Waste Development Framework

Waste Core Strategy Submission Draft

Once adopted, the Waste Core Strategy will replace the Waste Local Plan and form part of the statutory development plan covering a period to 2026. It is the role of the Waste Core Strategy to establish the overarching principles and policy direction for determining waste planning applications within Suffolk during this period. It also identifies strategic waste management sites across the County.

The Waste Core Strategy Submission Draft was approved by Council on 10th December 2009 and submitted on March 19th 2010. A Public Hearing took place between the 6^th and 16^th of July. This document can be downloaded below:

Chapter 1 to 7 (PDF, 266 Kb)
Chapter 8
- Site 2: Former Sugar Refinery, Sproughton Road (PDF, 2.57 Mb)
- Site 27: Eye Airfield Industrial Estate (PDF, 1.56 Mb)
- Site 28: Masons Quarry (PDF, 2.22 Mb)
- Site 29: Suffolk County Council Highways Depot, Lodge Lane (PDF, 2.46 Mb)
Chapter 9
- Site W7: Layham Landfill Site (PDF, 2.65 Mb)
- Site 67: Thorington (PDF, 613 Kb)
- Site W17: Foxhall Landfill Site (PDF, 2.32 Mb)
- Site W11: Masons Landfill Site (PDF, 2.49 Mb)
Key Diagram (PDF, 255 Kb)
Proposal Map (PDF, 4.91 Mb)
Appendices (PDF, 268 Kb)

Consultation on the legality and soundness of the document, took place on Monday 11th January 2010 to Monday 22nd February 2010.

All the representations received have been forwarded to the Planning Inspectorate. An Inspector will now undertake an Examination in Public, including a public hearing, prior to producing a binding report to the County Council.

The Inspector will need to be satisfied that the Waste Core Strategy has complied with legislation in respect of the following criteria:

• has been prepared in accordance with the Suffolk’s Minerals and Waste Development Scheme and in compliance with the Statement of Community Involvement and the Development Plan Regulations;
• has been subject to sustainability appraisal;
• has had regard to national policy;
• conforms generally to the Regional Spatial Strategy; and
• has regard to any sustainable community strategy for its area.

The Inspector needed to be satisfied that the Waste Core Strategy was “sound.” To be sound the Waste Core Strategy should have been “justified, effective and consistent with National policy.”

Justified means that the Waste Core Strategy must be:

• founded on a robust and credible evidence base;
• the most appropriate strategy when considered against the reasonable alternatives.

Effective means that the document must be:

• deliverable;
• flexible;
• able to be monitored

Representations received can be view online at http://suffolk.jdi-consult.net/ldf/

At the same time the Final Sustainability Appraisal including a non-technical summary was the subject of public consultation. This document can be downloaded below:

Chapter 1: Non Technical Summary (PDF, 202 Kb)
Chapter 2 to 4 (PDF, 94.0 Kb)
Chapter 5
- Site 2: Former Sugar Refinery, Sproughton Road (PDF, 2.55 Mb)
- Site 27: Eye Airfield Industrial Estate (PDF, 1.56 Mb)
- Site 28: Masons Quarry (PDF, 2.22 Mb)
- Site 29: Suffolk County Council Highways Depot, Lodge Lane (PDF, 2.47 Mb)
- Site W7: Layham Landfill Site (PDF, 2.65 Mb)
- Site 67: Thorington (PDF, 612 Kb)
- Site W17: Foxhall Landfill Site (PDF, 2.32 Mb)
- Site W11: Masons Landfill Site (PDF, 2.48 Mb)
Chapter 5 to 7 & Appendices (PDF, 612 Kb)

A Consultation Statement (PDF, 54.3 Kb) has been prepared under the requirements of Regulation 27 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Development) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 to support the pre submission stage and an advertisement is included.

All Policies and proposed sites for residual waste treatment facilities and non-hazardous landfill have been assessed under the Conservation (Natural Habitats etc) Regulations 1994; please see Waste Core Strategy Habitats Regulations Assessment Report (PDF, 106 Kb).

Supporting Documents

The following documents have been submitted in support of the Waste Core Strategy:

Consultation Responses – Regulation 28 (PDF, 2.97 Mb)
Regulation 30 Consultation Statement re Regulation 25 (PDF, 1.12 Mb)
Responses to Representation (PDF, 1.20 Mb)
Summary of Main Issues – Regulation 28 (PDF, 198 Kb)
WCS Composite Minor post-publication changes (PDF, 3.32 Mb)
WCS Inspector's post-publication changes (PDF, 204 Kb)
WCS Post-publication changes to policy WCS22 (PDF, 143 Kb)

What happens next

The next stages of the process are programmed as follows.

• Publication of the Inspector’s Report to Suffolk County Council in October 2010.
• Adoption of the Waste Core Strategy as planning policy by Suffolk County Council in December 2010.