Barnsley, Doncaster & Rotherham
Joint Strategic Waste Development Plan Document
Issues & Options Consultation: 4th February to 21st March 2008
The Joint Strategic Waste Development Plan Document (DPD) will form part of the three authorities' Local Development Frameworks. The first stage of preparing the DPD is this Issues and Options Consultation. The Issues and Options Document includes a number of sites across the three local authority areas that could be considered for strategic waste management facilities.
Consultation Documents
You can download the consultation documents here:
The main Issues & Options document (3.1 Mb)
A summary leaflet (351 Kb)
A Questionnaire (38 Kb) (PDF format). Alternatively, you can download the 
Questionnaire (67 Kb) in RTF format. This can be filled-in using MS Word and most other word processing software.
A Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report (3.6 Mb) and a Non-technical Summary (777 Kb) which sets out a number of draft sustainability objectives against which we will assess the emerging DPD.
A Draft Habitats Regulations Assessment Methodology (713 Kb) which sets out how the potential impact of the plan on internationally important nature conservation sites will be assessed.
In addition, hard copies of the main Issues and Options document, summary leaflet, questionnaire and Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report Non-Technical Summary are available to view at local libraries and Connect/customer service centres across Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham. Alternatively, you can request copies of any of the documents above from your relevant Council on the following numbers:
- Barnsley: 01226 772619
- Doncaster: 01302 734560
- Rotherham: 01709 823888
Comments should be made on the questionnaire, which can be downloaded above, or paper copies of the form can be obtained by telephoning your relevant council on the number shown above. Any comments must be received by the 21st March 2008.
Responses can then be returned by the following means:
By E-mail: Lisa.Walduck@landuse.co.uk
By Post: Lisa Walduck, Environmental Planner, Land Use Consultants, 43 Chalton Street
London NW1 1JD
Consultation Events
An evening community event will be held within each of the authorities' areas on the following dates:
- Barnsley: 18th February 2008, 7-9 pm, Barnsley Central Library
- Rotherham: 19th February 2008, 7-9 pm, Bailey House
- Doncaster: 21st February 2008, 7-9 pm, Mansion House
These events are open to the public.
Map showing the location of Bailey House
Next Steps
The comments received during this consultation will be carefully considered and taken into account as the three authorities prepare the next stage of the DPD (known as Preferred Options). Please note that all consultation responses received will become public documents, and we are unable to receive any confidential or anonymous comments
This page is also available on our partner authorities’ websites:
www.barnsley.gov.uk/wastedpd
www.doncaster.gov.uk/wastedpd
Frequently asked questions
1. What is the Barnsley, Rotherham and Doncaster Joint Strategic Waste DPD?
Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Councils (BDR) are required by law to plan for the appropriate provision of waste management facilities. They are therefore producing a Joint Strategic Waste Development Plan Document which will provide the planning policies for strategic waste management facilities in BDR and will allocate sites suitable for the management of waste over the period 2010 to 2026.
2. Why is the document called ‘Issues and Options’?
There are a number of stages in the preparation of the Joint Strategic Waste DPD. This is the first stage and it is all about identifying the issues involved with providing strategic waste management facilities, and considering the options in relation to waste management sites in the three Boroughs. Consultation on the issues and options is about consulting you before there are any firm proposals. The issues and options set out in the DPD are not our firm proposals. These will come later when we have further considered the issues and options and undertaken a sustainability appraisal of the options. We will consult you again with what we think are the best ways forward, which will be called the ‘Preferred Options’ consultation.
3. What is a DPD and how does it link to other documents being produced by the Councils?
A DPD, or Development Plan Document, is one of a number of documents which make up a folder of local development documents called the Local Development Framework (LDF).
The LDF sets out the spatial strategy and policies and proposals for development and other land uses in a local authority area. Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham are each producing their own separate LDFs, and the Joint Strategic Waste DPD will form part of the separate LDFs, along with other DPDs that the Councils are separately producing (e.g. Core Strategies, Area Action Plans).
The diagram below shows how the Joint Strategic Waste DPD fits into each of the Councils’ LDFs.
4. Why are Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham required to plan for the appropriate provision of waste management facilities?
The Government produced the most recent Waste Strategy for England in 2007:
http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/waste/strategy/
The overall aim of this national Strategy is to try to move away from waste disposal (landfill) and use waste management initiatives higher up the ‘waste hierarchy’ as shown below, with prevention of waste being the ultimate aim.
The Waste Hierarchy
In order to meet the aims and targets of this strategy, Waste Planning Authorities need to find enough sites to accommodate new waste management facilities. The Joint Strategic Waste DPD aims to achieve this.
