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Summary of events at Workshop 5

 

Workshop 5 was held on 23 September 2004. An all-day event was held at Winchester Guildhall and an abridged evening session at the Hampshire County Council offices in Winchester. 100 and 15 people respectively attended the day and evening sessions.

 

 

The stakeholders were given a presentation on the overall resource picture arising from the work of the off-line ‘resource groups’, including the option appraisal process discussed at Workshop 4. The presentation outlined that ‘stretching best practice’ had emerged as the preferred option for improving resource efficiency and reducing wastage, and for recycling for each resource stream. The implications in terms of reducing waste growth (aim to limit to an additional 1 million tonnes by 2020, recycling (about 50% overall by 2020) and residual waste (3 million tonnes in 2020) were also outlined.

The above results were then discussed in two workshop sessions. The first looked at the validity of the findings and the extent to which the ‘stretching best practice’ option is achievable. The second workshop then looked at action planning for the process chain and each resource stream in terms of moving forward to implementation. Whilst some issues were raised about the detailed resource stream analyses, overall there was agreement that ‘stretching best practice’ was a challenging but reasonable option.

 

After lunch, the agenda then moved on the dealing with the remaining waste – unavoidable or residual waste, and meeting the demand for minerals.

 

Stakeholders received a presentation on the available options and technologies for dealing with unavoidable waste. A workshop session was then held to discuss the options and identify the key option-specific issues that would need to be considered if the various options were to be employed in Hampshire, Portsmouth and Southampton. There was recognition that there were pros and cons to all options and that landfill was the only one that is, to some extent non-optional.

 

There was then a presentation on minerals and soils issues, including the process by which Government sets minerals targets for each area. A workshop was then held to debate the minerals targets imposed by the Government and what might be considered the most appropriate balance between different minerals sources. In summary, the general view was that the local authorities should seek to reduce the apportionment for primary sand and gravel as proposed by the Government and the Region.

 

The evening session was abridged because of time constraints. The stakeholders were given a summary of the views from the event earlier in the day and given the opportunity to comment. The discussion then focussed on minerals issues, there being a divergence of opinion over the apportionment issue.

 

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