Agenda and draft minutes

No apologies for absence were received.

Members and Officers are requested to give notice of any personal or prejudicial interest and the nature of that interest, relating to any item on the agenda in accordance with the relevant Code of Conduct.

No declarations of interest were received.

Minutes of the meeting held on 10 August 2011

RESOLVED:

That the Minutes of the meeting of the Committee held on 10 August 2011 be confirmed as a correct record.

Report of the Director of Built Environment attached. This report was referred by the Cabinet on 13 October 2011 to this Committee for determination.

The Director of Built Environment will circulate a supplementary report at the meeting.

Further to Minute No. 45 of the meeting of the Cabinet held on 13 October 2011, the Committee considered the report of the Director of Built Environment on the results of public consultation on the Merseyside and Halton Joint Waste Development Plan Document Preferred Options 2 (New Sites Consultation) Report which was undertaken between May and June 2011.

The report also sought approval to a final six-week consultation at the end of 2011 on the document and to the submission of the document to the Secretary of State prior to the formal adoption of the document by each of the Merseyside District Councils in late 2012.

The Director reported on the historical context to the production of the document and upon the decisions taken by the other Merseyside  District Councils on the document.

This was a Key Decision and was included in the Council’s Forward Plan of Key Decisions.

RESOLVED:            That

1)         the results of consultation on the Waste Development Plan Document Preferred Options 2 (New Sites Consultation) Report be noted;

2)         the Council be recommended to approve the Publication Document for the final six-week public consultation commencing late in 2011 followed by Submission to the Secretary of State subject to:

            (a)   the removal of any reference to Atlantic Park within the Waste Development Plan Document; and

            (b)   clarification being made in the Waste Development Plan Document that the proposed waste uses for the site F3 – Site North of Farriers Way would be restricted to enclosed reprocessing activities and/or primary treatment facilities such as a Materials Recycling Facility or a Mechanical Biological Treatment plant and for all activities to be contained within purpose-built, fully enclosed building(s). Open air uses that store wastes outside would not be suitable at this location.

3)         the Council be recommended to grant delegated authority to District officers within the Waste DPD Steering Group to make the necessary typographical  changes to the Publication Document prior to submission of the Waste DPD and for any more substantial changes to be reported to Members through the appropriate scheme of delegation prior to Submission; and

4)         the Council be recommended to approve the spatial distribution of one sub-regional site per district.