Borough Level Waste Apportionment

April 2007 update
Draft document - December 2006

April 2007 - waste apportionment update

The consultation on apportionment closed on 2 March 2007. In responding, a number of consultees wanted to know what the impact would be of changing the weightings or the nature of the various criteria in the model. Jacobs Babtie have undertaken this sensitivity testing and the results are set out in the April 2007 update.

In addition, this update incorporates changes to the apportionment itself to reflect:

corrections to inaccurate wharf numbers in Barking & Dagenham, Greenwich, Havering, Newham and Westminster;
the likelihood that the Belvedere incinerator will come on stream towards the middle of the apportionment period 2005-2020;
minor changes to indicative capacity of land for waste, logistics and other industrial uses in London to reflect recent work undertaken by URS consultants on behalf of the GLA.

April 2007 - waste apportionment update PDF

December 2006 - draft minor alteration to the London Plan

In early 2006 the Government Office for London, the GLA, London Councils (the Association of London Government, as was) and the Association of London Borough Planning Officers agreed to commission an exercise to apportion tonnages of municipal and commercial/industrial waste at London borough level, as required by PPS10: Planning for Sustainable Waste Management. This was announced in a joint statement put to the London Plan draft Early Alterations EiP in June, and subsequently endorsed in the EiP Panel Report. A draft borough level apportionment was completed in early September by Jacobs Babtie for the GLA and, as a prospective draft Further Alteration to the London Plan, was subjected to a sustainability appraisal.

The sustainability appraisal found that one of the key inputs to the apportionment model – vacant and potentially available industrial land from a 2003 GLA industrial land availability study – was not sufficiently up to date to provide a reliable basis for the apportionment, particularly in light of large-scale schemes which had come forward since that date, such as the Olympic development in the Lower Lea Valley. The appraisal noted, however, that further work was underway at the GLA on industrial land release benchmarks, and that this would bring together current intelligence on industrial land in London on a more consistent and up to date basis. The appraisal therefore recommended that the apportionment model should be reiterated using new data provided at borough level.

The Mayor has accepted this advice, and gave a commitment in paragraph 4.10f of the draft Further Alterations to the London Plan that a table (Table 4A.4) showing the borough level waste apportionment would be published as a minor alteration.

The waste apportionment model has been re-run using as an input 2006 industrial land data derived from detailed map-based assessments of the industrial land baseline for boroughs in London’s North East and South East sub-regions, and desk-top assessments of the industrial land baseline for boroughs in the North, West and South West sub-regions taking into account local employment land reviews where these were available and up to date.

Jacobs Babtie’s final report detailing the waste apportionment methodology was published in December 2006. Because of the size of the full document it is also available in parts for download:

Jacobs Babtie Waste Apportionment Study PDF (7.4MB)
Jacobs Babtie Waste Apportionment Study part A PDF (1.4MB)
Jacobs Babtie Waste Apportionment Study part B PDF (1.1MB)
Jacobs Babtie Waste Apportionment Study part B appendices PDF (5.8MB)
Jacobs Babtie Waste Apportionment Study part A RTF (350kb)
Jacobs Babtie Waste Apportionment Study part B RTF (850kb)

Download the document

Note: An earlier version of the draft minor alteration was placed on this website on 22 November 2006 but was almost immediately withdrawn because errors were identified in the table of waste apportioned by London borough. The document below contains a revised apportionment table and was published by the Mayor on 6 December 2007 for a new twelve week period of public consultation.

Draft Minor Alteration: Borough Level Waste Apportionment PDF
Draft Minor Alteration: Borough Level Waste Apportionment RTF

Public consultation

This draft minor alteration to the London Plan was published for consultation and comments were invited, to be received by 2 March 2007. The Planning Inspectorate has confirmed that a twelve week consultation on this matter can be accommodated within the overall timetable for the Further Alterations to the London Plan, and that this matter can be considered at the forthcoming EiP in the summer of 2007.

Any representations made in relation to the proposed alterations to the London Plan will be made available for public inspection.

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