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Aggregates Monitoring Report 2008 Aggregates Monitoring Report 2008 Published December 2009 by the South East England Partnership Board South East England Partnership Board Berkeley House, Cross Lanes, Guildford, GU1 1UN T: 01483 555200 F: 01483 555250 E: [email protected] Produced by the South East England Regional Aggregates Working Party (SEERAWP) For further details about the contents of this document please contact: SEERAWP Secretary 22 Sittingbourne Road Maidstone Kent, ME14 5LW E: [email protected] Contents Page Executive summary 1 1. The South East 3 2. Scope of this report 3 3. Aggregate guidelines and regional minerals strategy 3 4. Sub-regional apportionment 4 5. Quarries 6 6. Wharves 7 7. Rail depots 8 8 Consumption of primary aggregates 8 9. Secondary and recycled materials 8 10. Environment 9 11. Local development schemes and minerals development plan documents 10 Tables 11 Table 1: Sand and gravels - sales, permissions and reserves 2008 11 Table 2: Sales of soft sand and sharp sand and gravel 1999-2008 12 Table 3: Sands and gravels - comparison between regional apportionment, sales, permissions and reserves 1999-2008 12 Table 4: Sand and gravel landbank at the end of 2008 13 Table 5: Crushed rock - sales, permissions and reserves in 2008 13 Table 6: Crushed rock - comparison between regional apportionment, sales, permissions and reserves 1999-2008 14 Table 7: Landings of marine dredged sand and gravel 1999-2008 14 Table 8: Imports of crushed rock by sea 1999-2008 15 Table 9: Sales of aggregate at rail depots 2003-2008 15 Figures 16 Figure 1: Administrative areas of South East England 16 Figure 2: Sand and gravel sales compared with regional apportionment and permissions 1999-2008 17 Figure 3: Sand and gravel reserves at end of 2008 17 Figure 4: Reserves of sand and gravel, 1999-2008 18 Figure 5a: Reserves of sand and gravel, capacity to supply 2009-2020 at 13.25 Mtpa 18 Figure 5b: Reserves of sand and gravel, capacity to supply 2009-2020 at average sales 2006, 2007, 2008 19 Figure 6: Sales of local crushed rock compared with regional apportionment, 1999-2008 19 Figure 7: Reserves of local crushed rock, 1999-2008 20 Figure 8: Landings of marine-dredged sand and gravel, 1999-2008 20 Figure 9: Imports of crushed rock by sea, 1999-2008 21 Figure 10: Sales of aggregates at rail depots, 2003-2008 21 Figure 11: Primary aggregate consumption 2008 22 Figure 12: Sand and gravel reserves at the end of 2008 23 Figure 13: Crushed rock reserves at the end of 2008 23 Figure 14: Landings of marine-dredged sand and gravel 2008 24 Maps 25 Berkshire quarries 2008 25 Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes quarries 2008 26 East Sussex quarries 2008 27 Hampshire, Portsmouth, Southampton New Forest National Park and Isle of Wight quarries 2008 28 Kent and Medway quarries 2008 29 Kent quarries 2008 (insets) 30 Oxfordshire quarries 2008 31 Surrey quarries 2008 32 West Sussex quarries 2008 33 Aggregate Wharves 34 Aggregate Rail Depots 35 Annexes 36 Annex A: Permissions, refusals, undetermined and withdrawn applications 37 Annex B: Key milestones for Minerals Development Plan Documents in the South East Region 44 Annex C: Summary of publications on aggregates 47 Annex D: Active and inactive aggregate sites, wharves, rail depots and sites producing secondary and recycled aggregate 48 Executive summary This report for the South East has been • Sales continue well below the 2009 prepared from returns made to mineral published guidelines of 12.18mtpa. At planning authorities (MPAs) by operators of 7.3Mt, sales in 2008 were 40% below the quarries, wharves and rail depots. Data on apportionment recycling and alternative materials has also been sought in this survey. Where possible, • Reserves have declined by more than 70Mt trend comparisons are made with previous in the last 10 years because replenishment aggregate monitoring reports for the region. of reserves has been only just over 50% of annual sales Regional guidelines and sub-regional apportionment • The landbank is just under seven years at the 2009 regional apportionment level, • The South East England Regional and does not meet the Minerals Policy Aggregates Working Party (SEERAWP) Statement (MPS) 1 requirement of ‘at least raised no objection to the draft revised seven years’. This is due to four authorities guidelines issued for consultation in April having a landbank of less than seven years. 