Article: Local waste plan Article Body Barnsley Council is a unitary council and as such does not produce a separate waste plan. Policies and allocations with regard to waste can be found in the Unitary Development Plan (UDP) which is the borough's statutory development plan. The UDP will eventually be replaced by the Local Development Framework (LDF). Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham councils are working together to prepare the Joint Waste Plan DPD, which will be a core strategy in its own right, and will identify potential strategic sites for facilities to manage commercial, municipal and industrial waste to serve the needs of those council areas. It should be noted that this joint DPD will to some extent run in advance of the core strategies. However it will be treated as a core strategy for waste issues, and it is considered that given the strategic nature of the DPD a chain of conformity can be ensured directly to National Policy (PPS10) and Regional Policy (Yorkshire and Humber RSS), as well as to relevant local documents (for example, the Municipal Waste Strategies which will be in place in 2008). Barnsley's Core Strategy is the planning strategy that will guide the scale and location of new development and the use of land in Barnsley. Doncaster and Rotherham are also preparing separate core strategies within their areas. The core strategy of each council will sit side by side with the Joint Waste Plan, setting the spatial strategy and policy context for all issues except waste and recycling.