HC Deb 02 February 1989 vol 146 cc350-2W
Mr. Gareth Wardell

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when he intends to implement his Department's proposals to enable the site licensing authority to take into account the previous performance of an applicant for a waste disposal site licence.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

Legislation will be introduced as soon as parliamentary time permits.

Mr. Gareth Wardell

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish in theOfficial Report a full list of the waste disposal authorities in England, indicating those that have not yet completed their waste disposal plans and deposited them with his Department.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

Following is a list of waste disposal authorities in England grouped according to the current status of their disposal plans:

England

January 1989

1. Completed plans

  • Bedfordshire
  • Buckinghamshire
  • Cambridgeshire
  • Cheshire
  • Cleveland
  • Derbyshire
  • Devon
  • Dorset
  • Durham
  • Gloucestershire
  • Hereford and Worcester
  • Hertfordshire1
  • Humberside
    • 351
  • Kent
  • Norfolk1
  • Northamptonshire
  • Northumberland
  • Somerset
  • Staffordshire
  • Surrey
  • West Sussex
  • Wiltshire
  • Warwickshire
  • Total plans: 23
  • Total authorities: 23

2. Plans prepared in draft and copied to the Department

  • Avon
  • Cumbria
  • East Sussex
  • Isle of Wight
  • Lancashire1
  • Merseyside WDA
  • North Yorkshire
  • Suffolk1
  • Tyne and Wear WDJC2
    • (Gateshead MDC
    • Newcastle upon Tyne MDC
    • North Tyneside MDC
    • South Tyneside MDC
    • Sunderland MDC)
  • Total plans: 9
  • Total authorities: 13

3. Uncompleted plans

a. County Councils

  • Berkshire
  • Cornwall
  • Essex
  • Hampshire
  • Leicestershire
  • Lincolnshire
  • Nottinghamshire
  • Oxfordshire
  • Shropshire

b. London Authorities

  • East London WA
  • North London WA
  • West London WA
  • Western Riverside WA
  • City of London
  • City of Westminster
  • LB of Tower Hamlets

South East London WDJC2

  • (LB of Greenwich
  • LB of Lewisham
  • LB of Southwark)

LB of Bexley

South London WDJC2

  • (LB of Bromley
  • LB of Croydon
  • LB of Kingston upon Thames
  • LB of Merton
  • LB of Sutton)

c. Other Authorities

  • Greater Manchester WDA
  • Wigan MDC

West Yorkshire WMJC2

  • (Bradford MDC
  • Calderdale MDC
  • Kirklees MDC
  • Leeds MDC
  • Wakefield MDC)
  • Barnsley MDC
  • Doncaster MDC
  • Rotherham MDC
  • Sheffield MDC

West Midlands JC2

  • (Birmingham MDC
  • Coventry MDC
  • Dudley MDC
  • Sandwell MDC
  • Solihull MDC
  • Walsall MDC
  • Wolverhampton MDC)

  • Total Plans: 27
  • Total Authorities: 43

ABBREVIATIONS

  • LB London Borough
  • RB Royal Borough (London Borough)
  • MDC Metropolitan District Councils
  • WA Waste Authority
  • WDJC Waste Disposal Joint Committee

1 Submitted to the Department for determination under section 2(5) of the Control of Pollution Act 1974.

2 In these metropolitan areas the joint committee is required to produce a plan covering its constituent authorities (these are shown in parentheses).