South-East England Aggregates Monitoring 2016
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South-East England Aggregates Monitoring 2016 South East England Aggregates Working Party Report SEEAWP 17/04 December 2017 This page is intentionally blank Contents Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................ 1 Scope of this Report ................................................................................................................................ 4 Planning Policy and Guidance ................................................................................................................ 6 Aggregates – Sales, Consumption, Imports and Exports ....................................................................... 6 Quarries................................................................................................................................................... 7 Wharves .................................................................................................................................................. 9 Rail Depots ............................................................................................................................................ 10 Secondary and Recycled Material ........................................................................................................ 10 Quarry and Infrastructure Capacity ....................................................................................................... 10 Environment .......................................................................................................................................... 11 Minerals Plans and Planning Applications ............................................................................................ 11 South East England Aggregate Assessment ........................................................................................ 12 Tables Table 1: Regional sales and consumption of land-won and marine aggregates, 2001-2014 (Thousand tonnes) .................................................................................................................................................. 14 Table 2: Regional exports and imports of land-won and marine won aggregate 2014 (Thousand tonnes) .................................................................................................................................................. 15 Table 3: Total aggregate supply in South East England, 2007-2016 (Thousand tonnes) .................... 16 Table 4: Sub-regional sales, permissions, reserves of land-won sand and gravel, 2016 (Thousand tonnes) .................................................................................................................................................. 17 Table 5: Regional sales, permissions, reserves of land-won sand and gravel, 2007-2016 (Thousand tonnes) .................................................................................................................................................. 18 Table 6: Sub-regional sales, permissions and reserves of crushed rock, 2016 (Thousand tonnes) .... 19 Table 7: Regional sales, permissions and reserves of crushed rock, 2007-2016 (Million tonnes, Mt) . 20 Table 8: Sub-regional sales at wharves of marine dredged sand and gravel, 2007-2016 (Thousand tonnes) .................................................................................................................................................. 21 Table 9: Sub-regional sales at wharves of imported crushed rock, 2007-2016 (Thousand tonnes) .... 22 Table 10: Sub-regional sales at rail depots, 2007-2016 (Thousand tonnes) ........................................ 23 Table 11: Sub-regional management of construction, demolition and excavation waste and sales of recycled and secondary aggregate 2016 (Thousand tonnes) .............................................................. 24 Table 12: Land-won, recycled and secondary aggregate sales and estimated sales capacity, 2016 .. 25 Table 13: Sub-regional aggregate sales and sales capacity at wharves and rail depots, 2016 (Thousand tonnes) ................................................................................................................................ 26 Table 14: South East Regional Aggregate Assessment 2016 - Summary (Thousand tonnes, Tt) .... 27 Figures Figure 1: Mineral planning authorities within the South East England region ........................................ 5 Figure 2: Location of aggregate sites within South East England (W) ................................................. 28 Figure 3: Location of aggregate sites within the eastern South East England (E) ............................... 29 Figure 4: Total aggregate supply in South East England region, 2007-2016 (Thousand tonnes)........ 31 Figure 5: Sand and gravel sales and reserves, 2007-2016 (Thousand tonnes) ................................... 32 Figure 6: Mineral planning authority sand and gravel sales and reserves, 2016 (Thousand tonnes) .. 33 Figure 7: Local crushed rock sales and reserves, 2007-2016 (Thousand tonnes ................................ 34 Figure 8: Marine-dredged aggregate sales, 2007-2016 (Thousand tonnes) ........................................ 35 Figure 9: Sea imported crushed rock sales, 2007-2016 (Thousand tonnes) ........................................ 36 Figure 10: Rail depot aggregate sales, 2007-2016 (Thousand tonnes) ............................................... 37 Figure 11: Primary aggregate sales/consumption, 2001-2014 (Million tonnes) ................................... 38 Figure 12: Primary aggregate imports/exports 2014 ............................................................................ 39 Appendices Appendix A: Permissions, refusals, undetermined and withdrawn applications in 2014 and 2015 ...... 40 Appendix B: Key Milestones for Minerals Local Plans in the South East, June 2016 .......................... 43 Appendix C: Active and Inactive quarries, wharves, rail depots and recycling/secondary aggregate sites in 2015. ......................................................................................................................................... 52 Appendix D: Major construction projects in the South East .................................................................. 67 Appendix E: Members of the South East Aggregate Working Party .................................................... 69 Executive Summary • This Aggregate Monitoring report covers 2016 and provides information on aggregate, including land-won sand and gravel, marine dredged aggregates and crushed rock sales in south east England as well as imported aggregates. The report also provides information on aggregate sites, including, wharves and rail depots along with recycling sites and provides a summary of relevant planning applications. • The National Planning Policy Framework requires mineral planning authorities to participate in Aggregate Working Parties in order to help maintain a steady and adequate supply of aggregates. Mineral planning authorities are also required to prepare Local Aggregate Assessments (LAAs) and, Aggregate Monitoring (AM) reports are essential for the preparation of these assessments. • A National Collation of AM Surveys was not undertaken in 2016 – it is expected that the next one will collect 2018 information. Nevertheless, information on sales and consumption and the imports and exports of aggregates for the South East are included in this report and in some more detail than that reported in AM 2014 and 2015. Moreover, further information including that for 2016 illustrates the trends in sales of all aggregates since 2007. This shows how since 2011 marine aggregate sales have become proportionately the largest source replacing land-won sand and gravel. Crushed rock imports sold through the wharves is increasing rapidly. • In 2016 sales of land-won sand gravel from the region’s 87 quarries were approximately 6 mt, virtually the same as in 2015. There has been a general decline in the quantity of these sales over the last decade although the soft sand element of sand and gravel has proportionately increased. The 10-year average sales of soft sand as proportion total sand and gravel sales was 25%. • The permitted reserves of land-won sand and gravel in the region at the end of 2016 were 73.8 mt, a similar figure to the 3-year average but 8% decrease on the 10-year average reserves. The land bank overall is about nine years and Hampshire, Surrey and Buckinghamshire/Milton Keynes are the only mineral planning authorities (mpas) with less than that. The land bank for soft sand is 14 years. There is about 18 mt of sand and gravel in undetermined planning applications as at the end of 2016. • Sales of crushed rock at 1.5 mt 18 quarries 20161, is slightly less than in 2015, but higher than the 10-year average of 1.3 mt. There is a substantial permitted reserve of crushed rock with a landbank of 26 years. • There are 39 wharves in the region. Sales of marine dredged aggregate from landing at the region’s wharves at over 7 mt are higher than 2015 and above 10-year average sales. Medway and Kent consistently sell over 50% of marine sand and gravel and most of the crushed rock imported by sea. 1 Please note that 6 of the crushed rock sites are also counted as sand and gravel quarries 1 • There are 36 rail depots in south east England that import crushed rock, principally from south west England and it is self-evident that this source needs to be secured. Sales in 2016 were 4.1