NYCC held a Waste Conference in November 2009 at the Harrogate Convention Centre to congratulate themselves on progress in waste management and recycling over the last 7 years. This is despite the fact that they had the Minerals and Waste Core Strategy thrown out by the Planning Inspectorate in 2008, their flagship incineration pilot plant is in a voluntary arrangement with its creditors and the joint venture Yorwaste is in serious trouble requiring a write off of £1million in debts.

DISC members were in attendance to question progress to date and were told an announcement would be forthcoming of the new contractor in Jan/Feb 2010. This contract is the single largest and most important decision the County officers have ever had to make and will involve nearly £1 billion of expenditure over the next 25 years.

Download the minutes of our latest meeting with NYCC executive officers at the bottom of this page.

The presentation made by NYCC used a map to illustrate the concentration of landfill in the county (see below) and underlines the reasons for a preference to site the incinerator at Allerton Park due to the proximity to current traffic flows:-