5. Why have Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham Councils decided to work together on the DPD?
In order to reduce the distances over which waste is transported, and given the need for different types of waste treatment, some larger waste management facilities are likely to be shared resources for the three Boroughs. The Government Office for Yorkshire and Humber has encouraged and is supportive of joint working between boroughs in the region to develop joint planning documents.
6. What is the relationship between the Joint Strategic Waste DPD and the Councils’ Municipal Waste Management Strategies?
Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham have separately prepared Municipal Waste Management Strategies.
These strategies make choices about the technologies used to treat waste, focussing on municipal waste i.e. waste collected from your home and any other types of waste collected by waste collection authorities. The Joint Strategic Waste DPD is not about making technological choices. Instead it will provide the sites which will enable the delivery of the Municipal Waste Management Strategies. Municipal Waste Management Strategies therefore address the ‘how’ while the Joint Strategic Waste DPD addresses the ‘where’.
By not prescribing specific waste management technologies for different sites, the Joint Strategic Waste DPD should help to encourage innovation and provide more flexibility for the waste management industry to come forward with proposals for facilities incorporating any technology as appropriate, including any new technologies that may be developed in the future.
7. What are waste management facilities?
Waste management facilities include one or more of the following:
- ‘Civic Amenity Sites’ or ‘Household Waste Recycling Centres’, where members of the public can bring a variety of household waste, before it gets taken to other facilities for recycling, composting or further treatment (see below);
- ‘Material Recycling Facilities’, where recyclables are separated and bulked together prior to despatch to waste reprocessors who remanufacture the materials into recycled products;
- Treatment facilities, which use mechanical, biological and thermal processes to sort and treat waste;
- Disposal facilities, i.e. landfills.
Despite differences between the waste management technologies employed within them, most material recycling and treatment facilities are enclosed. All waste facilities must be operated in line with environmental protection techniques and standards, are similar to industrial warehouses in appearance, and are regulated by the Environment Agency. However, some organic waste composting operations are undertaken in the open air.
8. What are strategic waste management sites?
Strategic sites have been defined by BDR as large sites, which are typically five hectares or more and are capable of providing a significant amount of the required capacity for waste management in BDR. Facilities developed on strategic sites allocated in the Joint Strategic Waste DPD will deal with waste from all three Boroughs. Smaller sites may also be needed to deal separately with waste from the Borough in which they are located. These sites will not be allocated within the Joint Strategic Waste DPD, but dealt with through policies in other DPDs in each Borough’s LDF.
9. Does the DPD deal with waste collection issues?
No it doesn’t. As a planning document, the Joint Strategic Waste DPD deals with the management of waste after it has been collected. The collection of waste is planned for within Municipal Waste Management Strategies, and dealt with by separate waste collection authorities (within the Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Councils).
10. Why have sites listed in the DPD been chosen?
The sites listed in the DPD are not firm proposals at this stage. They are simply a starting point and the Issues and Options consultation will give you a chance to comment on their suitability.
National and regional policy indicates that industrial sites and working quarries and landfill sites should be considered for future waste uses. Therefore, initial work carried out by the boroughs has identified a number of potential strategic sites for consideration, which include all sites allocated for employment uses that are typically five hectares or above.
11. Will the sites identified in the Issues and Options consultation document definitely be used for waste management?
No. Indeed most will almost certainly not be used for waste management. The sites in the Joint Strategic Waste DPD represent an initial list of potential options. The consultation process on the DPD will allow people to comment on the suitability of these sites, and potentially put new sites forward which they feel may be suitable. Additional work will take place following the consultation period, and the short list of potentially suitable sites will be assessed through site visits and desk-based sustainability appraisal.
Following the site appraisals, a ‘Preferred Options’ document will be developed and published for consultation. This will set out the preferred sites i.e. those which have been assessed as most suitable from the initial list and any suitable sites that are put forward through consultation. This Preferred Options document will be subject to public consultation, and you will be able to comment on them again at this stage of the DPD preparation.
12. If I have a site which I think is suitable for a waste management facility, what should I do?
We would welcome any suggestions for strategic waste management sites. If you have a site which you think may be suitable, please fill in the questions relating to “potential sites for strategic waste facilities” in the consultation questionnaire which is available to download on the three Councils’ websites. Alternatively, please contact your relevant council for a paper copy.
13. When will new waste management facilities be built?
The final Joint Strategic Waste DPD is not due to be adopted until 2010 and will cover the period to 2026. Before a strategic waste management facility could be built, it would need to obtain planning permission. Any proposals for strategic waste management facilities will need to go through the planning application process and be assessed against policies in the final Joint Strategic Waste DPD.
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