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As a result of that second NLWA letter in particular, an email winged its way to the NLWA
in red below.
The NLWA's reply, today, is in blue.
in red below.
The NLWA's reply, today, is in blue.
"In order to avoid any misunderstanding, please confirm the following:
- Waste will only be received at Pinkham Way from "Barnet, western Haringey and western Enfield".
Does that mean that all waste from consolidation sites (transferring from dustcarts to larger lorries) at Hornsey, and conceivably at a new facility at Hendon, will never go to Pinkham Way for processing? This implies this waste (from other boroughs) will always be driven past Pinkham Way, on its way to Edmonton.
Also, since Hendon currently takes some of west London's waste (presumably from Brent and/or Harrow), please confirm that none of that will ever go to Pinkham Way either.
Will you be putting your quoted statement above in your planning application? Will your statement apply for the lifetime of any contract?
- Reply: "Pinkham Way will treat wastes principally from the boroughs of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey."
- The creation of incinerator fuel at Pinkham Way helps north London residents dispose of waste in a "more sustainable way".
Consider the waste stream remaining, after mechanical and biological treatment at Pinkham Way to remove some recyclables and food waste. How is the burning of the materials in the residual waste "sustainable", or does the sustainabilty comment not apply to that material?
Does it, for instance, contain waste that might, through better technologies and behavioural changes, be capable of recycling, such as paper and plastics, but is deliberately kept in this fuel stream, so that the calorific value is sufficiently high for the incinerator contract?
Does the supply of waste at Pinkham Way and Edmonton over the next "25 to 35 years" have to be maintained at a minimum tonnage, and a particular calorific value, by the NLWA, for the avoidance of financial penalties? Will you be stating what those minmum levels will be, in your Pinkham Way planning application?
- Reply:"Creating SRF from residual wastes and using it to generate energy is more sustainable than landfilling it. We are 'sizing' our residual waste facilities on the basis that we and the boroughs achieve a 50% recycling rate, so that recycling (which is generally even more sustainable) can still be maximised in North London."
- Are you satisified you can seek approval of planning permission for Pinkham Way, without it necessarily being compliant with the submission copy of the 'North London Waste Plan'?
The submitted NLWP has not yet been published, consulted on, publicly examined, or approved by government.
Has the NLWA carried out a risk analysis, in case you are left with a rather expensive nature reserve at Pinkham Way? Is that risk analysis in the public domain?
- Reply: Until a new policy or plan is fully adopted the current policies and plans remain and are the basis on which applications are considered, however emerging planning policy is also a material planning consideration. In accordance with advice from Communities and Local Government and as set out in Planning System - General Principles document (which accompanies Planning Policy Statement 1: Delivering Sustainable Development) the weight to be attached to emerging DPD policies depends upon the stage of preparation or review, increasing as successive stages are reached. Given that the North London Waste Plan is in the latter stages of preparation, the policies in this document will be given considerable weight in the assessment of the application. Where policies in both the adopted and emerging planning policies apply, both will be considered and where there is any conflict between the policies, preference will be given to the adopted policies.
It is therefore not the case that an application for a waste facility on a site allocated in a draft plan cannot be submitted, simply that if the draft plan is not finalised by the time the planning application is considered, then both the current and emerging policy, will be used in determining the application.
The North London Waste Authority and Barnet council propose to submit an outline application for a waste facility and vehicle parking depot on the Pinkham Way site. This outline application will be considered by Haringey as the local planning authority in line with current planning policy, in this case Haringey’s Unitary Development Plan which is the statutory plan relating to the use of land and buildings for the whole borough. The Unitary Development Plan contains a set of policies which are used to help decide whether individual planning applications should be allowed or refused. The Unitary Development Plan is being replaced by the council’s Local Development Framework of which the North London Waste Plan will be a part. The adopted Unitary Development plan will therefore be the guiding document in the determination of the application, but the North London Waste Plan and other parts of the Local Development Framework will also be a material consideration which will be taken into account.
The process of determining the soundness of the draft NLWP will be made by the Planning Inspector separately and independently of any current planning applications. Residents have an opportunity to comment upon the soundness of the NLWP as part of the current pre-submission draft consultation. Additionally and separately residents can comment upon the outline planning application, which will be submitted by the NLWA and London Borough of Barnet, as part of Haringey Council’s statutory consultation process as part of the planning application process."
- Reply: Until a new policy or plan is fully adopted the current policies and plans remain and are the basis on which applications are considered, however emerging planning policy is also a material planning consideration. In accordance with advice from Communities and Local Government and as set out in Planning System - General Principles document (which accompanies Planning Policy Statement 1: Delivering Sustainable Development) the weight to be attached to emerging DPD policies depends upon the stage of preparation or review, increasing as successive stages are reached. Given that the North London Waste Plan is in the latter stages of preparation, the policies in this document will be given considerable weight in the assessment of the application. Where policies in both the adopted and emerging planning policies apply, both will be considered and where there is any conflict between the policies, preference will be given to the adopted policies.
A further email has been sent to the NLWA today (2 June):
"Thank you for your email below.
"Please be kind enough to answer the question you have missed from the 21 April query:
"Does the supply of waste at Pinkham Way and Edmonton over the next '25 to 35 years' have to be maintained at a minimum tonnage, and a particular calorific value, by the NLWA, for the avoidance of financial penalties?"Thank you for your urgent consideration of your additional reply."
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