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The London Plan July 2011 – RTF version
5.82 It is envisaged that land in strategic industrial locations will provide the
major opportunities for locating waste treatment facilities (see Annex 3).
Boroughs should also look to locally significant industrial sites and existing
waste management sites. Existing waste management sites (including
safeguarded wharves with waste use or potential) should be clearly identified
and safeguarded for waste use. Suitable brownfield sites and contaminated
land elsewhere may also provide opportunities.
5.83 Allocations will need to balance the benefits of smaller, local sites against
the overall demand for land for waste and for a range of other activities in a
situation in which there are severe limitations of land supply, and against
the benefits of co-locating a range of facilities together in a smaller number
of larger sites. The Mayor will work with boroughs and waste authorities
to identify opportunities for introducing new waste capacity, including
strategically important sites for waste management and treatment, and
resource recovery parks/consolidation centres, where recycling, recovery
and manufacturing activities can co-locate.
5.84 For waste that cannot be recycled or composted (including anaerobic
digestion), the Mayor has a preference for advanced conversion waste
processing technologies such as gasification and pyrolysis but is keen that
proposals for new facilities are evaluated by carbon outcome (end-to-end) to
ensure the best possible environmental impact.
5.85 The Mayor wants to develop a minimum greenhouse gas performance for
technologies recovering energy from non-recyclable waste. All waste
treatment technologies will need to meet this level, or demonstrate they can
practically meet it in the future in order to gain Mayoral support. Work is
underway with local authorities to agree a common tool for measuring and
determining a minimum greenhouse gas performance for the treatment of
non-recyclable waste. It is envisaged the minimum greenhouse gas
performance will need to achieve at least a positive carbon outcome,
whereby the direct emissions from the technology are offset by emissions
savings from the generation of energy in the form of heat, electricity and
transport fuel. This would, for example, tend to rule out new mass burn
incineration facilities of mixed waste generating electricity only, but may
allow combustion of biomass waste where both heat and power generated
are used. This approach supports anaerobic digestion or gasification
technologies able to achieve high efficiencies particularly when linked with
gas engines and hydrogen fuel cells.
5.86 Waste processing facilities, including materials recycling facilities and
depots, inert waste recycling plants, composting facilities, waste treatment
and energy recovery facilities, and reprocessing of recyclables, should be well
designed. They need not be bad neighbours and could be a source of new
products and new jobs. They should be developed and designed in
consultation with local communities, taking account of health and safety
within the facility, the site and adjoining neighbourhoods. Energy recovery
should be carried out through advanced conversion techniques, ie
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