Waste Development Framework (WDF)

Kent County Council is preparing a Waste Development Framework (WDF), which will replace the adopted Waste Local Plan 1998 (WLP). This will decide the location of sites for waste management uses within the Kent County Council area (excluding Medway). It will cover the period to 2021 and will deal with household, commercial and industrial, and construction and demolition wastes.

In its first tranche of DPDs KCC will produce a:

• Core strategy DPD - The core strategy sets out the strategic vision and aims of the authority for waste management facilities.
• Site allocations DPD - This DPD allocates sites for waste management facilities.
• Development control policies DPD - This DPD sets out the development control policies against which applications for waste management facilities should be assessed.
• The hazardous waste DPD will be prepared later.

Stages of the process

DPDs have to undergo three stages of consultation - Issues and Options, Preferred Options and Submission, followed by an Examination in Public, before they can be adopted by the authority. Copies of the documents and consultation information for the first stages of the Kent WDF are available from the web links below:

• Issues and options - This consultation took place in September-October 2005.
• Spatial options - This consultation occurred in July-October 2006.

The future stages and timetable of the programme, including the DPDs to be taken forward, will be in accordance with a revised Minerals and Waste Development Scheme currently in preparation.

Once confirmed, all details of the new scheme will be published on the MWDF web pages

Technical background

Documents include the "Needs Assessment" of 2004 which assesses future growth in waste, the existing capacity to dispose of it and the need for new waste processing and landfill in the future, for which the WDF must make provision.

Other background papers

For more details regarding the timetable proposed by KCC and the documents to be produced please access the Minerals and Waste Development Scheme.