Comment

Representation ID: 692

Received: 04/04/2022

Respondent: Newark and Sherwood District Council

Policy SP8 Safeguarding Waste Management Sites and Paragraph 7.64
Comment:
Within the first paragraph of this policy, it is suggested that reference is not only made to long
term need and any wider regeneration benefits but that the sustainability of the existing waste
management facility ought to also be taken into consideration in determining whether the
loss of an existing facilities is acceptable.
Whilst the intention of this policy in relation to non-waste uses is welcomed, in order to ensure
that existing and permitted waste management sites are sufficiently protected from nonwaste
development, and non-waste developments are protected from existing and permitted
waste management sites, it is considered that the second paragraph of this policy needs to be
amended to be more robust. The supporting text to this policy sets out the difficulties which
can be faced by waste management facilities when new, sensitive types of development are
located nearby. The reasonableness of requiring a developer to fund the relocation of a
safeguarded waste management facility, as set out in paragraph 7.64, is questioned, and could
not be required through the policy as it is currently worded.
It is recommended that the second paragraph of this policy is amended to require that an
assessment of the potential for impacts between existing waste management facilities and
new, non-waste development will be required as part of the consideration of proposals for
new non-waste development, taking into account the type of waste management facility
which exists. If adverse impacts either on the new development, or on the existing waste
management facility are found to exist, these must be suitably addressed, mitigated against,
or compensated for, as part of the proposed new non-waste development proposal, and the
mitigation and / or compensation must be in place for the lifetime of either the waste
management facility or the lifetime of the non-waste development, to prevent foreseeable
issues arising in the future. This approach will ensure that both the existing waste
management facility, and the new non-waste development, can be acceptably allowed.
Recommended Change:
It is recommended that the first paragraph of this policy is amended to include “, the
sustainability of the existing facility …” after “long term need for the facility …”.
It is recommended that the second paragraph of this policy is amended to require that an
assessment of the potential for impacts between existing waste management facilities and
new, non-waste development will be required as part of the consideration of proposals for
new non-waste development, taking into account the type of waste management facility
which exists. If adverse impacts either on the new development, or on the existing waste
management facility are found to exist, these must be suitably addressed, mitigated against,
or compensated for, as part of the proposed new non-waste development proposal, and the
mitigation and / or compensation must be in place for the lifetime of either the waste
management facility or the lifetime of the non-waste development, to prevent foreseeable
issues arising in the future. This approach will ensure that both the existing waste
management facility, and the new non-waste development, can be acceptably allowed.