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

6 - Open Waste Facilities on unallocated sites or outside Areas of Search

Proposals for new open 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:

  • redundant farm land (in the case of green waste and/or biological waste); or
  • demolition and construction sites, where the inert waste materials are to be used on the construction project on that site; or
  • existing permitted waste management sites or co-located with other waste management development; or
  • the curtilages of Waste Recycling Centres (in the case of biological waste); or
  • mineral and landfill sites where waste material is used in conjunction with restoration, or proposed waste operations are temporary and linked to the completion of the mineral/landfill operation; or
  • areas of Previously Developed Land; or
  • employment areas that are existing or allocated in a Local Plan for general industry (B2) and storage and distribution (B8).

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