2008. The guidelines issued in June 2009 If sales continue at the average of the last confirm the regional apportionment for three years, reserves would apparently land-won sand and gravel in the draft of last more than 10 years, but in practice 12.18 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) difficulties in supply would be seen earlier if further permissions were not granted. • Notwithstanding this the former Regional Assembly1, in its review of the policy M3 Local crushed rock of the South East Plan, challenged the regional figure for land-won sand and • Sales of crushed rock were 1.4Mt in 2008, gravel. The Assembly consulted on a 0.1Mt less than in 2007. The 2009 published regional total of 9.01mtpa. An Examination guidelines set a figure of 1.56mtpa for in Public (EiP) was held by a panel of crushed rock, which reflects average sales independent inspectors in October 2009. over the last 10 years • The panel’s report was published on 27 • With 48Mt of reserves, there are more than November and proposes a regional total of 30 years for working at the 2009 regional 11.12mtpa. The Government will consider apportionment level and 35 years at the the panel’s recommendations before level of sales in the last three years. consulting further. Landings of marine-dredged sand and gravel Land-won sand and gravel • The Crown Estate figure of 5.8Mt for 2008 • Sand and gravel sales have fallen for the is 0.7Mt less than the volume of landings in ninth year running to 7.3 million tonnes 2007 (Mt), 1.2Mt less than in 2007 1 The South East England Regional Assembly was dissolved on 31 March 2009. It has been replaced by the South East England Partnership Board. For more information visit www.se-partnershipboard.org.uk Aggregates Monitoring Report 2008 1 • Marine dredged aggregate is providing 40% • However, returns are incomplete and these of the primary aggregate supply from the figures need to be treated with caution. South East. Consumption of primary aggregates Landings of sea-borne crushed rock • The South East may have consumed 20Mt • Landings of crushed rock in 2008 at 2.3Mt of primary aggregate in 2008. are down 0.7Mt on the landings in 2007 Environment • 90% of crushed rock was landed at wharves in Medway and Kent. • Of the 143 active and inactive quarries, at least 20% lie within or partly within an Rail aggregate depots international or national landscape or nature conservation designated area. • Some 2.8Mt of crushed rock and 0.5Mt of land-won sand and gravel was sold from Minerals development plans rail depots in 2008. • Only Hampshire has an adopted core Secondary and recycled materials strategy, and an EiP has been held into the core strategy submitted by the Isle of Wight. • The 2008 returns show that 2.7Mt of Surrey is the most advanced of other MPAs, construction, demolition and excavation but at least four will not submit their core waste (CD&EW) is being recycled at fixed strategies to the Secretary of State until sites and used for aggregate, and 0.6Mt late 2010/2011, and minerals development from other materials plan documents (DPDs) lag further behind. 2 Aggregates Monitoring Report 2008 Aggregates Monitoring Report 2008 1. The South East at wharves in the region has also been provided separately by the Crown Estate. 1.1 This is the tenth aggregates monitoring (AM) report to be produced for South 2.2 The MPAs have also been asked to provide East England since the first in 1999. details of applications, those permitted Reports for 1996, 1997 and 1998 have or refused and those undetermined or been produced by extracting data from the withdrawn in 2008. A summary of the data ‘wider South East’ AM surveys for those for each MPA is set out in Annex A. years. All thirteen reports are available from the South East England Partnership 2.3 The tables in this AM report have been Board (see Annex C). expanded to provide comparable data for land-won sand and gravel and crushed 1.2 As with earlier AM surveys, this report rock, and also to draw comparison with monitors at the regional level and the the provision sought in the national and text reflects this. Data in the tables is regional guidelines4. The figures have presented for eight geographical counties2 similarly been expanded to illustrate the and three unitary authorities3 (see tables. Figure 1). 2.4 AM2008 includes plans showing the 2. Scope of this report spatial distribution of active quarries, wharves and rail depots. In addition, in 2.1 Data on primary aggregates sales, view of the dependence of the region on permissions and reserves from quarries significant levels of imports for the supply for AM2008 has been provided by of aggregates, this report also includes a operators via the mineral planning plan illustrating the supply pattern. authorities (MPAs) that collated individual site returns. Data has similarly been 3. Aggregate guidelines and regional obtained for sales from wharves and minerals strategy rail depots, and for recycled aggregate and secondary materials – but in the 3.1 The minerals policies in the regional latter case with limited success. Data on spatial strategy for the South East, marine-dredged sand and gravel landed The South East Plan5 are based on the 2 Berkshire (including Bracknell Forest, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor and Maidenhead, and Wokingham), Buckinghamshire, East Sussex (including Brighton and Hove), Hampshire (including Portsmouth, Southampton and New Forest National Park), Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey, and West Sussex 3 Isle of Wight, Medway, and Milton Keynes 4 National and Regional Guidelines for Aggregates Provision in England 2005-2020, published by CLG June 2009.