Policy information sourced from the South London Waste Plan

WP3 The Safeguarding of Existing Waste Sites

Safeguarding

  • The sites set out on Pages 53-98 of this South London Waste Plan will be safeguarded for waste uses or waste/mineral uses.

Intensification

  • The intensification of use of a safeguarded waste site, measured by the increase of tonnes of waste managed per annum, will be supported, subject to the other policies in this South London Waste Plan and the relevant borough’s Development Plan.

Safeguarding Compensatory Provision

  • Compensatory provision for the loss of an existing safeguarded waste site will be required with the level of compensatory provision at least meeting the equivalent of maximum achievable throughput of the site being lost. The list of safeguarded sites will be updated with any compensatory sites in the Waste Authority Monitoring Report and the compensatory sites will be safeguarded for waste uses only.
  • Compensatory provision for the loss of a waste site from outside the South London Waste Plan area will not normally be permitted, unless there is robust evidence that:
    1. the compensatory provision is required for London to manage its waste sustainably and achieve net self-sufficiency; and
    2. there are no available or suitable sites within the borough or waste planning area where the waste site will be lost; and
    3. existing safeguarded sites within the South London Waste Plan area are not available or suitable or that needs cannot be met through the adaption or intensification of existing facilities; and
    4. it would manage waste as high up the waste hierarchy as practicable; and
    5. it would accord with all relevant aims and policies of the South London Waste Plan (particularly the locational criteria set out in Policy WP4 (b) to (e)) and the applicable borough’s Development Plan.
  • Applications for non-waste uses on safeguarded waste sites that accord with all relevant aims and policies of the South London Waste Plan and the applicable borough’s Development Plan, would be supported subject to appropriate conditions or legal agreements that ensure continued operational capacity.

Safeguarding Waste Hierarchy

  • Any development on an existing safeguarded waste site, including for compensatory provision, will be required to result in waste being managed at least to the same level in the waste hierarchy as prior to the development.

For more information please see the South London Waste Plan