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Mineral Sites Preferred Options Commentary Report Mineral Sites Preferred Options Commentary Report October 2012 Kent Minerals & Waste Development Framework Planning for the future of minerals and waste in Kent Front Cover Images Top Left: Restored sand and gravel quarry. Bottom Right: Marine sand and gravel being discharged from a dredger on the Thames Estuary. Mineral Sites Preferred Options Commentary Report Kent County Council Contents Abbreviations i 1 Introduction 1 2 Preferred Options Site Map 2 Mineral Sites: Preferred Options 4 Mineral Sites Preferred Options Document 4 5 Mineral Sites Preferred Options Evidence Base 6 6 Sand and Gravel Sites 8 Soft Sand Sites 10 Site 6: Land Adjacent to Platt Industrial Site, Platt 10 Site 24: Land North of Addington Lane, Trottiscliffe 12 Site 75: Boltons Field, Lenham Heath 14 Site 76: Chapel Farm, Lenham 18 Site 77: Burleigh Farm & Tile Lodge, Charing 22 Site 97: Shrine Farm, Postling 26 Site 105: Borough Green Sand Pits Extension, Wrotham 30 Sharp Sand and Gravel Sites 32 Site 2: Beltring Green Farm, East Peckham 32 Site 17: Moat Farm, Capel 34 Site 49: Land Adjacent to Hammer Dyke, Capel 36 Site 71: Stonecastle Farm, Whetsted 38 Kent County Council Mineral Sites Preferred Options Commentary Report Site 73: Lydd Quarry Extensions (Areas A - D), Lydd 40 7 Crushed Rock (Ragstone) Sites 44 8 Silica Sand Sites 46 Contents Site 24: Land North of Addington Lane, Trottiscliffe 48 9 Chalk Sites for Cement Manufacture 50 10 Chalk Sites for Agriculture and Engineering Use 52 Site 63: Pinden Quarry Extension, Dartford 52 11 Brickearth Sites 56 Site 19: Paradise Farm, Hartlip and Newington 58 Site 98: Jefferies Site, Teynham 62 Site 101: Barbary Farm, Norton Ash 64 Site 102: Barrow Green Farm, Teynham 66 12 Clay Sites 68 Site 60: Norwood Quarry & Landfill Extension, Minster and Eastchurch 68 13 Mineral Importation Sites 70 Site 1: East Peckham Rail Depot, East Peckham 72 14 Secondary and Recycled Aggregate Sites 74 Site 21: F M Conway, Rochester Way, Dartford 76 Site 65: Land North of Stevens & Carlotti, Richborough 78 Site 72: Unit 14, Canterbury Industrial Estate, Hersden 80 Site 91: Animal Products Site, Faversham 84 Site 99: Broomway Ltd, Swanscombe 86 Mineral Sites Preferred Options Commentary Report Kent County Council Contents Mineral Sites: Not Allocated Site 3: Arnolds Lodge Farm West, East Peckham 88 Site 4: Woodfalls Farm, Yalding 89 Site 5: Filston Lane, Shoreham 90 Site 7: Hermitage Quarry Westerly Extension, Aylesford 91 Site 8: Chelsfield Ammunition Depot, Shoreham 92 Site 10: Pluckley Road, Charing 93 Site 12: Newington Industrial Estate, Newington 94 Site 16: Beacon Hill Quarry, Charing 95 Site 25: Ham Farm, Faversham 96 Site 26: Hollowshore, Faversham 97 Site 45: Dunbrik Depot, Sundridge 98 Site 50: Ightham Sand Pit Western Extension, Ightham 99 Site 56: Hegdale, Challock 100 Site 62: Newlands Farm, Charing 101 Site 69: Burleigh Farm, Charing 102 Site 74: Charing Quarry Extension, Charing 103 Site 78: Richborough Limestone Mine, Sandwich 104 Site 80: Faversham Quarry, Faversham 105 Site 86: Charing Quarry (Waste 2), Charing 106 Kent County Council Mineral Sites Preferred Options Commentary Report 'No Response' Sites Contents 'No Response' Sites 107 Appendices Appendix 1 108 Glossary 112 Mineral Sites Preferred Options Commentary Report Kent County Council i Abbreviations AONB Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty AQMA Air Quality Management Area CDE Construction, Demolition and Excavation Waste EfW Energy from Waste HGV Heavy Goods Vehicle HRA Habitats Regulation Assessment KCC Kent County Council LWS Local Wildlife Site MWDF Minerals and Waste Development Framework NPPF National Planning Policy Framework NNR National Nature Reserve PRoW Public Right of Way RIGS Regionally Important Geological Sites SA Sustainability Appraisal SAC Special Area of Conservation SEA Strategic Environmental Assessment SNCI Site of Nature Conservation Interest (replaced by LWS) SPA Special Protection Area SPZ Source Protection Zone SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest ii Kent County Council Mineral Sites Preferred Options Commentary Report This page has been left blank intentionally. Abbreviations Mineral Sites Preferred Options Commentary Report Kent County Council 1 1 Response Summary Introduction Introduction What is the Mineral Sites Preferred Options Commentary 1.4 The consultation for the Mineral Sites Plan Preferred Report? Options Document produced a total of 610 responses. Table 1 details how these responses were conveyed and the nature of 1.1 The Mineral Sites Preferred Options Commentary Report their submission. is a summary document of the responses received during the Mineral Sites Plan Preferred Options consultation which ran Table 1. Breakdown of total responses received. from 9am on the 28 May 2012, to 5pm on the 23 July 2012. Consultees and stakeholders were invited to provide their views Total number of responses: 610 on the sites outlined in the Mineral Sites Plan Preferred Options Document(1). Method Nature of response 1.2 This document provides a