Waste Planning

Waste Core Strategy Submission Draft

The above document is under consultation from Monday 11th January to 5pm Monday 22nd February 2010. For further information please visit Waste Development Framework webpage.


Suffolk County Council are responsible for dealing with all waste planning matters. This includes:
  • authorising planning applications for waste management facilities and related development;
  • monitoring of sites for compliance with planning conditions;
  • preparation and implementation of planning policies to control waste planning matters; and
  • taking enforcement action against unauthorised development.

Waste Planning Policy

The new national planning system requires the replacement of the existing Waste Local Plan with a Minerals and Waste Development Framework (M&WDF). This process has commenced in Suffolk and will include a set of Waste Development Plan Documents to guide waste planning in the county for the next 15 years.