Waste Planning In Cheshire

Cheshire County Council is the local planning authority responsible for planning matters in connection with waste developments and, as the Waste Planning Authority, is legally obliged to produce a Waste Local Plan for the County. This will be done through a Replacement Waste Local Plan which looks at waste developments up to 2013. As a first stage in the preparation of this plan the Council published a First Deposit Draft for public consultation in May 2004. This plan identified a number of possible sites in the County with the potential to be waste disposal facilities. Amongst these is the chemicals manufacturing site at Lostock which has been identified as a possible location for a thermal treatment plant and associated recycling and materials handling facilities.

There are further stages still to be completed before the Council finalises its plans but if the Lostock site is selected for such a development the new facilities are likely to be located on the site of the old power station at Lostock which is no longer in use.

Should the Council conclude that this is the appropriate way forward for Cheshire then such facilities will be developed and operated by a professional waste management company on the former Brunner Mond land. (More information is available from Cheshire County Council at www.cheshire.gov.uk/wasteplan