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DEFRA has issued guidance on the definition of waste. This guidance is aimed at businesses and other organisations which take decisions on a day-to-day basis about whether something is or is not waste; to help ensure that the right decision is taken in more difficult cases.

The guidance can be found at:

defra.gov.uk/publications/2012/08/20/pb13813-legal-def-waste/


Outline plans to build up to 5,000 homes and 300,000 square metres of commercial space on the site of a former airfield in Cambridgeshire have been submitted to Huntingdonshire District Council.. Developer Urban & Civic is seeking approval for the development at Alconbury Weald. Urban & Civic’s latest proposals also include the construction of three primary schools and a possible further education complex.

The CPRE are claiming that developments planned for England\'s green belt over the next 20 years will amount to an area equivalent to a town the size of Slough. The Group has published a report at the same time as rumours spread through Whitehall that the Government, in particular the Chancellor, are looking at another dilution of the planning system which they believe is a brake to economic growth. One of these is a relaxation of green belt controls, just a year after they had to back track in the face of massive opposition to such proposals in the draft NPPF from organisations such as the National Trust.

CPRE said new national planning policies requiring local authorities to allocate more than five years worth of building land for new housing mean that "in many cases" planning inspectors were "putting pressure on local authorities to allow building in the green belt to meet this requirement".

The CPRE article with a link to the briefing and maps can be seen at

cpre.org.uk/media-centre/latest-news-releases/item/3019-government-needs-to-honour-pledge-to-protect-the-green-belt