Feedback Wk 2

What are you views on the proposed Strategic Objectives?

Element 3 – Enabling delivery on the ground

To identify the sites required for primary materials extractions.

To identify scale of infrastructure to enable material resources management and reduce the need for traditional waste disposal.

To identify where to locate the infrastructure needed for resource management and residual waste management.

To identify detailed proposals for key facilities.

To appraise the most appropriate sites for facilities, be it urban or rural, brownfield or greenfield, etc., with regard to environmental, social and economic objectives.

To provide flexibility in transportation, particularly in securing distant markets and outlets for recycled/recovered products, by identifying sites with opportunities for movement by water and rail.

Table 2

Initial Views

Planning for the future as best as is possible. Plastic recycling may become redundant if we produce new technology for products.
Planning Constraints – green belt, rural sites, temporary sites/permanent sites.
Transport – making sure that sites are situated in the best possible place and accommodate all needs – community, business, recycling aggregate/waste construction etc.
Long term vision – beyond incineration – what happens when recycling increases and calorific value of waste reduces energy levels?

Table 3

Initial Views

Look to link with other initiatives so there is a bigger gain i.e. renewable energy/education centres.
Need to have systems for restoration/improving areas of development/extraction.
Determine trigger mechanisms to commence enhancement or redevelopment objectives.

Rewording

Wording should be more area-based than site specific.

Additional Objectives

Need to identify that no individual area should have to tolerate repeated extraction over long time periods – determine timescales/deadlines.
To select sites for facilities – taking into consideration the environmental impact regardless of whether it is urban or rural or greenfield e.g. Brownfield sites are often the only open areas in a town, city etc…

Table 9

Initial Views

Bit defeatist (should ensure maximum use is made of what we have got) - look at existing sites first before new sites. Need to be more positively worded.
Nothing that links back to the other two elements. Not enough.
Greater engagement with the public needed re. marketing end sales.
Hampshire not referenced - but not necessarily a bad thing! Need to recognise that there will be cross-border movement of waste.

Amendments

Words are a bit woolly - needs to be smart
Marketing and sales are an important part of the delivery of on the ground processes. Important in development of the business case - economic arguments for facilities. Look at catchment area. Too planning focussed! - Look at it as an end product.
Small business initiatives to prevent fly-tipping.

1 – this principle is inappropriate.
2 – needs to reflect sustainability (economic, environmental and social costs). Degree of overlap with 5^th objective. Already achieved?
6 – do not like the words ‘To provide flexibility’. Look for sites with opportunities first - put objective other way around.

Additions

Get out of traditional planning box - think more laterally.
Delivery via marketing and sales (for recycling market)
Improvement in development of the business case - economic arguments for facilities are required for delivery.
Ensure maximum use is made of what we have got before looking at the need for opening new sites.

Table 10

Initial Views

Recycled aggregate sites - should be closer to sources of material.

Amendments

‘Sites required’ – need to look at what is needed and where it is needed.
Locate sites close to source.
Proximity to main roads.

2 – explain the various facilities/treatments (types of infrastructure) in more detail – expand this point.
5 – the community must be informed, a whole communications programme is required to explain it to people, what/why etc.

Consider mass/bulk of the material in question – when delivering sites.
Look into the transport options available when choosing site locations.

Additions

Boundary issues – sites located close to boundaries. Need to consider impacts on both sides of a boundary.
Identification of key sites.
Regional and localised solutions – there are different needs at different scales
What should MWDF include? Big, strategic sites should be identified. Smaller sites – have criteria to guide the process, to guide LDFs.
Producer responsibility – extends beyond cars/electrical to take in many more products.
Hierarchy of transportation routes/options for major sites.
Need for sand and gravel.

Table 11

Amendments

1 – why so specific? Don’t agree with specific reference to primary material extraction. Need to highlight the need to reduce the need for primary materials extractions through infrastructure development e.g. aggregate transfer stations for recycled aggregates.
2 – change ‘and reduce’ to ‘to reduce’ OR reword: ‘to identify scale of infrastructure to enable material resources management to reduce the need for traditional waste disposal and primary materials extractions’.
4 – clarify what is meant by ‘detailed’ proposals.

Strategic Objective 5:
- contains two separate points – need to clarify
- shouldn’t be to ‘appraise the most appropriate sites’ – appraise all sites
- process should identify the most appropriate sites
- doesn’t take into account deliverability (land ownership)

6 – delete everything after ‘products’.

Additions

Assess the deliverability of potential sites
Identify key additional strategic objective or issue?

Table 12

Amendments

Introduction needs to include landfill. Needs a landfill provision objective.
Strategic objectives are too waste orientated – need to be wider.
Include micro-provision – all embracing small units dealing with waste.

Additions

To provide a flexible policy framework to allow for the delivery of a variety of facilities. To identify criteria to achieve that flexibility.
Need for a landraising objective?
To involve landowners to ensure deliverability.
To meet regional needs for minerals and waste.
To work with research institutions to bring forward the latest technological solutions on the ground.

Table 2 (evening)

Amendments

2 – Reword - too condensed, use an example.
5 – Debate over whether to include ‘be it urban or rural‘. As it opens it up to people’s interpretation. The emphasis is on the appraisal not on where sites might be.