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SWAWP South West Aggregates Working Party Annual Report: 2018 Bath and North East Somerset • Bristol • Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole Cornwall • Dartmoor NP • Devon • Dorset • Exmoor NP Gloucestershire • Isles of Scilly • North Somerset • Plymouth • Somerset South Gloucestershire • Swindon • Torbay • Wiltshire SWAWP South West Aggregates Working Party Annual Report: 2018 Bath and North East Somerset ● Bristol ● Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole ● Cornwall ● Dartmoor NP ● Devon ● Dorset ● Exmoor NP ● Gloucestershire ● Isles of Scilly ● North Somerset ● Plymouth ● Somerset ● South Gloucestershire ● Swindon ● Torbay ● Wiltshire Annual Report 2018 SWAWP Chair: Ellie Inglis-Woolcock Principal Development Officer Cornwall Council 3B Pydar House Pydar Street Truro TR1 1XU Tel: (01872) 224551 Email: [email protected] Secretary: Julia Webberley Associate David Jarvis Associates Limited 1 Tennyson Street Swindon SN1 5DT Tel: (01793) 612173 Email: [email protected] Enquiries concerning the purchase of this or other SWAWP publications referred to in this report should be addressed to the Secretary of the Working Party. David Jarvis Associates Limited 2 2429 April 2021 Annual Report 2018 SWAWP CONTENTS: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ....................................................................................................................................... 4 1. INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................................... 7 2. NATIONAL AND SUB NATIONAL MINERALS PLANNING ............................................................................. 9 3. LOCAL AGGREGATES ASSESSMENTS ........................................................................................................ 12 4. SALES AND LANDBANKS OF CRUSHED ROCK AND LAND-WON AND MARINE DREDGED SAND AND GRAVEL ................................................................................................................................................... 14 5. SECONDARY AND RECYCLED AGGREGATES ............................................................................................. 27 6. SIGNIFICANT TRENDS AND EVENTS (BY MINERAL PLANNING AUTHORITY) ............................................ 30 7. PROGRESS ON MINERALS DEVELOPMENT PLANS (AS AT MARCH 2021) ................................................ 33 MAP 1: Active and Inactive Primary and Secondary Aggregates Sites 2018 APPENDICES: Appendix 1 – Membership of the Working Party (2021) Appendix 2 – Active and Inactive Land-Won and Secondary Aggregate Sites 2018 Appendix 3 – Recycled Aggregate Sites 2018 David Jarvis Associates Limited 3 2429 April 2021 Annual Report 2018 SWAWP EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This annual report for 2018 has been prepared by the South West Aggregates Working Party (‘SWAWP’) previously known as the South West Regional Aggregates Working Party. As for earlier reports, it contains details of land won aggregates and permitted reserves and of marine dredged aggregates’ landings and resources. Other information on secondary and recycled aggregates and significant trends per region is also provided along with information on planning decisions and progress on local plans. In order to provide an indication of trends, this annual report compares data for 2018 with data for earlier years. It is acknowledged that the data contained within this report is, at the time of publication, somewhat historic. This is a direct result of delays in obtaining raw data from operators which has a consequential impact on the timing and preparation of Local Aggregate Assessments (‘LAAs’) by individual mineral planning authorities. However, this report is required to reflect the findings of individual LAAs which determine an appropriate demand scenario for their relevant mineral planning authority (‘MPA’) area and which it could not do if the annual report were produced before completion of the LAAs. In June 2009, the Department for Communities and Local Government (as it then was) published a revised set of National and Regional Guidelines for the Provision of Aggregates in England 2005- 2020, now called National and Sub-National Guidelines, and these are referred to in this report where appropriate. The National Planning Policy Framework (July 2018) (‘NPPF’) and Planning Practice Guidance (which replaced the 2012 Guidance on the Managed Aggregate Supply System) indicate that these guideline amounts are to be taken into account by MPAs when planning for the future demand for and supply of aggregates. In planning for a steady and adequate supply of aggregates, MPAs are to prepare an annual LAA either individually or, if appropriate, with other MPAs. The guideline amounts are to