Just published on the Pinkham Way Alliance website is a copy of the community response to the North London Waste Plan. Click here to read the submission

According to the North London Waste Authority the plan "provides the framework for waste management in the London boroughs of Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey, Islington and Waltham Forest for the next 15 years up to 2027. It identifies sites for waste management use and sets out policies for determining waste planning applications."

The plan is likely to be finalised and agreed in around on years time - following an "examination in public" in early 2012 and an inspectors report before being submitted to government next year.

The document published on the PWA website provides a rigorous critique of the draft of the North London Waste Plan - which has already been approved in principal by each of the seven boroughs. It is technical and detailed  - but it is definitely worth taking the time to read through the full text.

This part of the process - opposition to the seven borough wide plan - is a separate, but related issue to the opposition to the specific use of the Pinkham Woods site as a waste processing plant. Although in the current version of the plan Pinkham Way is identified as a potential waste management site. 

A Planning Application has been lodged with the LB Haringey planning committee for the specific construction of a waste processing plant, however the meeting looking at this is now unlikely to be before November 2011.