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Statement of Consultation Minerals, Waste and Low Carbon Technical Consultation Reports Contents The County Durham Plan Statement of Consultation Related to Minerals Technical Consultation Reports (December 2010), Waste and Low Carbon Technical Consultation Reports (May 2011) Contents 1. INTRODUCTION 5 The Role of the Statement of Consultation 5 Durham County Council Statement of Community 6 Involvement Future consultation on the County Durham Plan 6 2. CONTINUOUS ENGAGEMENT CONSULTATION 9 Who was consulted? 9 How were the public and other stakeholders consulted? 9 How the representations were taken into account 10 A. RESPONSES TO TECHNICAL CONSULTATION REPORT 'TOWARDS A MINERALS DELIVERY STRATEGY FOR 12 COUNTY DURHAM' Question 1 - Residual Need 12 Question 2 - Aggregate Landbanks 15 Question 3 - Magnesian Limestone 18 Question 4 - Carboniferous Limestone 24 Question 5 - Dolerite 25 Question 6 - Sand and Gravel 26 Question 7 - High Grade Dolomitic Limestone 28 Question 8 - Agricultural Lime 31 Question 9 - Brickmaking Raw Materials 37 Question 10 - Surface Mined Coal and Fireclay 40 Question 11 - Natural Building and Roofing Stone 41 Question 12 - Silca Sand 42 Question 13 - Vein Minerals 43 Question 14 - East Durham Limestone Plateau 44 Statement of Consultation Minerals, Waste and Low Carbon Technical Consultation Reports Contents Question 15 - West Durham Coalfield and Wear Lowlands 59 Question 16 - Tees Lowlands 64 Question 17 - North Pennines 67 Question 18 - Dales Fringe 71 B. RESPONSES TO TECHNICAL CONSULTATION PAPER 75 'ENERGY MINERALS' Question 1 - Issues and Options for Surface Coal Mining 75 Question 2 and 3 - Should the County Durham Plan contain a policy for surface mined coal extraction and 78 fireclay extraction? How can it be improved? Question 4 - Planning constraints in the exposed coalfield 82 Question 5 - Use of a GIS based constraints map 85 Question 6 - What are your views on the application of a 88 constraints based approach? Question 7 - Conventional Oil and Gas Development 91 Question 8 - Coal Bed Methane 91 Question 9 - Methane from Coal Mines 92 Question 10 - Underground Coal Gasification 93 C. RESPONSES TO TECHNICAL CONSULTATION PAPER 95 'NEW MINERALS AND WASTE SITES IN COUNTY DURHAM' Question 1 - Revised Criteria for identifying Strategic Sites 95 Question 2 - Strategic Site at Todhills Brickworks 104 Question 3 - Strategic Site at Low Harperley 105 Question 4 - Strategic Waste Allocation at Thrislington 107 Quarry Question 5 - Basal Permian Sand at Thrislington Quarry 115 Question 6 - Thrislington Quarry eastern extension 121 Statement of Consultation Minerals, Waste and Low Carbon Technical Consultation Reports Contents Question 7 - Southern allocation at Thrislington Quarry 123 Question 8 - Strategic site proposal Heights Quarry 126 Question 9 - Proposed surface mine coal sites 135 Question 10 - Waste Handling Facility Langley Park 227 Industrial Estate North Question 11 - Waste Transfer Station Old Brickworks, 228 Bishop Auckland Question 12 - Criteria for Non Strategic Minerals Sites 230 Question 13 - Criteria for non-strategic Waste Sites 234 D. RESPONSES TO TECHNICAL CONSULTATION PAPER 'SAFEGUARDING MINERAL RESOURCES FOR THE 235 FUTURE'. Question 1 - To distinguish between resource and 235 operator proposals. Question 2 - Should we buffer the resource boundary 240 Question 3 - Coal resources underlying urban areas 247 Question 4 - Other minerals underlying urban areas 250 Question 5 - Draft development managment approach for 254 mineral safeguarding Question 6 - Guidelines for development which would not 261 be viewed as sterilising development within a MSA Question 7 - Potential development management policy 267 for safeguarding mineral related infrastructure E. RESPONSES TO TECHNICAL CONSULTATION REPORT 272 'TOWARDS A WASTE DELIVERY STRATEGY' Question 1 - Approach to assessing existing and future 272 capacity Statement of Consultation Minerals, Waste and Low Carbon Technical Consultation Reports Contents Question 2 - Key Locational Principles 280 Question 3 - Safeguarding Waste Sites 283 Question 4 - North Durham Delivery Area 289 Question 5 - Central Durham Delivery Area 290 Question 6 - East Durham Delivery Area 291 Question 7 - South Durham Delivery Area 292 Question 8 - West Durham Delivery Area 293 F. RESPONSES TO TECHNICAL CONSULTATION REPORT 'TOWARDS A STRATEGY FOR LOW CARBON ENERGY 296 IN COUNTY DURHAM' Question 1 - An Energy Hierarchy 296 Question 2 - Renewable electricity and heat targets 306 Question 3 - AONB wind energy policy 312 Question 4 - Broad Areas of Least Constraint 318 Question 5 - District heating schemes 324 Question 6 - Local targets for decentralised energy 327 Question 7 - A Carbon Offset Fund 329 Question 8 - North Durham Delivery Area approach 334 Question 9 - East Durham Delivery Area approach 340 Question 