Waste and Minerals Monitoring Report 2017/18
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eastsussex.gov.uk East Sussex Waste and Minerals Monitoring Report 2017/18 February 2019 Waste and Minerals Monitoring Report 2017/18 Contents Waste and Minerals Local Plan - Annual Monitoring Report 2017-18 1 Executive Summary 4 2 Context and Role of the Monitoring Report 7 3 Characteristics of East Sussex 9 4 Progress of the Waste & Minerals Local Plan 14 5 Duty to Co-operate 16 6 Monitoring the Plan 18 7 Overarching Strategy 21 8 Providing for Waste 29 9 Providing for Minerals 44 10 Overarching Policies 49 11 Development Management Policies 50 12 Enforcement 51 13 Monitoring Issues 54 Appendices A Structure of the Waste and Minerals Local Plan 56 B Programme for the Waste and Minerals Development Scheme 57 C Duty to Co-operate 58 D LACW and Household Waste Arisings in East Sussex and Brighton & Hove 67 E Other Targets for the Management of LACW 69 F Permitted Waste Management Sites in East Sussex and Brighton & Hove 70 G Permitting of Significant Waste Management Capacity in East Sussex 2006/7 - 2017/18 77 H Permitted Mineral Workings in East Sussex 2017/18 80 Waste and Minerals Monitoring Report 2017/18 Contents I Secondary and Recycled Aggregates Facilities in East Sussex and Brighton & Hove 82 J Review of Mineral Permissions 84 K Local Aggregate Assessment 87 Waste and Minerals Monitoring Report 2017/18 3 Waste and Minerals Local Plan - Annual Monitoring Report 2017-18 4 Waste and Minerals Monitoring Report 2017/18 1Executive Summary 1 Executive Summary Introduction 1.1 East Sussex County Council, as a Waste and Minerals Planning Authority, provides planning policies for waste management and minerals production. Current policies are contained in the East Sussex, South Downs and Brighton & Hove Waste and Minerals Plan and the East Sussex, South Downs and Brighton & Hove Waste and Sites Plan. The Council is required by the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, as amended by the Localism Act 2011, to monitor implementation of these policies and partly does this by producing an annual Waste & Minerals Monitoring Report (AMR). The content of Monitoring Reports is prescribed by the Town & Country Planning (Local Planning) Regulations 2012.This Monitoring Report covers the period 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018. Monitoring Reports from previous years can be found on our website www.eastsussex.gov.uk. Key Findings of 2017/18 1.2 Below are the key findings of the East Sussex Waste and Minerals Monitoring Report 2017/18: Progress on the Waste & Minerals Local Plan 1.3 Following the adoption of the Waste and Minerals Plan (WMP) in February 2013, East Sussex County Council working jointly with the South Downs National Park Authority and Brighton & Hove City Council adopted the Waste and Minerals Sites Plan (WMSP) in February 2017. The WMSP triggered a review of the Waste and Minerals Local Plan which is currently underway. Between September 2017 and November 2017 a Call for Evidence and Sites was undertaken. The Review timetable has been extended due to ongoing discussions regarding sand/gravel sites in the east of the County. It is now anticipated that a Regulation 18 consultation will take place during 2019. Duty to Co-operate 1.4 East Sussex County Council continues to work jointly with the South Downs National Park and Brighton & Hove City Council in undertaking the Review of the Waste and Minerals Local Plan. The preparation of this Review has involved working closely with the Districts and Boroughs within and nearby to East Sussex. The Authorities actively participate in regional fora such as the South East Waste Planning Advisory Group and the South East England Aggregates Working Party. The Authorities published an updated Duty to Cooperate Scoping Document for the Waste and Minerals Local Plan Review in September 2017. Providing for Waste Waste and Minerals Monitoring Report 2017/18 5 Executive Summary1 1.5 A total of 372,000 tonnes of Local Authority Collected Waste was managed in 2017/18 which is an decrease of 2,000 tonnes from 2016/17. 39% of this waste was recycled (including composted) which is below the 2015/16 WMP target of 45%, but does represent an increase from the 2014/15 outturn of 38%. The review of the Commercial & Industrial Waste arisings has been updated with 2017 data, preliminary results indicate a significant reduction in waste arisings during the recession, but these have now exceeded pre-recession levels. No new information relating to Construction, Demolition and Excavation Waste is available. The amount of Local Authority Collected Waste and Commercial & Industrial Waste being sent to landfill declined from 54,000 tonnes in 2016 to 45,000 tonnes in 2017. The proportion of Local Authority Collected Waste that was recycled, composted or recovered has broadly remained stable, from 94% in 2016/17 to 95% in 2017/18. The Waste and Minerals Plan target for recovery for 2015/16 (98%) was not achieved. 