The plan was completed by Chris Ballam of the Land and Development Practice in Wetherby on behalf of a landfill site operated by Messrs S and R Peel at Windy Ridge Stone Quarry near Holmfirth. The site is the first to fulfil the Landfill Directive’s requirement that site operators who intend to continue receiving waste submit a Conditioning Plan.
Conditioning Plans must include details of a site’s geographical and environmental features, the surrounding area and any corrective measures that the operator is intending to provide in order to meet the directive. Operators must also decide which category of landfill their site falls into – inert, hazardous or general municipal waste.
The Windy Ridge Stone Quarry, West, has only ever handled inert waste and plans to carry on doing so. The site plan shows neighbouring properties and environmental features. As the site is within 5km of the South Pennine Moors, a Special Protection Area for birds, it is a candidate Special Area for Conservation under the Habitats Directive.
The Government has yet to complete the Landfill Regulations specifying all the requirements of the Landfill Directive, published in July 1999, but the Environment Agency yesterday warned that failure to submit a Conditioning Plan by the deadline of July 16 2002 is an offence which may lead to a site’s closure.
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