Role

Responsibility

Waste Disposal Authority

• Preparation of MWMS - take opportunities to engage with planning colleagues who are developing waste policy. The process is not dissimilar, and opportunities are available to undertake joint sustainability assessment and community consultation.

• To avoid options in the MWMS being developed which are inconsistent with the spatial strategy and development plan for an area, ensure the WDA is represented in key discussions with the WPA throughout preparation of the waste elements of the LDF, and vice versa for the preparation of the MWMS.

• Co-ordinate the timetable for production of the MWMS with those of the DPD and core strategy. Community involvement, stakeholder participation and SA/SEA initiatives should be co- ordinated. Engage with the development of and revision to the RSS.

• Ensure sufficient time is incorporated into the timetable to fulfil all planning and community engagement requirements. If the application is to be submitted in advance of an allocation in emerging DPD, there will be even greater need to ensure some form of pre-application community involvement is undertaken in addition to pre-application discussions with planning officers and statutory consultees. The team needs to be aware that to proceed with a procurement on a site that is not allocated in a DPD will increase the risk that a planning permission will not be granted. To ensure that delays in processing the application are kept to a minimum, the procurement team (and/or their advisers and/or the Contractor) should liaise closely with the planning authority to ensure that the application is accompanied by all the necessary information.

Waste Planning Authority

Policy planning

• Preparation of the waste elements of the LDF and associated DPD and SPD, SCI, SA/SEA and monitoring - liaise closely with officers in the WDA preparing the MWMS (refer to comments above on joint working).

• Ensure the development of the waste elements of the LDF address specific waste management technologies as identified in the MWMS where these help drive waste management up the waste hierarchy. Land allocations to support the apportionment for municipal waste could reflect the solution that the WCA and WDA have proposed.

Development Control

• To provide advice to the procurement team, their advisers and/or the Preferred Bidder as to the suitability of the proposal, and the issues that need to be covered in any EIA and supporting statement.

• Set up some pre-application discussions to ensure better understanding of the issues that will emerge from the proposal. In the course of such discussions, proposals can be adapted to ensure that they better reflect community aspirations and that applications are complete and address all relevant issues.

• The planning officer, once the application has been received, will be responsible for gathering all the information and consultation responses together. Additional meetings may be required to discuss specific issues which have been raised during the consultation process.

• In reaching his/her recommendation, the officer will assess the proposal against policy and relevant guidance and then write a committee report with a recommendation which, if for an approval, will be subject to conditions and may be subject to a legal agreement. The officer will then present the application to members at a meeting of the relevant committee and a decision will be made by the elected members. If the application is approved, the planning certificate will be issued after the committee meeting or once the legal agreement has been signed (where applicable), but provided the proposal does not represent a departure from the Development Plan in which case it will require prior referral to and the agreement of the relevant Government Office.