Implementing new EU environmental law: the short life of the UK Site Waste Management Plan Regulations

David Shiers, Joe Weston, Elizabeth Wilson, John Glasson and Laura Deller

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2014, vol. 57, issue 7, 1003-1022

Abstract: Using an analytical framework based on current implementation theory, this research examines the transposition of the EU Waste Framework Directive into UK law and local government development control procedures. The study which forms the basis of this paper was commissioned by the UK Government to evaluate the effectiveness of the construction Waste Management Plans introduced as a legal requirement in 2008. It was found that its implementation had largely failed and that these new laws had been ineffective. Subsequently, in March 2012 the UK Government announced its intention to withdraw these Regulations. In the context of current deregulatory pressures, but with the continuing need to minimise construction waste, this research concludes that more attention should be paid by central government to their current 'top-down' implementation procedures in order to better roll-out new environmental legislation in the future.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2013.776952

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