The Waste Development Plan Document will provide the detailed policy framework for assessing planning applications for waste related developments and also allocate sites for a range of new waste management facilities to meet our recycling and recovery targets in the period to 2026.  It will set out how we will manage and treat waste from industrial and business sources as well as from our homes to meet our recycling and recovery targets.  

The Waste Development Plan Document is one of the key elements of Wakefield’s Local Development Framework.  Specifically, it aims to: 

• reduce or minimise the amount of waste we produce;
• recycle as much as possible rather than send waste to landfill sites in line with national and regional policy; and
• re use waste as a resource, wherever possible.  

The process has involved extensive consultation with a variety of organisations and stakeholders including community groups, environmental bodies, local councillors and representatives of the waste industry. A short information note about the document and how you can get involved in its preparation is available (see ‘Downloads’).  

The Waste Development Plan Document has been prepared within the context of national, regional and local policy. The Core Strategy is the main overarching document in the LDF and sets out the overall planning strategy for sustainable waste management in the district.    

The document also takes into account the municipal waste management strategy and proposed municipal waste management facility at South Kirkby Business Park.  

Alongside its preparation we have carried out an appropriate assessment and sustainability appraisal (which assesses the likely environmental, social and economic effects of its policies and proposals).

A final round of consultation will follow in spring 2009. Comments received from this consultation will be considered by an independent planning inspector appointed by the government to hold the public examination into the Waste Development Plan Document. 

The Waste Development Plan Document is due to be adopted in spring 2010 following the public examination.