concise review of the responses Portal website 147 Object 347 (341 for allocated sites) received from members of the public, industry stakeholders and Email 343 Support 105 (28 for allocated sites) statutory consultees(2) in an attempt to highlight the main issues raised in supporting, objecting to or commenting on the various Letter 120 Comment 158 (136 for allocated sites) allocated and non-allocated sites contained within the Mineral Sites Plan Preferred Options Document. Consultees were able 1.5 Petitions accounted for two of the 610 responses which to submit their views via the KCC online consultation website, were sent to KCC by individual consultees. The first petition sent by email and by post. If you would like to view full responses to KCC contained 92 signatures objecting to Site 19 in Hartlip that were made public, please visit our Consultation Portal at and Newington. The second objected to Sites 75 and 76 in http://consult.kent.gov.uk/portal. Lenham and contained 463 signatures (an increase of 386 signatures when compared to a 77 signature petition sent to 1.3 The responses submitted to KCC will be recorded as part KCC during the previous consultation for the Mineral Sites of the ongoing site assessment process. Data collection and Development Plan Document. site visits will then be formulated, taking into consideration the emerging Minerals and Waste Core Strategy policies and 1.6 Please see Appendix 1 for a more detailed comparison of changes to national planning policy. The next document to be response rates for the latest consultation and the Mineral Sites consulted upon will be the Core Strategy Pre-submission Draft. Development Plan Options consultation which ran from the 31 The Pre-submission Mineral Sites Plan will not be published May 2011 to the 9 August 2011. until the Core Strategy is adopted, estimated in September 2014. 1 Available at http://consult.kent.gov.uk/portal/min-dpd/min_pref-options?pointId=2189750 2 As required under the 2004 Local Development (England) Regulations (as amended by the 2008 and 2009 Regulations) and the duty-to-co-operate contained in the Localism Act Mineral Sites - Preferred Options 99 21 ") Medway ") Dartford 60 ") 63 Swale ") Gravesham Thanet Medway 19 ") 91 98 102 ") 72 ") ") ") 65 10")1 ") 24 Swale ") 105 ")") 6 Canterbury Sevenoaks Tonbridge and Malling Maidstone 76 75 ") Dover 1 ") ")77 71 ") 17 ") 2 ") ") ")49 Ashford 97 Tunbridge Wells ") Shepway 73 ") 0 10 20 Kilometres ¯ © Crown Copyright and database right 2012. Ordnance Survey 100019238 1:390,000 Mineral Sites Preferred Options Commentary Report Kent County Council 3 2 This page has been left blank intentionally. Preferred Options Site Map 4 Kent County Council Mineral Sites Preferred Options Commentary Report Responses for Mineral Sites Preferred Options Document Object 1 34 responses Support 0 Responses relating to the Mineral Sites Preferred Options Document in its entirety. Comment 33 Consultee Response In response to the NPPF (in particular para. 153), we advocate that the plans should be brought together and progressed as one Local Plan. This would benefit plan-making because there are several issues such as development management policies for waste sites, environmental criteria-based policies and allocations which are best considered alongside each other. At the very least the MWDF needs Tonbridge & to be rebranded the Minerals and Waste Local Plan and a clear justification needs to be provided for continuing with the production of Malling three separate plans following different plan-making timetables. The documents will also need to demonstrate that they have met the Borough Duty to Cooperate, introduced by the Localism Act, insofar as they have been prepared in liaison and in collaboration with the Districts. Council Whilst it is recognised that there is a need to identify additional sites to meet the plan requirements, concern is expressed about the clustering of sites in and around the Borough Green area and on the border between Tonbridge & Malling and Tunbridge Wells and the cumulative adverse impacts these will have. Mineral Sites Preferred Options Document Shepherdswell with Coldred PC wishes to ask that every effort be made to route heavy goods vehicles associated with minerals and 4 waste movement away from village roads. Barming PC was very interested in KCC's helpful response (i.e. "that national planning policy Parish requires that applications are assessed against a wider range of planning issues than landbanks alone"). It would be helpful to include Councils a footnote to that effect somewhere in the final document, particularly in view of the forthcoming inquiry into Hermitage Quarry which might well prove to be a landmark decision, whichever way it goes. Teston PC agrees with the views expressed by Barming PC. We have a number of comments and concerns relating to habitat loss, nitrogen deposition, sulphur emissions, hydrology and water Kent Wildlife quality, noise and disturbance, supporting habitats and the contribution of restoration to the delivery of the Biodiversity Opportunity Areas Trust (BOAs).
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