Local Requirements - Additional Requirements for Waste Development

Local information requirements

In addition to the Local Information Requirements for Major Planning Applications, planning applications for waste development must also include the following information.

General principles statement

All applications for the management, treatment or disposal of waste must include a statement, which clearly demonstrates the following:

• The proposal is a sustainable waste management option - Planning applications will only be considered when the proposal clearly demonstrates how the management, treatment or disposal of the waste is in accordance with the sustainable principles set out in the Bradford Local Plan (including the Bradford Waste Management DPD or any replacement document). Proposals should seek to move management, treatment or disposal up the ‘waste hierarchy’ of reduction, re-use, recycling and composting, using the waste as a source of energy, and only disposing as a last resort.
• The proposal meets the needs of the community and the District - The Council expects the applicant to demonstrate a quantitative or market need for the proposal based on the information set out in the Bradford Local Plan (including the Bradford Waste Management DPD or any replacement document). Planning applications will only be considered when this has been clearly demonstrated.

Supporting statement

All applications for waste development must be accompanied by a supporting statement containing the following items of information:

• A detailed description of the proposed development including any waste recovery operations.
• A specification of the type and quantity of waste/scrap/vehicles to be accepted at the site in cubic metres/tonnes/number of vehicles per day.
• Details of the materials to be retained and those which are to be removed from the site.
• Stockpile locations and dimensions.
• The maximum quantity of waste/scrap/vehicles to be present on the site at any time.
• The proposed hours of working
• An assessment of the number and type of vehicle movements per day from the site.
• Details of the type of plant and machinery to be used on site.
• Transport issues and access arrangements
• Environmental effects (visual impact, noise, dust, odour, ground or water pollution) of the proposal and mitigation measures.
• Any other relevant information.

Drawings

The submitted drawings must include the following details:

• Land ownership boundaries.
• Scaled plans and full details of any existing or proposed built development  
• The site access, vehicle turning space and parking facilities for staff and visitors.
• Areas of existing and proposed hard standing.
• Existing and proposed site drainage and ground/surface water pollution prevention measures.
• Areas designated for waste/scrap/vehicle reception, sorting, and storage with a statement of the maximum height of waste/scrap/vehicle storage.
• Existing and proposed landscaping and screening.
• Existing and proposed site fencing and walling or other boundary treatment.
• Any other information, which is relevant to your application.

Additional requirements for applications for the disposal of waste (landfill)

In addition to the above requirements, applications for the disposal of waste must also include a supporting statement containing the following information:

The reason for requiring the deposit of waste

Generally there is a presumption against the disposal (landfilling) of waste which can be re-used or recycled, for example construction and demolition waste which can recycled to produce secondary aggregates.

Reasons will normally fall within one of four categories:

• Improvement of Agricultural Land - These proposals involve the filling in of small valleys, depressions and gullies with waste.  It is inevitable that landfill will permanently alter the landscape of an area, so you will need to justify its use as an appropriate means of improving the land. Such landfilling will only be acceptable provided it is demonstrated that such development will lead to a significant agricultural improvement, which could not be reasonably achieved by any other means. Poorly drained land might be better improved by installing or repairing a field drainage system.
• Reclamation Scheme - Landfilling can provide the economic incentive to improve the appearance of derelict and despoiled land to the overall benefit of the area.  You will need to supply information to show:
  • The nature of the dereliction
  • How the deposit of waste will improve the situation as opposed to other restoration measures
  • The shape of the new landform, and
  • How the site will be restored to a beneficial after use.

Disused quarry workings or depressions may have naturally revegetated to the extent that they are now an attractive and intrinsic part of the landscape, and you will need to justify the use of landfill at these locations as a means of restoration and reclamation.

• Landfill as a prerequisite of further development - Low-lying, poorly drained or sloping land may act as constraints against further development.  Landfilling may assist in removing these constraints.  If this is your purpose for landfilling you will need to demonstrate that it will facilitate the proposed development, and show why an acceptable development could not be achieved through ‘cut and fill’ techniques or other design changes.
• Waste Disposal Site - Landfill development of this type is clearly distinguished from other forms of landfill in that the principal purpose of the development is to provide a permanent resting place for waste. 

Other information

• Composition of the waste.
• Technical matters, how site engineered
• The amounts of waste.
• Timescale.
• Access, including preventing mud on road
• Transport issues
• Hours of working.
• Existing condition of the land.
• What measures are proposed to reduce the visual impact of the tipping operations for example screening bunds or tree and shrub planting?

Drawings

It will always be necessary to submit drawings showing the landfill proposal. The following information should be regarded as a minimum requirement.

• The extent of the area to be tipped.
• A land survey showing existing ground levels of the area to be landfilled.
• A drawing showing the contours of the land on completion of landfilling and restoration. The contours should extend sufficient distance beyond the landfilled area so that the relationship between the new ground levels and surrounding ground levels is clearly shown. Alternatively, clear and accurate cross-section drawings may be submitted.
• Site access and vehicle turning space, showing details of construction and layout.
• Areas to be used for storage of sub-soil and topsoil and any stockpiled material.
• Existing and proposed drainage details for example culverts, surface streams, field drains.
• Landscaping/after use proposals.
• Any constraints to landfilling such as a footpath, gas or electricity supplies.

Any other information, which is relevant to the reason for requiring the deposit of waste.