Policy information sourced from the Essex and Southend-on-Sea Waste Local Plan

5 - Enclosed Waste Facilities on unallocated sites or outside Areas of Search

Proposals for new enclosed waste management facilities will be permitted where:

  • the waste site allocations and the Areas of Search in this Plan are shown to be unsuitable or unavailable for the proposed development;
  • although not exclusively, a need for the capacity of the proposed development has been demonstrated to manage waste arising from within the administrative areas of Essex and Southend-on-Sea; and
  • it is demonstrated that the site is at least as suitable for such development as Site Allocations or Areas of Search, with reference to the overall spatial strategy and site assessment methodology associated with this Plan.

In addition, proposals should be located at or in:

  • employment areas that are existing or allocated in a Local Plan for general industry (B2) and storage and distribution (B8);or
  • existing permitted waste management sites or co-located with other waste management development; or
  • the same site or co-located in close proximity to where the waste arises; or
  • the curtilages of Waste Recycling Centres (in the case of biological waste); or,
  • areas of Previously Developed Land; or
  • redundant agricultural or forestry buildings and their curtilages (in the case of green waste and/or biological waste).

Proposals for energy recovery facilities with combined heat and power are expected to demonstrate that the heat produced will be supplied to a district heat network or direct to commercial or industrial users.

Any proposals that come forward on land use types not identified above will be assessed on their merits, based on the policies in this Plan.

For more information please see the Essex and Southend-on-Sea Waste Local Plan