10 - Central Durham Delivery Area approach 344 Question 11 - South Durham Delivery Area approach 345 Question 12 - West Durham Delivery Area approach 351 Statement of Consultation Minerals, Waste and Low Carbon Technical Consultation Reports Introduction 1 1 Introduction The Role of the Statement of Consultation 1.1 The purpose of this Statement of Consultation is to show how Durham County Council has engaged with key stakeholders and the local community in the development of the County Durham Plan. The need for a new County Durham Plan arose when the new county-wide Unitary Council was established on 1st April 2009 to replace the existing County Council and all of the seven District Councils in County Durham. The County Durham Plan will set out the priorities for development in the County up to 2030 and when adopted it will include an overall spatial vision along with both the strategic and detailed elements of the planning framework for County Durham. In doing this, it will also act as a key delivery mechanism for the aspirations and priorities of Durham's Sustainable Community Strategy and the Regeneration Statement. 1.2 This Statement of Consultation reports upon six separate consultations which took place as part of a process of continuous engagement which occurred between publication of the Core Strategy Issues and Options Paper in June 2010 and up to and alongside the Core Strategy Policy Directions Consultation Paper in May 2011. These are: Technical Consultation Paper: Towards a Minerals Delivery Strategy for County Durham (December 2010); Technical Consultation Paper: Energy Minerals in County Durham (December 2010); Technical Consultation Paper: New Minerals and Waste Sites in County Durham (December 2010); Technical Consultation Paper: Safeguarding Mineral Resources for the future - Further consultation on Mineral Safeguarding Areas in County Durham December 2010); Technical Consultation Paper:Towards a Waste Delivery Strategy for County Durham (May 2011); Technical Consultation Paper: Towards Towards a Strategy for Low Carbon Energy in County Durham (May 2011) 1.3 This Statement of Consultation will outline the following key information: Who was consulted on these Technical Consultation Papers; When consultation and other engagement happened; Statement of Consultation Minerals, Waste and Low Carbon Technical Consultation Reports 5 1 Introduction How were the public and other stakeholders consulted; The results of the Policy Directions consultation; and How the representations were taken into account. 1.4 Copies of all of the Statements of Consultation which have been prepared can be downloaded from the Councils website at: http://www.durham.gov.uk/Pages/Service.aspx?ServiceId=8754 Durham County Council Statement of Community Involvement 1.5 The preparation of the Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) is a statutory requirement as part of the County Durham Plan development process. The Council originally published its Statement of Community Involvement in May 2010. However, as a result of the recent changes to the planning system as a result of the Localism Act and the new National Planning Policy Framework, a revised SCI has been prepared to take into account its requirements. 1.6 The Council's revised SCI (July 2012) is an important document in relation to how future consultation events are conducted in order to ensure a proper engagement with the community is continued. The purpose of the SCI is to explain how we will formally engage those who have an interest in matters relating to development in an area and in the preparation of the forthcoming County Durham Plan. It will include details of monitoring requirements to ensure that community engagement will be properly undertaken. The SCI is available to download from the Councils website at: www.durham.gov.uk/cdp Future consultation on the County Durham Plan 1.7 Since these Technical Consultation Reports were published the principle of 'Localism' has emerged, established in the Localism Act and through the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) which was introduced in March 2012. This introduced various new planning initiatives, including Neighbourhood Planning. The Localism Act and the NPPF will have a significant impact on the preparation of the County Durham Plan. Primarily the County Durham Plan will be a Local Plan, comprising one main document, rather than a Local Development Framework. 6 Statement of Consultation Minerals, Waste and Low Carbon Technical Consultation Reports Introduction 1 1.8 The Council's Local Plan converts work undertaken to prepare an overarching Core Strategy and combines that with other work undertaken to now include other matters such as housing, employment and retail allocations, and development management policies within a single planning document.
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