1. Proposals for new waste management facilities (or for the enlargement or amended operation of existing facilities) will be permitted where they are seen to be meeting the strategic objectives set out in Policy MW4, subject to an assessment of their likely environmental impact or other harm. In determining applications for new or enlarged waste management facilities regard will be had to whether the proposed development would cause significant and unacceptable harm to any of the following:
a) environmental resources or assets;
b) the visual character of the surrounding area;
c) the amenities of occupiers of nearby property (particularly residential property or other environmentally sensitive uses such as schools, hospitals or specialist industrial or business uses such as food processing and high technology uses) in terms of visual amenity, noise, vibration, dust, windblown material, smells, litter, vermin, air, land or water or other nuisance;
d) air safety, (including the need to safeguard the airspace around Liverpool John Lennon Airport and avoid birdstrike hazard);
e) road safety and highway capacity.
2. Proposals for waste management facilities should also be compatible with any approved regeneration strategy for the area in which they are proposed to be located.
3. Proposals for waste management facilities must include facilities for the recovery of materials for re-use and recycling and / or the recovery of energy from waste.
4. Planning permissions for temporary waste management uses and facilities may be made subject to planning conditions requiring reinstatement of the site, followed by after-care, to enable the subsequent use of the site for purposes agreed with the local planning authority.
5. Proposals for new superstores, supermarkets and other appropriate large developments with their own car parks, which are acceptable in principle, will only be permitted provided that recycling facilities are designed as an integral part of the development, so as to minimise their impact on amenity and traffic circulation.
