The consultations include a draft Planning Policy Statement (PPS) 10, which will replace the old planning policy guidance note 10 (PPG10), which covered new waste plant proposals.
” Everyone has a role to play: manufacturers, waste managers, local communities and the authorities which serve them.“
– Elliot Morley, Defra
Stakeholders are also being asked for their views on the preparation of municipal waste management strategies and possible changes to decision-making principles and procedures laid out in the government's Waste Strategy 2000.
The fourth consultation seeks views on the national provision of waste data and how regional planning bodies could forecast and monitor waste arisings.
Defra is working with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister on the consultations, which end in March 2005. The government said the consultations would provide the framework for a “long term vision for 15-20 years ahead” and “emphasise the need for early and continuous community engagement” in new waste projects.
Commenting on the consultations, environment minister Elliot Morley said: “Today's consultation aims to help all those involved take their share of responsibility for reducing and managing waste.
“Everyone has a role to play: manufacturers, waste managers, local communities and the authorities which serve them,” Mr Morley said.
” The planning system has a pivotal role to play in making sure we get the right facilities in place to deal with that waste. “
– Keith Hill, ODPM
PPS10
The consultation on the Planning Policy Statement 10 ends on March 11, 2005. The government said its aim was to provide a “better match between the waste communities generate, and the facilities needed to manage this waste”.
The waste hierarchy – in which waste minimisation, re-use and recycling is prioritised above incineration and landfill – would be placed at the heart of the new policy, the government said. Waste would be emphasised as a resource, it added, but PPS10 also underlined the need to cater for required disposal.
PPS10 “requires clear policies regionally, locally and sites to be identified in local plans so as to increase certainty for both local communities and industry”, the government said.
Keith Hill, minister for housing and planning, said: “The planning system has a pivotal role to play in making sure we get the right facilities in place to deal with that waste. The new PPS10 gives clarity on what is needed regionally and locally and will lead to greater certainty for local communities and industry.”
- The consultation on PPS10 ends March 11, 2005 and is available on the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister website.
The other three consultations – on guidance for municipal waste management strategies, changes to Waste Strategy 2000 and the provision of waste data – end on March 31, 2005.
- These consultation papers available on the Defra website.
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