Waste

Gloucestershire County Council adopted the Gloucestershire Waste Local Plan in October 2004 and the Gloucestershire Waste Core Strategy in November 2012.

The Gloucestershire Waste Core Strategy is the main plan against which all planning applications for future waste management development throughout the county must be assessed. A number of saved policies contained in the previously adopted Gloucestershire Waste Local Plan must also be considered and have weight in decision making.

In law the Gloucestershire Waste Core Strategy is described as a development plan document and is part of the development plan for Gloucestershire.

Gloucestershire County Council has also prepared a Supplementary Planning Document - Waste Minimisation in Development Projects. This document provides local guidance on how waste generated during the construction and occupation of a new development can be minimised. It also supports material resource efficiency in construction and the use of more recycled construction materials.

The Gloucestershire Waste Core Strategy; saved policies of the Waste Local Plan; and Waste Minimisation in Development Projects Supplementary Planning Document can be viewed from the tiles below.

The Gloucestershire Waste Core Strategy and Waste Local Plan are currently under review. The tile entitled ‘Emerging Waste Local Plan for Gloucestershire’ provides update information on the new plan.

A further tile has been provided for the online Policies (Proposals) Map. This illustrates geographically the policies of the Gloucestershire Waste Core Strategy and saved policies of the Waste Local Plan