Comment
Nottinghamshire and Nottingham Draft Waste Local Plan January 2022
Representation ID: 658
Received: 04/04/2022
Respondent: Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
Paragraph 7.47.
This could include: • Enclosing waste facilities which would help to reduce noise, dust and
odour and would also act as a temperature control measure. • Minimise water consumption (e.g.
use of recycled water for waste management processes, harvesting of rainwater). • Designing
facilities to include measures to deliver landscape enhancement and biodiversity gain. Such
measures should contribute to the wider network of green infrastructure across the county (e.g.
green roofs) • Utilising associated lower-carbon energy generation such as heat recovery and
the recovery of energy from gas produced from the waste so activity is maximised. • Minimise
greenhouse gas emissions, including through energy efficiency, design and orientation of
buildings………….substantively reducing ALL waste management or processing that
results in the production of the most damaging GHG eg. CH4, and those which have other
serious detrimental effects on the environment, including adverse impacts on sensitive
and scarce habitats including NOx, NH4.
Thank you for consulting the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust (NWT) on the above. I apologise
for using this format of response, but the OPUS format is not straightforward to use for
responses to multiple sections and the insertion or highlighting of text. I have used bold italics
to suggest insertions of text and italics for your original text.
Overall NWT supports the principles of the Plan and we welcome the clear reiteration of the
need to move waste management urgently up the waste hierarchy. We would hope, however,
to see a stronger aim for further waste reduction and the obligation for each Local
Authority to secure ambitious waste reductions across all their work and areas of
influence.
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