Issue - meetings

The Cabinet received a report on the draft East London Joint Waste Plan (ELJWP) and the arrangements for public consultation in accordance with Regulation 18 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012. 

The ELJWP would provide the strategic vision and objectives for the sustainable management of waste in east London for the period up to 2041 and help to ensure that there continued to be sufficient capacity to manage waste in East London in the most sustainable way.  The evidence base for the ELJWP demonstrated that there was a significant surplus capacity for waste management facilities in east London and it was proposed, therefore, to release five existing waste sites in Barking and Dagenham from safeguarding as a waste use, on the basis that they conflicted with land use policy and the Council’s ambitions set out within the draft Local Plan 2037.

Cabinet resolved to:

(i)  Agree the publication of the Regulation 18 draft ELJWP at Appendix 1 to the report, its related policies map and supporting information, for a six-week statutory public consultation anticipated to commence in late July 2024;

(ii)  Delegate authority to the Strategic Head of Place and Development, Inclusive Growth (or equivalent) to finalise the draft ELJWP and supporting information, including appendices, related evidence base and topic papers, prior to undertaking the Regulation 18 public consultation;

(iii)  Delegate authority to the Strategic Head of Place and Development, Inclusive Growth (or equivalent) to make the arrangements for statutory public consultation, in accordance with the Consultation Protocol attached at Appendix 2 to the report; and

(iv)  Note the related Draft Integrated Impact Assessment and the Draft Habitats Regulation Assessment attached at Appendices 3 and 4 respectively to the report.