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Adopted WLP - Background
The Adopted Waste Local Plan
The Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended by the Planning and Compensation Act 1991) required all Waste Planning Authorities (WPA's) to prepare a Waste Local Plan. Wiltshire County Council and Swindon Borough Council (as WPA's) have jointly preparing their Adopted Waste Local Plan.
The WLP was formally adopted by both authorities in March 2005 and is now available in both printed and CD Rom formats, as well as on this website. For details of how to order a copy of the WLP please contact customercare@wiltshire.gov.uk
Following an initial brief published in 1994, work on Wiltshire and Swindon’s first waste local plan began in 1999, marking the beginning of a 5 year preparation process, including:
- An extensive Issues and options consultation period in late 1999/ early 2000:
- A number of meetings of the WLP stakeholder Forum between 2000 and 2001 to inform the preparation of the draft WLP policies and proposals;
- Publication and public consultation on the First Deposit Draft WLP in Autumn/ Winter 2001;
- Publication and public consultation on a Revised Deposit Draft WLP in Autumn 2002 and the submission of the WLP to the Secretary of State;
- A Public Local Inquiry into approximately 2000 outstanding objections to the WLP held in spring/ summer 2003;
- An assessment of the Inquiry Inspectors report to the WPAs outlining those areas of the WLP that should be modified to take account of all relevant aspects of planning policy, waste legislation and public comment;
- A detailed modifications process in which approximately 150 modifications and corrections were made as part of the preparation of the Adopted WLP; and
- The formal adoption of the WLP by Wiltshire County Council and Swindon Borough Council in March 2005.
In completing this process the following documents were produced (those in bold are available on this website; all documents are available from customercare@wiltshire.gov.uk:
- Adopted Wiltshire and Swindon Waste Local Plan (March 2005);
- Adopted Supplementary Planning Guidance for Policies 10 and 14 of the Waste Local Plan (March 2005)
- Inspectors Report into the Inquiry on Objections to the Wiltshire and Swindon Waste Local Plan (May 2004);
- Revised Deposit Draft Wiltshire and Swindon Waste Local Plan (September 2002);
- Revised Deposit Draft Wiltshire and Swindon Waste Local Plan - Statement of Publicity and Participation/ Consultation (September 2002);
- Revised Deposit Draft Wiltshire and Swindon Waste Local Plan - revised Comparative Appraisal of Sites (July 2002);
- Revised Deposit Draft Wiltshire and Swindon Waste Local Plan - Sustainability Appraisal (June 2002);
- First Deposit Draft Wiltshire and Swindon Waste Local Plan (November 2001);
- First Deposit Draft Wiltshire and Swindon Waste Local Plan - Statement of Publicity and Participation/ Consultation (November 2001);
- First Deposit Draft Wiltshire and Swindon Waste Local Plan - Sustainability Appraisal (August 2001);
- First Deposit Draft Wiltshire and Swindon Waste Local Plan - Comparative Appraisal of Sites (August 2001);
- First Deposit Draft Wiltshire and Swindon Waste Local Plan - Review of Waste Management Requirements (August 2001);
- First Deposit Draft Wiltshire and Swindon Waste Local Plan - Assessment of Salisbury Area of Search (June 2000);
- First Deposit Draft Wiltshire and Swindon Waste Local Plan - Waste to Energy Study (June 2000);
- Wiltshire and Swindon Waste Local Plan - Consultation on Issues and Options (November 1999).
What does the Adopted WLP do?
The WLP is now a statutory element of the development Plan for Wiltshire and Swindon (also made up of the Wiltshire Structure Plan; the Wiltshire and Swindon Minerals Local Plan; and the Borough and District Local Plans) and will be relevant to all waste related development proposals. The WLP sets out the waste planning framework for Wiltshire and Swindon for the period to 2011 and contains 24 policies covering:
- The provision of sustainable, necessary waste development (Policies 1 & 2);
- The provision of Preferred Areas for waste management development (Policies 3 & 4);
- The safeguarding of waste management sites (Policy 5);
- Controlling the impacts of waste management development (Policies 6, 7 & 8);
- Waste minimisation and waste audits (Policies 9 & 10);
- Recovery of waste (including recycling, composting & energy from waste)(Policies 11–18);
- The disposal of waste (Policies 19 - 22);
- Provisions for the management of hazardous and clinical wastes (Policy 23); and
- The development of waste water treatment facilities (Policy 24).
The WLP also includes 27 Preferred Area allocations to encourage appropriate future planning applications for waste management development to be made for a range of strategic and local scale waste management facilities. Of these allocations 9 are for strategic waste development, including 2 locations that have the potential to accommodate energy from waste development, and 18 have the potential to accommodate local scale waste recycling, composting and transfer uses. There are no Preferred areas identified for additional landfill or landraise.
These allocations are dispersed across the County and the Borough as follows:
- Kennet District - 4 local preferred area allocations;
- North Wiltshire District - 4 strategic and 2 local preferred area allocations;
- Salisbury District - 1 strategic and 4 local preferred area allocations;
- Swindon Borough - 1 strategic and 1 local preferred area allocation; and
- West Wiltshire District - 2 strategic and 5 local preferred area allocations.
The WLP is also applicable to a range of other development determined by the Wiltshire and Swindon Local Planning Authorities, such as housing, retail, schools, roads and business, by virtue of WLP Policies 10 and 14 requiring the auditing of waste arising through demolition and construction and the provision of recycling and composting facilities for occupiers of new developments.
All Change for Waste Planning Policy
In 2004 the Government gave royal assent to the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, which significantly alters the process of preparing planning policy, including waste planning policy. The system of WLP preparation previously undertaken has been superseded by a new process of creating a Minerals and Waste Development Framework, which will include waste planning policy as Waste Development Documents, that is intended to be more efficient, inclusive and accessible and that is subject to more rigorous testing. Further details of the Act and the new planning system can be found at The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. For details of the new Waste Development Documents and the Minerals and Waste Development Framework, see the Planning home page
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