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Hectares of brownfield land
	1998	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Barking and Dagenham	33	254	252	—	241	90	326
Barnet	71	123	124	124	133	135	135
Bexley	31	16	34	46	46	46	35
Brent	48	—	70	56	99	77	104
Bromley	22	—	13	—	21	—	20
Camden	75	73	80	—	87	51	88
City of London	2	22	—	7	7	—	10
City of Westminster	42	—	37	30	28	28	60
Croydon	—	76	60	111	96	95	95
Ealing	49	—	78	185	184	174	170
Enfield	98	—	—	155	125	95	80
Greenwich	235	217	243	161	156	153	149
Hackney	25	14	24	16	20	19	19
Hammersmith and Fulham	36	44	50	49	28	53	49
Haringey	32	40	48	—	85	—	217
Harrow	39	79	66	62	39	46	34
Havering	88	88	159	124	113	113	87
Hillingdon	25	182	162	160	89	94	54
Hounslow	57	184	—	195	140	145	107
Islington	26	50	—	82	65	60	59
Kensington and Chelsea	8	—	11	—	10	17	7
Kingston-upon-Thames	28	19	—	52	52	58	19
Lambeth	16	—	—	9	10	—	58
Lewisham	12	59	57	51	48	49	46
Merton	16	—	77	66	71	71	—
Newham	478	479	264	—	384	376	478
Redbridge	—	198	207	176	78	50	101
Richmond-upon-Thames	38	—	49	—	58	—	26
Southwark	—	33	25	—	99	99	110
Sutton	90	—	33	31	13	18	21
Tower Hamlets	—	64	64	—	51	42	41
Waltham Forest	30	39	30	35	28	28	30
Wandsworth	17	58	42	48	33	40	59

Landfill

Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what statutory obligations require local authorities to identify new sites for landfill. [185228]

Mr. Iain Wright: There is a particular obligation arising from the waste management plan(s) required by the Waste Framework Directive⁽¹⁾ relating to waste disposal sites and installations (which can include landfill sites). Case-law from the European Court of Justice⁽²⁾ has established that the management plan(s)

“must include either a geographical map specifying the exact location of waste disposal sites or location criteria which are sufficiently precise to enable the competent authority responsible for issuing a permit”⁽³⁾

to

“determine whether the site or installation in question falls within the management framework provided by the plan”.

In England, the tiered system of waste planning satisfies this requirement. The tiered system includes at the national level Waste Strategy 2007 (and its Annexes) and Planning Policy Statement 10 Planning for Sustainable Waste Management (PPS10); at the regional level, regional spatial strategies; and, at the
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local level, development plan documents and any local policies which have been ‘saved’ during the transitional period between the old system of unitary development plans, structure plans and local plans and the new system of local development documents. PPS10 provides that local planning authorities should, among other things, identify in development plan documents sites and areas suitable for new or enhanced waste management facilities for the waste management needs of their areas.

Local planning authorities in England had an obligation under the Waste Management Licensing Regulations 1994 to produce detailed policies in respect of suitable disposal sites or installations for waste management purposes when producing unitary development plans, structure plans and local plans (which continues to apply in relation to saved policies). The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2007, which will come into force on 6 April 2008, will replace the Waste Management Licensing Regulations 1994. Under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2007, local authorities will be required to implement national waste policies and strategies such as Waste Strategy 2007 and PPS10 when preparing and maintaining local development documents.

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