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

6: Green Belt

Applications for new and/or expansion of existing waste management facilities within the Green Belt will be required to demonstrate very special circumstances sufficient to outweigh the harm to the Green Belt together with any other harm identified. In considering proposals within the Green Belt the following criteria will be taken into account as material considerations:

  1. The need for the development that cannot be met by alternative suitable non-Green Belt sites;
  2. The need to find locations as close as practicable to the source of waste;
  3. The availability of sustainable transport connections;
  4. The site characteristics;
  5. Any specific locational advantages of the proposed site; and
  6. The wider economic and environmental benefits of sustainable waste management, including the need for a range of sites.

For more information please see Hertfordshire Waste Development Framework