§ Mr. GrahamTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many appeals against refusals of planning permission for private waste disposal sites he has upheld in the last six years.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonFive.
§ Mr. GrahamTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many green belt sites have been used for waste disposal sites in the last six years.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonSix planning permissions have been given.
§ Mr. GrahamTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) if he will list all Scottish district councils' waste disposal sites;
(2) if he will list all the private waste disposal sites in Scotland;
(3) if he will list the privately owned incinerators for waste disposal in Scotland;
62W(4) if he will list the publicly owned incinerators for waste disposal in Scotland.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonThe district and islands councils as waste disposal authorities maintain public registers which provide up-to-date information on waste disposal activities in Scotland and enable the authorities to answer specific inquiries about particular activities.
There are about 263 district and islands council waste disposal sites and 516 private waste disposal sites in Scotland of which 65 council sites and 190 private sites have closed or are not active. Included in the total number of sites are eight publicly owned incinerators and 11 private incinerators.
A summary of the number of waste disposal sites, which include those with incinerators, by waste disposal authority is given in the following table.
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Waste Disposal Authority Number of Public Sites Number of Private Sites (Number of incinerators included shown in brackets) Berwickshire DC 1 2 Ettrick and Lauderdalc DC 2 3 Roxburgh DC 3 0 Tweeddale DC 2 0 Clackmannan DC 12 8 Falkirk DC 4 227 Stirling DC 1 7 Annandale and Eskdale DC 3 24 Nithsdale DC 3 4 Stewartry DC 1 12 Wigtown DC 3 8 Dunfermline DC 7 19 Kirkaldy DC 4 18 North East Fife DC 5 110 Aberdeen DC 19 17 Banff and Buchan DC 21 13 Gordon DC 3 13 Kincardine and Deeside DC 5 11 Moray DC 11 15 Badenoch and Strathspey DC 3 0 Caithness DC 2 6 Inverness DC 2 12 Lochaber DC 5 5 Nairn DC 0 0 Ross and Cromarty DC 4 4 Skye and Lochalsh DC 3 0 Sutherland DC 10 0 East Lothian DC 4 13 Edinburgh DC 7 24 Midlothian DC 3 16 West Midlothian DC 6 26 Argyll and Bute DC 0 2 Bearsden and Milngavie DC 0 0 Clydebank DC 0 3 Clydesdale DC 6 4 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth DC 4 9 Cumnock and Doon DC 2 4 Cunninghame DC 13 118 Dumbarton DC 3 7 East Kilbride DC 3 6 Eastwood DC 0 6 Glasgow DC 213 36 Hamilton DC 4 9 Inverclyde DC 6 6 Kilmarnock and Louden DC 3 4 Kyle and Carrick DC 6 1 Monklands DC 3 10 Motherwell DC 1 15 Renfrew DC 16 29 Strathkelvin DC 3 16 Angus DC 2 116 Dundee DC 14 8 Perth and Kinross DC 9 21 Orkney IC 119 12 Shetland IC 14 27
Waste Disposal Authority Number of Public Sites Number of Private Sites (Number of incinerators included shown in brackets) Western Isles IC 10 0 263 516
§ Mr. GrahamTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what information he has on how many applications there are relating to land which is at present in green belt areas for waste disposal sites.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonI have no information about the number of applications currently before planning authorities. My right hon. and learned Friend currently has five applications before him.
§ Mr. GrahamTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what information he has on how many planning applications for waste disposal sites have been turned down by Scottish local authorities in the last six years.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonI do not have information on the number of applications that have been turned down by Scottish local authorities over the last six years. There have been 23 appeals against refusal of planning permission made to my right hon. and learned Friend since 1 July 1983 involving waste disposal sites.