Bradford Waste Management DPD
The Bradford Waste Management DPD will set out the Council’s spatial strategy for dealing with waste within the District. It will identify waste management sites for dealing with the different streams of waste.
The Waste Management DPD is being prepared by the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council as part of the Local Development Framework for Bradford.
Considerable work has already been undertaken in support of waste management in the Bradford District through the LDF Core Strategy Further Issues and Options. The Council is committed to the preparation of a DPD for waste management which seeks to build upon the work already undertaken and to bring this all together into the statutory planning system. The Waste Management DPD will:
- Set out the broad vision for the future of waste management within the District and objectives for sustainable development of waste management over the next 10 – 20 years.
- Set out spatial policies for steering and shaping the development of waste management to deliver both the vision and objectives
- In particular, set out the potential locations for new waste management facilities
- Take account of national and regional policy and the Council’s policies in the 2020 Bradford Vision and Community Strategy and the emerging Core Strategy
The Council has commenced the preparation of the waste Management DPD with the preparation of an Issues and Options report and its publication for comment. The Council seeks views on both the issues set out but also the potential approaches to planning for waste over the next 15 years. At this stage it has not identified sites but has established a potential long list which will be subject to further refinement and assessment following the current consultation on the assessment criteria.
The Waste Management Development Plan Documents currently available as part of the consultation are set out below. Copies of these documents are available by following the links, or hard reference copies are also available in the Council’s Planning Offices at: Jacob’s Well, Bradford, and the Town Halls at Ilkley, Keighley and Shipley. Or in the Main Libraries at: Shipley, Bingley and Bradford Central Library. In addition, hard copies are available on request from the LDF Group.
Other background documents are:
Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report
The Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report forms the first stage of the sustainability appraisal of the Bradford Waste Development Plan Document. The Report collects together the baseline data and information on other plans, policies and programmes that can have an influence on the production of the Bradford Waste DPD. Based on this context, sustainability appraisal objectives and indicators are identified and issues set out to form a draft framework, which will then be used to measure the performance of the plan. The Sustainability Appraisal (SA) also incorporates the requirements of the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA).
The Council previously invited comments on the Draft Scoping Report in August 2007. Following a review of the comments received it was deemed necessary to make some small amendments to ensure that the SA of the Waste DPD is consistent with the SA of the Core Strategy, as well as taking on board the more specific comments received. Consultation on the amended scoping report took place between December 2008 and January 2009. The consultation document can be found in the link below. Please note that this consultation has now ended.
