Issue - meetings

To consider a report by the Planning Policy Manager on proposals for Minerals and Waste Planning.

Requested the Planning Policy Manager to convey to  Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council that reference should be made in the Plan to the implications of the transport of waste on local highways, particularly when this involves minor roads and to express concerns over the continued tipping of waste in the County from London and the desirability for the capital to establish the necessary processes to minimise waste generation and dispose of the waste more locally.

(See Minute No. 107 for Members’ interests).

By means of a report by the Planning Policy Manager (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) the Cabinet were acquainted with proposals published by Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council for minerals and waste planning to 2021.

In discussing the implications of the proposals for Huntingdonshire and the contents of a suggested response, Executive Councillors referred to transport issues impacting on the area when moving waste and the need to minimise the use of local minor roads by waste landfill traffic.  Having expressed concern over the continued absorption of waste in the County from the London area and the requisite for the appropriate body to establish the necessary processes to minimise and manage this waste, the Cabinet

RESOLVED

  that the Planning Policy Manager be authorised to convey to Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council the observations contained in Appendix 1 to the report now submitted, together with the District Council’s concerns about issues associated with transportation and the disposal of waste from Greater London within Cambridgeshire.