What we're trying to achieve

[3.29.01] We want to secure a more sustainable and efficient approach to resource use and management. Our aim is to ensure that waste generated from new development is managed effectively and in accordance with the intentions of the waste hierarchy, to avoid its adverse effect on human health and the environment.

Policy 29: Waste management

We want to ensure the amount of waste produced as a consequence of new development is managed efficiently and effectively and is as high up the waste hierarchy as feasible.

We will support new waste development where it:

  • is of a scale and type appropriate to its location;
  • manages and accommodates waste arising from the immediate area;
  • provides opportunities to diversify the local economy; and
  • does not have adverse impacts on residential amenity.

We will support development on previously developed land which minimises construction and demolition waste.

We will not support new, or extensions to, landfill sites for waste disposal.

The exception being the use of inert waste for agricultural land enhancement, such as land improvement, business enhancement and biodiversity.

We will not support a geological disposal facility for radioactive waste in or under the Lake District National Park.

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