Policy information sourced from the South London Waste Plan

WP4 Sites for Compensatory Provision

Proposals for new waste sites or development of existing safeguarded sites to provide compensatory provision should:

  • Demonstrate that the site is capable of providing at least the equivalent of maximum achievable throughput of the site being lost.
  • Be located on sites:
    1. Safeguarded for waste, including waste transfer stations, or within Strategic Industrial Locations or Locally Significant Industrial Locations;
    2. not having an adverse effect on nature conservation areas protected by international or national regulations;
    3. not containing features or have an adverse effect on features identified as being of international or national historic importance; and,
    4. not having an adverse effect on on-site or off-site flood risk. Proposals involving hazardous waste will not be permitted within Flood Zones 3a or 3b.
    5. not within the Green Belt or Metropolitan Open Land
  • Consider the advantages of the co-location of waste facilities with the negative cumulative effects of a concentration of waste uses in one area;
  • Have particular regard to sites which:
    1. do not result in visually detrimental development conspicuous from Green Belt or Metropolitan Open Land;
    2. are located more than 100 metres from open space;
    3. are located outside Groundwater Source Protection Zones (ie sites farthest from protected groundwater sources);
    4. have access to sustainable modes of transport for incoming and outgoing materials, particularly rail and water, and which provide easy access for staff to cycle or walk;
    5. have direct access to the strategic road network;
    6. have no Public Rights of Way crossing the site;
    7. do not adversely affect regional and local nature conservation areas, conservation areas and locally designated areas of special character, archaeological sites and strategic views;
    8. offer opportunities to accommodate various related facilities on a single site;
  • Include appropriate mitigation measures which will be considered in assessing site suitability;
  • result in waste being managed at least to the same level in the waste hierarchy as the site being lost; and
  • Meet the other policies of the relevant borough’s Development Plan.

For more information please see the South London Waste Plan