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Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan (Adopted October 2013) H A M P S H I R E PORTSMOUTH, SOUTHAMPTON, NEW FOREST & SOUTH DOWNS MINERALS AND WASTE PLAN For adoption by the partner authorities at Full Council / Authority meetings (September – October 2013) All Plans reproduced within this document meet copyright of the data suppliers Ordnance Survey on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationary Office © Crown copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown copyright and may lead to prosecution of civil proceedings. HCC 100019180 2012. © Environment Agency Copyright 2012. All rights reserved. Reproduced from the British Geological Survey Map data at the original scale of 1:100,000. Licence 2008/202 British Geological Survey. © NERC. All rights reserved. Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan (Adopted October 2013) 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 22 3 Sustainable minerals and waste development 24 4 Protecting Hampshire's Environment 27 Climate change 28 Habitats and species 29 Landscape and countryside 32 South West Hampshire Green Belt 35 Heritage 37 Soils 38 Restoration of quarries and waste developments 40 5 Maintaining Hampshire's Communities 44 Protecting public health, safety and amenity 45 Flooding - risk and prevention 47 Managing traffic impacts 48 Design, construction and operation of minerals and waste development 50 Community benefits 52 6 Supporting Hampshire's Economy 54 Safeguarding mineral resources 56 Safeguarding mineral infrastructure 58 Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan (Adopted October 2013) Aggregate supply 61 Recycled and secondary aggregates 66 Aggregate wharves and rail depots 67 Local land-won extraction (sand & gravel) 71 Other minerals 77 Silica Sand 77 Clay 79 Chalk 82 Oil and gas 82 Sustainable waste management 86 Providing for waste management 91 Safeguarding waste infrastructure 92 Waste management requirements 94 Energy recovery development 99 Locating waste management development 100 Construction, demolition and excavation wastes 103 Liquid waste and waste water management 106 Non-hazardous waste landfill 108 Specialist waste management 111 Safeguarding potential minerals and waste wharf and rail depot infrastructure 114 7 Implementation, Monitoring and Plan Review 117 8 Glossary and Abbreviations 119 Appendix A - Site allocations 132 Appendix B - List of safeguarded minerals and waste sites 161 Appendix C - Implementation and Monitoring Plan 177 Appendix D - Relationship between HMWP policies and previously 216 adopted policies Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan (Adopted October 2013) Appendix E - Supporting documents 219 Policies Map 221 List of Policies Policy 1: Sustainable minerals and waste development 24 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 37 Policy 8: Protection of soils 39 Policy 9: Restoration of quarries and waste developments 40 Policy 10: Protecting public health, safety and amenity 45 Policy 11: Flood risk and prevention 48 Policy 12: Managing traffic 49 Policy 13: High-quality design of minerals and waste development 50 Policy 14: Community benefits 52 Policy 15: Safeguarding - mineral resources 56 Policy 16: Safeguarding - minerals infrastructure 59 Policy 17: Aggregate supply – capacity and source 63 Policy 18: Recycled and secondary aggregates development 67 Policy 19: Aggregate wharves and rail depots 68 Policy 20: Local land-won aggregates 73 Policy 21: Silica sand development 78 Policy 22: Brick-making clay 80 Policy 23: Chalk development 82 Policy 24: Oil and gas development 83 Policy 25: Sustainable waste management 89 Policy 26: Safeguarding - waste infrastructure 92 Policy 27: Capacity for waste management development 98 Policy 28: Energy recovery development 99 Policy 29: Locations and sites for waste management 101 Policy 30: Construction, demolition and excavation (CDE) waste development 105 Policy 31: Liquid waste and waste water management 107 Policy 32: Non-hazardous waste landfill 110 Policy 33: Hazardous and low level radioactive waste 113 Policy 34: Safeguarding potential minerals and waste wharf and rail depot infrastructure 115 4 Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan (Adopted October 2013) 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, Southampton City Council, Portsmouth City Council, New Forest National Park Authority and the South Downs National Park Authority (the 'Hampshire Authorities') have produced 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, while 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 mineral 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 fewer residents and reduce such development in our green areas. 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. Our overriding concern is to ensure that any mineral or waste proposal is the right development, in the right place, at the right time. [add signature] Councillor Sean Woodward Executive Member for Economy, Transport and Environment - Hampshire County Council [add signature] Councillor [add] Executive Member for [add]- Southampton City Council [add signature] Councillor [add] Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan (Adopted October 2013) 5 Executive Member for [add]- Portsmouth City Council [add signature] Councillor [add] Executive Member for [add]- New Forest National Park Authority [add signature] Councillor [add] Executive Member for [add]- South Downs National Park Authority 6 Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan (Adopted October 2013) 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 Minerals and Waste Plan (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 the following map (Figure 1 'The Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan area and Hampshire Authorities administrative areas '). Figure 1 The Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan area and Hampshire Authorities administrative areas Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan (Adopted October 2013) 7 1.3 In this Plan the Hampshire Authorities have set out a Vision, Objectives, Spatial Strategy and policies 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
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