Have Your Say on the East London Joint Waste Plan

From Monday, 19 May to Monday, 30 June 2025, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Newham, and Redbridge will be consulting on the ‘proposed submission East London Joint Waste Plan’, setting out how to manage waste in East London until 2041.

The Plan outlines how waste can be managed sustainably in East London. It will ensure that there is enough capacity to manage waste and that waste facilities are located in the right areas to reduce the impact on local communities and the natural environment. The Plan also includes policies on how developers should consider the management of waste during demolition and construction of buildings and when a development is occupied.

The Plan helps the East London boroughs make decisions such as:

• Ensuring waste sites are well designed to minimise environmental impacts and avoid disruptions to local communities
• Protecting existing waste sites, including those that help make sure waste is diverted from landfill wherever possible
• Releasing existing waste sites from safeguarding where they are poorly located, underutilised, or in conflict with the boroughs' respective Local Plans.

The East London Joint Waste Plan will seek to significantly reduce waste production overall in East London. It will keep materials in use as long as possible before they are re-used or recycled, reducing the amount of waste that goes to landfills. The Plan also supports developments that work towards net zero and plans for effective waste storage, including recyclable materials and food waste.

The Plan also includes policies to help meet East London’s household recycling target of 35-50% by 2030.

Visit the consultation website to submit comments and view the East London Joint Waste Plan and its supporting documents. The consultation page is hosted on Havering’s citizen space consultation hub on behalf of the east London boroughs.

For queries, please email eljointwasteplan@havering.gov.uk

The consultation closes at 11:59pm on Monday, 30 June 2025.