Policy information sourced from the Hertfordshire Waste Development Framework, Waste Core Strategy & Development Management Policies DPD

1: Strategy for the Provision for Waste Management Facilities

Provision will be made for a network of waste management facilities that drive waste management practices up the waste hierarchy and are sufficient to provide adequate capacity for existing and future waste arisings within the county and for any agreed apportionment for waste arisings from outside the county.

Provision for new appropriate and adequate Local Authority Collected waste management facilities will be provided within the broad areas A, B, C, D and E as shown in the Key Diagram.

Waste management facilities for waste that is not Local Authority Collected waste will be brought forward on existing strategic sites, Employment Land Areas of Search and Allocated Sites.

To ensure flexibility for the waste management industry and for use of newer technologies, there will be provision for a mixture of small, medium and large waste management sites as appropriate. New and emerging waste management and processing techniques will be encouraged.

Any proposed new development within the county will be required to make appropriate provision for managing the waste arising from that development.

Proposals for the treatment of waste arising outside of Hertfordshire will only be permitted where it can be demonstrated that compensatory provision of capacity for residual waste which cannot be managed in Hertfordshire is available and deliverable.

For more information please see Hertfordshire Waste Development Framework