Consultation Submissions

UKWIN is collecting and archiving waste consultation submissions in order to provide members with ideas, arguments and sources to draw upon for their own local waste consultation responses.

National Consultations

Treasury PFI Reform Call for Evidence

• HM-Treasury PFI Reform Consultation Page
• UKWIN’s response to the Treasury’s PFI Reform Call for Evidence (PDF)

DCLG’s informal consultation on the Weekly Collections Support Scheme

• Written Ministerial Statement by Eric Pickles on the fund, 10 October 2011.
• Trade press article on informal consultation (Letsrecycle).
• UKWIN’s submission to DCLG’s informal consultation on the Weekly Collections Support Scheme, November 2011 (PDF).

National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) review, 2011

• Consultation documents.
• UKWIN’s NPPF submission of November 2011 (PDF).

The various consultation responses to Defra’s 2010 Call for Evidence to inform their review of waste policies could also be helpful as they contain referenced arguments against incineration and in favour of more sustainable waste management:

• UKWIN’s submission to Defra’s call for evidence.
• Friends of the Earth’s submission to Defra’s call for evidence.
• Dalton Incinerator Steering Committee’s submission to Defra’s call for evidence.
• Zero Waste Alliance UK’s submission to Defra’s call for evidence.
• The 2020 Zero Waste Project’s submission to Defra’s call for evidence.
• James Greyson’s submission to Defra’s call for evidence.

And for a slightly different perspective:

• The Environmental Services Association (ESA)’s submission to Defra’s call for evidence.
• Veolia’s submission to Defra’s call for evidence.
• SITA’s submission to Defra’s call for evidence.

Starting on Tuesday 14th June 2011 Defra released a series of documents as part of their Waste Review.

The following documents were released by Defra in June 2011:

• Government Review of Waste Policy in England 2011 (WR)
• The Economics of Waste and Waste Policy
• Government Review of Waste Policy in England 2011 Action plan
• Review of Waste Policies – Impact Assessment
• Guidance on applying the Waste Hierarchy
• Applying the Waste Hierarchy: evidence summary
• Anaerobic Digestion Strategy and Action Plan

UKWIN has produced a briefing on the Government’s waste review and associated documents and produced a 2-page initial response.

Sub-Regional Consultations

Nottinghamshire and Nottingham Waste Core Strategy Proposed Submission Document Consultation (April 2012)

• Consultation documents.
• People Against Incineration’s consultation response (PDF)

Hertfordshire Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy consultation (November 2011)

• Hearing Statements for the Waste Core Strategy Examination.
  Note: Those from Herts Without Waste are particularly worth reading.

Nottinghamshire and Nottingham Waste Core Strategy (Further Issues and Options Consultation September 2010)

• Consultation documents.
• People Against Incineration’s consultation response (PDF).

Essex County Council and Southend-on-Sea Borough Council Waste Strategy Development Document (Issues and Options Consultation October 2010)

• Consultation documents.
• Essex Friends of the Earth’s consultation response (PDF).

Gloucestershire County Council’s Strategic review of the Residual Waste PFI Project

• SWARD’s response (December 2010) (PDF).

Please send your group’s consultation response to: shlomo.dowen@gmail.com

Local Planning Objections / Proofs of Evidence

While every incinerator proposal is different, there is value in seeing what arguments others have made and how they have framed them. Below are links to planning objections and public inquiry submissions where the local group are happy for their work to be used to inform others working for a United Kingdom without incineration.
Planning Application Objections

• NYWAG objections to the “Allerton Waste Recovery Park” in North Yorkshire

Public Inquiry Representations and Proofs of Evidence

• PAIN objections to the “Rufford Energy Recovery Facility” in the East Midlands

Note:
Further information about Waste Strategies, including the Tests of Soundness applied by the Planning Inspectorate as part of the Examination in Public, is available from: http://ukwin.org.uk/resources/waste-strategies/