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SEPA invite you to respond to a consultation on the waste treatment proposals being considered by North and South Lanarkshire Councils. The two councils have been working in partnership to develop optimised performance targets for the recycling and composting of municipal wastes along with proposals for the management of residual wastes (that which is remaining after all practicable effort to extract recyclable and compostable material from the household waste stream). It is these proposals and their potential impacts that we would like your opinions on.
On review of the municipal waste management proposals, SEPA noted that the options being put forward by the Lanarkshire authorities would contribute to a change of the published Best Practicable Environmental Option (BPEO) as set out in Chapter 3 of the Glasgow and Clyde Valley Area Waste Plan. This being the case, a BPEO Review has been carried out to ensure that any proposals submitted to the Scottish Executive for funding, represent the Best Practicable Environmental Option (BPEO) for the area (taking into account environmental, social and economic impacts). Any modification to Section 3 of the Glasgow and Clyde Valley Area Waste Plan would require the undertaking of a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA). The full extent of a modification to the Area Waste Plan cannot, however, be fully established until the remaining Glasgow and Clyde Valley local authorities complete the profiling of their residual waste options. To ensure that all aspects of any change to the Area Waste Plan under a full assessment of environmental impacts as required under SEA, the Lanarkshires municipal waste proposals have gone through an interim SEA appraisal. The findings of this interim appraisal will contribute to a full SEA of the Glasgow & Clyde Valley Area Waste Plan as and when all options for the remaining local authorities within the waste strategy area have been established.
SEPA, as custodians of the Area Waste Plan, have led the BPEO and interim SEA review of the Lanarkshires options with the support of an assessment group consisting of key stakeholder representatives. In maintaining the spirit of open and transparent decision making, a public consultation is being held to seek views on the findings of the BPEO and SEA Review of the Lanarkshires proposals. Once local stakeholder views have been considered, a consultation report and summary of findings and recommendations will be published on the SEPA web site.
We would welcome your views and a number of questions have been set out in the consultation pack. As well as addressing these questions, please include any other comments which you feel would support the decision making process to identify the best option for municipal waste in the Lanarkshires. Where possible, it would be beneficial to provide supporting evidence to any representations, especially in relation to the assessment scorings. The Consultation, which is comprised of a BPEO Review Paper and SEA Interim Environmental Report, can be viewed through the links below:
If you are having problems downloading these documents, hard copies are available on request by emailing us. Hard copies are also available at the SEPA offices in Glasgow and East Kilbride.
The consultation period is running from Monday 23rd July 2007 to Monday 3rd September 2007.
Please send your consultation response to:
FREEPOST
Area Waste Plan Consultation Response
SEPA Glasgow Office
LAW House
West of Scotland Science Park
Todd Campus
Maryhill Road
G20 0XA
Or email us.
If you have any queries on this issue, please do not hesitate to contact Scott Armstrong or Maureen McEwan on 0141 945 6350
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