Definition of Waste Treatment Projects

For the purpose of this policy waste treatment projects include waste separation, recycling, transfer, composting, the treatment and transfer of special waste, the thermal treatment of waste including incineration and relatively new techniques such as pyrolysis, gasification, and fluidised bed combustion and other energy recovery facilities such as anaerobic digestion. Proposals for the development of waste water treatment works, including extensions to existing facilities are also considered under this policy as are planning applications for the recycling of construction and demolition waste. As a consequence this policy provides criteria for the determination of planning applications for civic amenity sites, waste transfer stations, the various types of recycling facility, scrap-yards, multi-stream separation and material recovery facilities, composting facilities, waste water treatment works, incineration and other thermal treatment/energy recovery facilities.