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Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan - October 2013 (Adopted) H A M P S H I R E PORTSMOUTH, SOUTHAMPTON, NEW FOREST NATIONAL PARK & SOUTH DOWNS NATIONAL PARK MINERALS AND WASTE PLAN Adopted – October 2013 © Crown Copyright and database rights 2013. All rights reserved. HCC 100019180. © Environment Agency Copyright 2012. All rights reserved. The location of mineral resources are based upon the BGS mineral resources data, with permission of the British Geological Survey. ISBN: 978-1-85975-887-8 Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan - October 2013 (Adopted) Foreword 4 1. Introduction 6 2. Vision and Spatial Strategy 9 Hampshire in 2011 10 Issues for the Plan 14 Other Plans and Programmes 15 Vision - Where we need to be 16 Spatial Strategy 17 Key Diagram 21 3. Sustainable minerals and waste development 23 4. Protecting Hampshire's Environment 26 Climate change 28 Habitats and species 29 Landscape and countryside 32 South West Hampshire Green Belt 35 Historic environment and heritage assets 37 Soils 39 Restoration of minerals and waste developments 40 5. Maintaining Hampshire's Communities 45 Protecting public health, safety and amenity 47 Flooding - risk and prevention 49 Managing traffic impacts 51 Design, construction and operation of minerals and waste development 52 Community benefits and engagement 55 6. Supporting Hampshire's Economy 57 Minerals 59 Other minerals 82 Waste 91 Safeguarding potential minerals and waste wharf and rail depot infrastructure 122 Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan - October 2013 (Adopted) 7. Implementation, Monitoring and Plan Review 125 Glossary and acronyms 127 Appendix A - Site allocations 149 Basingstoke Sidings 152 Bleak Hill Quarry extension 154 Bramshill Quarry extension 156 Cutty Brow 158 Forest Lodge Home Farm 160 Hamble Airfield 162 Micheldever Sidings 164 Michelmersh Brickworks 166 Purple Haze 168 Roeshot 170 Selborne Brickworks 172 Squabb Wood Landfill 174 Mineral Safeguarding Area - Whitehill & Bordon 176 Appendix B - List of safeguarded minerals and waste sites 178 Appendix C - Implementation and Monitoring Plan 196 Appendix D - Relationship between Plan policies and previously 243 adopted policies Appendix E - Supporting documents 246 Policies Map 248 Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan - October 2013 (Adopted) List of Policies Policy 1: Sustainable minerals and waste development 23 Policy 2: Climate change - mitigation and adaptation 28 Policy 3: Protection of habitats and species 31 Policy 4: Protection of the designated landscape 33 Policy 5: Protection of the countryside 34 Policy 6: South West Hampshire Green Belt 36 Policy 7: Conserving the historic environment and heritage assets 38 Policy 8: Protection of soils 39 Policy 9: Restoration of minerals and waste developments 41 Policy 10: Protecting public health, safety and amenity 47 Policy 11: Flood risk and prevention 50 Policy 12: Managing traffic 51 Policy 13: High-quality design of minerals and waste development 53 Policy 14: Community benefits 55 Policy 15: Safeguarding - mineral resources 59 Policy 16: Safeguarding - minerals infrastructure 62 Policy 17: Aggregate supply – capacity and source 66 Policy 18: Recycled and secondary aggregates development 70 Policy 19: Aggregate wharves and rail depots 72 Policy 20: Local land-won aggregates 77 Policy 21: Silica sand development 83 Policy 22: Brick-making clay 85 Policy 23: Chalk development 87 Policy 24: Oil and gas development 89 Policy 25: Sustainable waste management 94 Policy 26: Safeguarding - waste infrastructure 98 Policy 27: Capacity for waste management development 104 Policy 28: Energy recovery development 105 Policy 29: Locations and sites for waste management 107 Policy 30: Construction, demolition and excavation waste development 111 Policy 31: Liquid waste and waste water management 113 Policy 32: Non-hazardous waste landfill 117 Policy 33: Hazardous and Low Level Radioactive Waste development 120 Policy 34: Safeguarding potential minerals and waste wharf and rail depot infrastructure 123 4 Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan - October 2013 (Adopted) Foreword Hampshire has some of the most beautiful countryside and coastline in the United Kingdom – one of the reasons so many choose to live here. Hampshire County Council, Portsmouth City Council, Southampton City Council, New Forest National Park Authority and the South Downs National Park Authority (the 'Hampshire Authorities') have produced the Hampshire, Portsmouth, Southampton, New Forest National Park and South Downs National Park Minerals and Waste Plan (the 'Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan') in partnership. As the partner Hampshire minerals and waste planning authorities we must strike a careful balance between any potential impact on the environment and our communities, while supporting our future prosperity. Although Hampshire