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Site waste management plan for a London construction project
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SWMP

What a Site Waste Management Plan Actually Is

A site waste management plan (SWMP) sets out, before work starts, what waste a project will produce, how each material will be handled, and what actually happened once the job is finished. It is a working document, not a form: the second half only gets filled in as collections take place.

The statutory requirement in England was revoked in 2013, so for most London projects a SWMP is no longer a legal obligation. It has not gone away, though – it has moved into contracts. Principal contractors ask for one, planning conditions on larger schemes require one, and BREEAM credits depend on it. The duty of care that sits underneath it never went anywhere at all.

We do not sell the document. We supply the thing that makes it credible: real weights, by material stream, per collection, with the transfer notes behind them. If you want the plan built and maintained from that data as the job runs, that is part of our construction site waste management service – call 08 00 599 99 96 and tell us the project.

Who needs it

Who Asks for One in London

Principal contractors – as a condition of subcontract, usually with a diversion-from-landfill target attached.

Planning conditions – common on larger London schemes, often tied to a demolition or construction management plan.

BREEAM assessors – Wst 01 credits need pre-set targets and evidenced outcomes.

Clients with reporting duties – public bodies, listed companies and anyone reporting on scope 3 emissions.

Three stages

What Goes Into the Plan

  1. 1

    Before work starts

    • Project, client and principal contractor
    • Who owns the plan on site
    • Expected waste types and rough quantities by stream
    • Reduction and reuse decisions made at design stage
    • A diversion-from-landfill target, stated as a number
  2. 2

    While the job runs

    • Each collection: date, carrier, destination site
    • Weight per stream, not per skip
    • Waste transfer notes and carrier licence details
    • Deviations from the forecast, with the reason
    • Any hazardous waste, with consignment notes
  3. 3

    At completion

    • Actual tonnages against forecast
    • Recovery and recycling rate achieved
    • What went to landfill and why
    • Cost comparison against the estimate
    • Lessons for the next project on the same framework
Where plans fail

The Part That Usually Goes Wrong

Most plans fail on the same thing: the forecast is written carefully and the actuals are never captured. Three months later somebody is reconstructing tonnages from invoices, and a skip invoice does not tell you what was in the skip.

Two decisions on site fix that almost entirely. Separate the streams from day one, so each collection has one material and a real weight against it – that is what on-site containers are for. And keep the inert stream genuinely clean: broken concrete, brick and hardcore with no timber or packaging in them go for crushing into recycled aggregate, which is both the cheapest disposal route and the largest single contributor to your diversion figure. See rubble and hardcore collection for how that stream is handled.

Plasterboard is the other one worth planning for. Gypsum cannot go to landfill mixed with biodegradable waste, so it needs its own container and its own line in the plan from the start – retro-fitting that halfway through a fit-out is expensive. See plasterboard collection.

Duty of Care Still Applies

Whether or not you keep a SWMP, the waste producer’s duty of care under the Environmental Protection Act does not lapse. In practice that means three things on every London site:

Check the carrier. Verify the licence on the Environment Agency public register before the first collection.

Describe the waste properly. A vague description on a transfer note is itself a breach.

Keep the notes for two years. Consignment notes for hazardous waste, three.

FAQ

Site Waste Management Plan FAQ

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Not in England since the 2008 regulations were revoked in 2013. It is still commonly required by contract, by planning conditions on larger schemes, and by BREEAM. The underlying duty of care on waste is separate and always applies.

The old threshold was £300,000. Today it depends on who is asking: a £50,000 fit-out for a corporate client may need one, while a larger private job may not. If a plan is in your contract or planning conditions, that is your answer.

Yes. We report weight per collection broken down by stream, with the transfer note and destination facility for each one, so the completion section of the plan is built from measured figures rather than estimates.

It depends far more on segregation than on the contractor. Demolition and groundworks, where most of the weight is inert, can reach very high diversion because crushed concrete has a genuine onward market. A fit-out with mixed light waste is harder. Set the target after you know the material mix, not before.

Waste transfer notes for two years, hazardous waste consignment notes for three. Keep them with the plan rather than in the accounts file – when the Environment Agency or a client auditor asks, they will want to see them together.

No – different document, different audience. An event waste plan is written for a council licensing team and covers a few days of public-facing waste. A construction SWMP runs the length of a build and is written for the contractor and client. For events, see our event waste management plan guidance.
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