and better located to support the management of waste close to its source.
Deposit of inert waste to land should be should be focused at mineral extraction sites with extant planning permission requiring restoration, unless it can be clearly demonstrated that an alternative location would not prejudice the restoration of these sites.
Deposit of inert waste to land should be should be focused at mineral extraction sites with extant planning permission requiring restoration, unless it can be clearly demonstrated that an alternative location would not prejudice the restoration of these sites.
For more information please see the Buckinghamshire Minerals and Waste Local Plan