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Permalink Reply by karl brown on June 26, 2015 at 13:19

Stephen refers in his letter to the latest version of the North London Waste Plan (NLWP). The draft version of this, currently being reviewed by Councils prior to public consultation, highlights existing waste capacity in the North London sub-region, ie us,  of 3.7 million tonnes. It also highlights the waste generated in our North London sub-region as being 2.4 million tonnes. You would perhaps expect that this 50%+ capacity headroom to be adequate. Even worse for this story is that under the London-wide net self sufficiency requirement, the GLA Apportionment, our sub region is tasked with managing only something like 85% of our waste to ensure the London Region's overall targeted needs are satisfied, ie not the full 2.4 million tonnes. And the current capacity figure is before the incremental capacity now being requested at Edmonton (up a further 150,000 tonnes pa on top of the 3.7 million.)

Oh, and before any plans for Pinkham Way.

It's a complex area but sometimes a simple picture can make you stop and think.

A summary of my own input to the current Edmonton consultation is attached. I'm not convinced about that part of the overall waste picture either.

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• Response to Phase 2 Edmonton Consultation - Cover Only.pdf, 194 KB

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