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MONITORING AND IMPLEMENTATION
52 A partnership between local authorities (with waste managers and planners working across internal departmental boundaries), the public, industry and statutory consultees, such as SEPA, can raise awareness of sustainable waste management and change behaviours. This SPP places particular emphasis on a plan-led approach to waste management, community engagement, the importance of reaching statutory targets on time and the role planning authorities need to play to further the aim of sustainable waste management.
53 While waste management continues to challenge perceptions about environmental and community impact, they are not always based on fact. The industry is engaging with rather than just consulting communities, bringing positive results in policy implementation and good neighbour relations. Good publicity about local facilities alerts people to opportunities and the changes underway. A consolidated industry working to the public sector and handling private sector waste streams is emerging. The industry however relies upon the planning system to accommodate the necessary infrastructure to support the Executive's policies.
54 To monitor progress in successfully delivering on SPPs, the Executive intends to introduce revisions to the way in which planning statistics are gathered in line with the changes that emerge from the Planning etc (Scotland) Act. Scottish Ministers will introduce a new system for monitoring progress on a range of fronts, likely to include development plans and the processing of planning applications for different types of development such as waste installations. They will implement the policies of this SPP in their statutory functions to approve development plans or in making determinations on planning applications notified to them and called in under the present system and through engagement on proposals for planning reform.
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