PPS 11 Planning and Waste Management·Page 9·1.8
Strategic Planning Guideline for Waste Management (SPG - ENV 5.4)
Sets guidelines for developing waste management policy, locating treatment and disposal facilities through partnership with industry, establishing recycling networks, and siting facilities on key sites near major urban centres while minimising environmental impacts.
The RDS promotes the development of a Waste Management Strategy for Northern Ireland and sets the following guidelines for the development of policy for waste management, for the location of waste treatment and for waste disposal facilities: Strategic Planning Guideline; Environment 5.4 (SPG - ENV 5.4) Promote the Waste Management Strategy for Northern Ireland:
- work in partnership with industry to create an economy based on sustainable waste management practices, supporting and influencing opportunities for reducing the amount of waste generated;
- provide an extensive network of recycling, recovery and secondary materials manufacturing facilities, and develop an integrated regional network of a limited number of landfill sites, closely related to the key transport corridors to minimise environmental impacts on residential neighbourhoods and tranquil rural areas; and
- locate waste treatment facilities on a limited number of key sites conveniently related to the major centres of urban waste production.
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