Policy information sourced from the Essex and Southend-on-Sea Waste Local Plan
2 - Safeguarding Waste Management Sites and Infrastructure
Where non-waste development is proposed within 250m of safeguarded sites, or within 400m of a Water Recycling Centre, the relevant Local Planning Authority is required to consult the Waste Planning Authority on the proposed non-waste development (except for those developments defined as ‘Excluded’ in ‘Appendix C - Development Excluded from Safeguarding Provisions’).
Proposals which are considered to have the potential to adversely impact on the operation of a safeguarded waste site or infrastructure, including the site allocations within this Plan, are unlikely to be opposed where:
- a temporary permission for a waste use has expired, or the waste management use has otherwise ceased and the site or infrastructure is considered unsuitable for a subsequent waste use; or
- redevelopment of the waste site or loss of the waste infrastructure would form part of a strategy or scheme that has wider environmental, social and/or economic benefits that outweigh the retention of the site or the infrastructure for the waste use, and alternative provision is made for the displaced waste use; or
- a suitable replacement site or infrastructure has otherwise been identified and permitted.
For more information please see the Essex and Southend-on-Sea Waste Local Plan