Core Strategy and Minerals and Waste Development Management Policies Development Plan Document 2010-2026
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Norfolk Minerals and Waste Development Framework Core Strategy and Minerals and Waste Development Management Policies Development Plan Document 2010-2026 Adopted September 2011 Norfolk County Council Norfolk Minerals and Waste Local Development Framework Core Strategy and Minerals and Waste Development Management Policies Development Plan Document 2010 - 2026 September 2011 M. Jackson Director of Environment, Transport and Development Norfolk County Council Martineau Lane Norwich NR1 2SG www.norfolk.gov.uk If you need this document in large print, audio, Braille, an alternative format or in a different language please contact Norfolk County Council on 0344 800 8020 or 0344 8008011 (textphone) and we will do our best to help. TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .................................................................................... 5 1. THE MINERALS AND WASTE DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK ................. 9 2. NORFOLK SPATIAL PORTRAIT ................................................................ 13 3. KEY DATA, ASSUMPTIONS AND PROJECTIONS ................................... 21 4. FUTURE WASTE MANAGEMENT CAPACITY NEEDS ............................. 29 5. VISIONS, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ........................................................... 34 6. SPATIAL STRATEGY ................................................................................. 40 POLICY CS1 – Minerals extraction ................................................................ 41 POLICY CS2 – General locations for mineral extraction and associated facilities ........................................................................................................... 42 POLICY CS3 – Waste management capacity to be provided ...................... 45 POLICY CS4 – New waste management capacity to be provided .............. 46 POLICY CS5 – General location of waste management facilities ............... 48 POLICY CS6 – General waste management considerations ....................... 50 POLICY CS7 – Recycling, composting, anaerobic digestion and waste transfer stations .............................................................................................. 52 POLICY CS8 – Residual waste treatment facilities ...................................... 53 POLICY CS9 – Inert waste landfill ................................................................. 54 POLICY CS10 – Non-hazardous and hazardous waste landfill ................... 55 POLICY CS11 – Waste water/sewage infrastructure and treatment facilities .......................................................................................................................... 56 POLICY CS12 – Whitlingham Waste Water treatment works ...................... 58 POLICY CS13 – Climate change and renewable energy generation .......... 59 POLICY CS14 – Environmental protection ................................................... 61 POLICY CS15 - Transport ............................................................................... 63 POLICY CS16 – Safeguarding mineral and waste sites and mineral resources ......................................................................................................... 65 POLICY CS17 – Use of secondary and recycled aggregates ...................... 67 7. DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT POLICIES ............................................. 71 POLICY DM1 – Nature conservation ............................................................. 72 POLICY DM2 – Core river valleys .................................................................. 73 POLICY DM3 – Groundwater and surface water .......................................... 74 POLICY DM4 – Flood risk ............................................................................... 76 POLICY DM5 – Borrow pits and agricultural or potable water reservoirs . 78 POLICY DM6 – Household waste recycling centres .................................... 77 POLICY DM7 – Safeguarding aerodromes .................................................... 79 POLICY DM8 – Design, local landscape and townscape character ............ 81 POLICY DM9 – Archaeological sites ............................................................. 82 3 POLICY DM10 - Transport .............................................................................. 84 POLICY DM11 – Sustainable construction and operations ......................... 85 POLICY DM12 - Amenity ................................................................................. 86 POLICY DM13 – Air quality ............................................................................ 87 POLICY DM14 – Progressive working, restoration and after-use ............... 88 POLICY DM15 – Cumulative impacts ............................................................ 89 POLICY DM16 - Soils ...................................................................................... 90 8. MONITORING AND IMPLEMENTATION .................................................... 91 KEY DIAGRAM ................................................................................................ 69 APPENDICES Appendix A: FORECAST WASTE QUANTITIES FOR NORFOLK .............. 103 Appendix B: MINOR DEVELOPMENT AND SEWAGE/SLUDGE FACILITIES ........................................................................................................................ 106 Appendix C: SAFEGUARDING CONSULTATION PROCEDURE ................ 107 Appendix D: REPLACEMNT OF SAVED LOCAL PLAN POLICIES ............ 108 Appendix E: ENVIRONMENT AGENCY INDICATIVE RESPONSES TO POTENTIAL NORFOLK LANDFILL LOCATIONS ........................................ 114 Appendix F: GLOSSARY .............................................................................. 116 4 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 0.1 This document, the Norfolk Core Strategy and Minerals and Waste Development Management Policies Development Plan Document (DPD), runs for a 17-year period from 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2026, as required by Planning Policy Statement 12: Local Spatial Planning (PPS12), to enable the time period of the Core Strategy to be 15 years from the date of adoption. This document is described throughout as the ‘Core Strategy’. 0.2 The Core Strategy, along with the Proposals Map, sets out the spatial vision for future mineral extraction and associated development and waste management facilities in Norfolk. It also contains strategic objectives and policies that make clear where, in broad terms, mineral extraction and associated development and waste management facilities should be located in Norfolk, and conversely where they should not be located. It also sets out Development Management policies that will be used to ensure that the development of mineral extraction and associated development and waste management facilities can happen in a sustainable way at those locations assessed as being appropriate for development. When it is adopted it will become part of the Local Development Framework (LDF) for Norfolk. 0.3 The East of England Plan requires Norfolk to accommodate a minimum of 78,700 new homes and plan for an indicative figure of 55,000 new jobs between 2001 and 2021. Related to this, the population is projected to rise to around 969,700 in 2021 (from 798,600 in 2001). The increasing population and the growth Norfolk needs to accommodate will both have major implications for the development of mineral extraction and associated development and waste management facilities. 0.4 Every person produces waste, and the amount produced has been growing over the years, most of which has been sent to landfill. Whilst waste cannot be eliminated, how much is produced, how it is managed, and what can be done with it can – indeed, must – be altered. Managing waste in a more sustainable way, for example by optimising recycling, as well as limiting production of waste, forms a core part of Government policy to protect the environment. Although waste is often thought of as being mainly produced by households, this actually comprises only a small proportion (approximately nine percent) of the waste produced, with much larger amounts generated by businesses, through construction and demolition, and inert waste generated by mineral extraction and associated development. 0.5 Aggregate minerals are the main raw materials used by the construction industry. Aggregates are used in a variety of ways including the production of concrete, road construction and manufactured building products such as concrete blocks, pipes and kerbs. Primary aggregates comprise naturally occurring materials, such as sand and gravel, which are extracted directly from the earth. Secondary aggregates are waste or by-products from minerals processing or other industrial processes, used with or without processing, whereas recycled aggregates are produced from recycled construction waste such as concrete and planings from tarmac road surfaces. Both secondary and recycled aggregates can be used by the construction industry (e.g. for use as sub-base material) but for some uses only primary aggregates are appropriate. 5 0.6 The Core Strategy plans for facilities to manage the waste that is expected to arise and also where to extract the minerals that are needed over the Plan period to the end of 2026. The purpose of the Minerals and Waste Development Framework is to plan for mineral extraction and associated development and waste management facilities in the most sustainable way that minimises adverse impacts on amenity and the environment. 0.7 The overall spatial strategy sets out the locational principles in the form of broad areas where mineral extraction