In which local authority areas there are outline proposals to site thermal waste treatment facilities.

A number of groups of local authoritiessubmitted Strategic Outline Cases which included suggested infrastructurefor treating residual municipal waste. A copy of these Strategic Outline Case,with certain commercially sensitive information removed, can be found on the ScottishExecutive website at:
http://search.scotland.gov.uk/search/pages/search/basic.asp?QuerySubmit=true&Paging=true&Page=1&QueryText=strategic+outline+cases.
Following consideration of these StrategicOutline Cases, and draft Outline Business Cases being prepared by theLanarkshire authorities and the Lothian and Borders authorities, I have recentlywritten to all local authorities in Scotland outlining the way ahead on both recyclingand on infrastructure to treat residual waste.
In a number of cases, I have askedlocal authorities to submit Outline Business Cases on residual waste infrastructure.These Outline Business Cases will have to be approved by the Scottishministers ensuring they are in line with our objectives on waste prevention, recyclingand composting, value for money, affordability and deliverability.
The Outline Business Casesshould also contain a value for money assessment of alternative forms of procurement.Subject to the conclusions of these assessments, out expectation is that local authoritieswill issue output based tenders. These will outline the amount of waste authoritieswish to divert away from landfill and seek bids and proposals from contractors onhow to achieve this objective. Proposals from contractors may include thermal treatmentplants.
In addition, developers are, of course, free to put forward theirown proposals for thermal treatment plants.