be used only to provide an indication of the total amount of aggregate provision that the MPAs, collectively within each Aggregate Working Party, should aim to provide. The guidelines will also provide individual MPAs, where they are having difficulty in obtaining data, with some understanding or context of the overall demand and possible sources that might be available in their working party area. It is notable that, particularly in the case of crushed rock, actual sales during 2018 were very close to the amount provided for within the National Guidelines – 24.44 million tonnes (mt) (actual figure) compared with 25.75mt (guideline figure). Crushed Rock Sales of crushed rock aggregates (limestone, igneous rock and sandstone) within the South West totalled 24.44mt in 2018, a small increase on 2017 and 2016 (24.33mt and 23.26mt respectively). Somerset continues to be the main vendor with 63% of sales. Permitted reserves in the region in 2018 amounted to approximately 837.51mt at active and inactive sites. This represents a landbank of just under 35 years when based on the average of three years’ sales (2016-2018) and 41 years when based on the average of 10 years’ sales (2009-2018). All crushed rock producing MPAs except Gloucestershire had a substantial landbank of permitted David Jarvis Associates Limited 4 2429 April 2021 Annual Report 2018 SWAWP reserves in 2018 when based on either the 3 or 10 year sales’ averages, though for the third year running, Somerset’s landbank when based on the 3 year sales’ average remains under 30 years (down to 25.8). Just under 45% of the South West’s permitted reserves were held by sites in Somerset with the bulk of the remaining reserves being shared between Cornwall and the West of England followed by Devon. Land Won Sand and Gravel In 2018, sales of land won sand and gravel in the region totalled 2.94mt, a decrease on 2017 when the total was 3.15mt. Dorset continued to be the main production area, accounting for just over 40% of sales. Permitted reserves in the region at the end of 2018 were 27.76mt, a slight decrease on 2017 when reserves stood at 28.77mt. Based on the average of 10 years’ sales, the total permitted reserves represented a landbank at the end of 2018 of 8.73 years, a slight increase on 2017 when the landbank was 8.72 years. Dorset continued to maintain the highest level of reserves in the region – 13.3mt out of the South West’s total of 27.76mt. Dorset also continued to have the highest sales’ figure for sand and gravel at 1.2mt in 2018, a slight fall in sales compared with the previous year when it was 1.27mt. Sales in both Devon and Gloucestershire were down compared with 2017 (0.54mt compared with 0.6mt in Devon and 0.689mt compared with 0.879mt in Gloucestershire). For Gloucestershire, this represented a downturn after three consecutive years of increased sales – from 0.43mt in 2014 to 0.59mt in 2015, 0.7mt in 2016 and 0.879mt in 2017. Wiltshire continued to have the lowest landbank of the sand and gravel producing regions in the South West standing at 6.02 years but this was a further improvement on the position at the end of 2017 when the landbank was 5.13 years and a significant upturn from 2016 when the landbank was just 2.81 years (all based on the 10 year average sales’ figures). Marine Dredged Sand and Gravel In 2018, marine dredged landings to English wharves in the South West, mainly sand dredged from licensed areas in the Bristol Channel, amounted to 0.72mt, a slight decrease on the amount landed in 2017 (0.76mt). Avonmouth in Bristol continued to be the main wharf where 0.59mt was landed, more or less equivalent to that which was landed there in 2017. David Jarvis Associates Limited 5 2429 April 2021 Annual Report 2018 SWAWP 10-year 3-year 2018 Sales Sales Landbank Change Change Reserves (in remaining (in Sales (compared to Average Average (compared to (in million years based million 2017) (in million (in million 2017) tonnes) on 10-year tonnes) tonnes per tonnes per sales average) annum) annum) All land- won sand 2.94 3.18 3.02 27.76 8.73 and gravel All crushed 24.44 20.38 24.02 837.51 41.1 rock Recycled (data will (data will aggregates emerge in emerge in (from fixed >2.1mt future future sites only) LAAs) LAAs) Marine sand and 0.72mt gravel (0.76mt) David Jarvis Associates Limited 6 2429 April 2021 Annual Report 2018 SWAWP 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 This report is the latest in a series of annual reports that have been published by the Working Party since 1989. The report presents quantitative information on the sales of aggregates in the South West during 2018 and the landbank of permitted reserves at the end of the year. As for previous annual reports, the report also includes information on mineral planning applications and mineral related matters in the South West.