Previous Public Consultation

 (Click on left, for 'previous consultation' document, hosted on Harrow web site.)

KEY ISSUE: 

"Differing views with respect to incineration, but general support for energy from waste schemes."

How this issue has been addressed in the Draft Plan:

"The Draft Plan seeks to promote the management of waste inline with the waste hierarchy. As outlined in Policy 3, and in line with the London Plan, advanced energy from waste technologies such as gasification, pyrolysis and anaerobic digestion will be considered in preference to conventional incineration. The policy requires all waste facilities where practicable to contribute to combined heat and power or other forms of decentralised energy.

"Conventional incineration is defined as the controlled burning of waste in the presence of air to achieve complete combustion. Therefore, there is a difference between conventional incineration and other forms of incineration/advanced thermal treatment which recover energy from waste. Policy 3 says that energy from waste facilities will only be considered where it can be demonstrated that the facilities are a recovery facility as defined by the Waste Framework Directive. The Directive requires recovery facilities to meet minimum standards of energy efficiency and also covers gasification and pyrolysis in this category."

 [We say: this acquiescence in 'new-style' incineration is what this web site is prepared to campaign against.]