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More sustainable waste planning

[Posted: 27 October 2009]

CAG is currently running the ‘engagement’ aspects of three large-scale waste planning processes - in North, South and West London. In each case a consortia of councils is developing a waste strategy to improve the way their boroughs deal with waste in future - specifically to deal with the waste stream more sustainably and minimise landfill. 

In South London, for example, we have just finished running and reporting back on four ‘drop in’ sessions in Merton, Croydon, Sutton and Kingston where residents and other stakeholders looked at the proposed waste plan context, its policies and the considerable number of sites that have been identified as possible waste sites in future.

Stakeholders were offered a number of different ways to give their feedback, including leaving ‘stick on’ notes on the policies and sites information panels, filling in a questionnaire and making video messages for the councils in a video booth. This consultation process is the next stage after initial workshop style consultations run by CAG on “Issues and Options” last year. In North London, meanwhile, seven local authorities, Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey, Islington and Waltham Forest have joined forces to prepare the North London Waste Plan.

In North London we are also currently running a series of seven consultation sessions in each of these boroughs to consult with people on the sites and policies for the plan. Similarly, in West London, a substantial round of consultation on possible waste sites will get underway in the next few months.

For more about any of these processes or our waste planning/consultation expertise more generally please contact Susan Parham on 020 7704 0018 or at sp@cagconsult.co.uk, or Gerard Couper on 01364 653003 or at gc@cagconsult.co.uk.