has a strong economy we cannot take this for granted. To support economic growth, we need to ensure we can maintain a reliable source of minerals and manage our waste effectively and efficiently, whilst protecting the environment and our communities. We need minerals such as sand and gravel to build and repair our homes and roads and they are also important for the local economy. Sand and gravel (aggregates) cannot practicably be transported very far and must be dredged from the sea or dug out of the ground where they are found. Although we are already good at using recycled materials for building and repairing our homes, roads and infrastructure, we still need a reliable source of sand, gravel and other minerals for our future prosperity. Some of these have to be from local quarries. Waste is another important issue we need to manage. Everyone produces things that need to be disposed of, although the amount of waste we produce is going down, we have to find ways of dealing with our waste that will have as little impact on the environment and communities as possible. All minerals and waste developments require planning permission from one of the partner minerals and waste planning authorities and often an environmental permit from the Environment Agency. These consents protect communities and the environment from many of the negative effects of development. They also ensure proper restoration of quarries to agriculture or open space and improved opportunities for recreation or biodiversity. Most new waste facilities are located in industrial areas, which means they affect limited numbers of residents and minimise such development in our green areas. Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan - October 2013 (Adopted) 5 The Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan (the 'Plan') will ensure that we have enough minerals for Hampshire’s needs and can deal with our waste effectively to 2030. This includes using waste material that cannot be reused or recycled as a renewable energy resource in homes and businesses. The Hampshire Authorities' overriding concern is to ensure that any mineral or waste proposal is the right development, in the right place, at the right time. Councillor Seán Woodward - Executive Member for Economy, Transport and Environment - Hampshire County Council Councillor Mike Hancock (MP) - Executive Member for Planning, Regeneration and Economic Development - Portsmouth City Council Councillor Simon Letts - Leader - Southampton City Council Julian Johnson - Chairman - New Forest National Park Authority Margaret Paren - Chair - South Downs National Park Authority 6 Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan - October 2013 (Adopted) 1. Introduction 1.1 Hampshire County Council, Portsmouth City Council, Southampton City Council, the New Forest National Park Authority and the South Downs National Park Authority, as the minerals and waste planning authorities in Hampshire (the 'Hampshire Authorities'), have chosen to work together to produce a plan for all minerals and waste development in Hampshire. This is the Hampshire, Portsmouth, Southampton, New Forest National Park and South Downs National Park Minerals and Waste Plan (hereafter referred to as the 'Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan' or the 'Plan') and forms part of the development plan for Hampshire. The Plan covers the administrative areas of the Hampshire Authorities (Hampshire). However, the Plan covers only the part of the South Downs National Park that is in Hampshire. In preparing this Plan, the Hampshire Authorities have also worked with the local planning authorities in Hampshire as well as the adjacent minerals and waste planning authorities. This ensures that the Plan reflects and supports other plans and programmes for the area. These include other local development plan documents, community strategies and specific policy strategies, such as the local transport plans, along with low-carbon and energy strategies. 1.2 The Plan area and the Hampshire Authorities administrative area is shown in Figure 1. Figure 1 - The Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan area and Hampshire Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan - October 2013 (Adopted) 7 1.3 The Hampshire Authorities have set out a vision, objectives and Spatial Strategy (as set out in the 2. 'Vision and Spatial Strategy') and policies in the Plan to enable the delivery of sustainable minerals and waste development that is right for Hampshire up to 2030 (the Plan period is from 1 January 2011 to 31 March 2030). In other words, it explains how mineral resources should be extracted and supplied as well as the necessary waste management infrastructure needed so that Hampshire’s environment will be protected, its communities maintained and the local economy supported. 1.4 The Plan replaces the Hampshire Minerals & Waste Core Strategy (the 'Core Strategy')
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