Emerging Waste Local Plan for Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire County Council are preparing a new countywide waste local plan. It will set out a comprehensive land-use strategy for managing Gloucestershire’s waste into the next decade and will replace both the adopted Gloucestershire Waste Core Strategy and saved policies of the previously adopted Waste Local Plan.

The new waste plan must look at how waste can be reduced, and where it is unavoidable, how more of it can be turned into a valuable resource. The future management of waste in the county must be efficient and effective; achieved without polluting our environment; and be part of the solution, and not the cause of further climate change impacts.

The new waste plan must consider all types of waste present in Gloucestershire that needs to be managed – householder waste; construction and demolition waste; waste generated by businesses and agriculture; the waste water system; and waste requiring special treatment such as low-level radioactive and hazardous waste materials.

Over the coming years the County Council will be publishing numerous plan-making documents. The aim is to update waste planning evidence; and to stimulate interest, ideas and debate across different stakeholders engaged in the future management of waste throughout the county. All documents that feed into the preparation of the new Waste Local Plan for Gloucestershire, can be accessed via the Evidence page.

The current Gloucestershire Minerals and Waste Development Scheme (MWDS) sets out plan-making work programme for the County Council to the end of March 2025. It includes the milestones for the preparation of the Waste Local Plan for Gloucestershire.