1.6 A total of 677,000 tonnes of capacity for inert material to be used for beneficial use was permitted (granted planning permission) in 2017/18. The Waste and Minerals Plan 2015/16 target for recovery and recycling capacity provision were met. Providing for Minerals 1.7 The County Council has published the (2018) sixth Local Aggregate Assessment (LAA) for East Sussex, South Downs and Brighton & Hove (which is appended to this document). The overall picture of aggregate supply to the Plan area is of heavy dependence on imports by road, sea and rail. Significant levels of marine imports (marine dredged and crushed rock) are received through Shoreham Port and to a lesser extent Newhaven and Rye. Crushed rock, recycled aggregate and sand and gravel are imported by rail at Newhaven. Land-won sand and gravel is extracted in the east of the Plan area at Lydd with about 50% of material being consumed in East Sussex. A steady supply of recycled material is produced from construction waste management facilities across the Plan area. A continuing demand for construction materials is anticipated. 1.8 The NPPF requires that the LAA considers all supply options (land-won, marine, secondary and recycled material), and be based on a rolling average of 10 years sales data and other relevant local information. In past years the Authorities' assessment was that there were particular circumstances in this Plan Area that made it difficult to prepare the LAA totally along the lines indicated in the NPPG. Previous LAAs concluded that the assessment could not use past 10 years sales data as this was too volatile because there is a very small number of production sites and therefore there has been major variation in sales figures from nothing to more substantial output. Past LAAs instead used the Apportionment figure in the Adopted WMLP as a surrogate figure for forward planning. 1.9 In 2016 a Public Examination on the soundness and legal compliance of the East Sussex, South Downs and Brighton & Hove Waste and Minerals Sites Plan was held. Hearings focused on the whether the Plan provided a sufficient and adequate supply of aggregates. Whilst the Inspector found the Sites Plan sound, in his Report 6 Waste and Minerals Monitoring Report 2017/18 1Executive Summary he identified that the current rate of land-won aggregates in the WMP could not be maintained with the current allocated sites and indicted the need for a Review of the aggregate minerals policies. The Authorities have since agreed to a Review of the Waste and Minerals Local Plan (WMLP) which commenced in September 2017. The Review will re-evaluate the aggregate provision figures for the Plan Area. 1.10 Clay and gypsum continued to be extracted at levels that support brick and tile production, plasterboard and cement production; it continues to be extracted at the levels in accordance with policy. Overarching Policies & Development Management Policies 1.11 A review of the Overarching Policies and Development Management Policies is being undertaken as part of the Review into the Waste and Minerals Local Plan. The results will be published in due course. Enforcement 1.12 The number of cases outstanding has remained historically low, with the caseload standing at 12 in the third quarter of 2018. This remains well below the peak in 2007.(1) 1 The quarters referred to are calendar quarters. Waste and Minerals Monitoring Report 2017/18 7 Context and Role of the Monitoring Report2 2 Context and Role of the Monitoring Report 2.1 East Sussex County Council, as a Waste and Minerals Planning Authority, provides planning policies for waste management and minerals production, which are prepared jointly with Brighton & Hove City Council and the South Downs National Park Authority. The Council is required to monitor implementation of these policies by the provisions in the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 and does this by producing a Waste & Minerals Monitoring Report, which also provides data and commentary on trends in waste management and minerals production. 2.2 This Monitoring Report covers the period 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018. AMRs from previous years can be found on the Council's annual monitoring report webpage. 2.3 Some reporting of significant developments that have taken place between 31 March 2018 and the preparation of this document are also included. 2.4 This Monitoring Report covers only waste and minerals matters. Other forms of development and development planning in the Plan Area, for example housing or employment land, are dealt with by the City, Borough, and District Councils, and the National Park Authority in their own existing and emerging Local Plans and Monitoring Reports. 2.5 The Monitoring Report reports against the following key monitoring tasks for the Plan Area which includes Brighton & Hove and part of the South Down National Park: Assessing the extent to which policies in the Waste and Minerals Plan and Waste and Minerals Sites Plan are being implemented; reporting on the Review into the Waste and Minerals Local Plan against the timetable and milestones in the Minerals and Waste Development Scheme; checking performance against indicators and local objectives for waste and minerals.