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SWAWP South West Aggregates Working Party Annual Report: 2014 Bath and North East Somerset • Bristol • Bournemouth Cornwall • Dartmoor NP • Devon • Dorset • Exmoor NP Gloucestershire • Isles of Scilly • North Somerset • Plymouth • Poole • Somerset South Gloucestershire • Swindon • Torbay • Wiltshire SWAWP South West Aggregates Working Party Annual Report: 2014 Bath and North East Somerset ● Bristol ● Bournemouth ● Cornwall ● Dartmoor NP ● Devon ● Dorset ● Exmoor NP ● Gloucestershire ● Isles of Scilly ● North Somerset ● Plymouth ● Poole ● Somerset ● South Gloucestershire ● Swindon ● Torbay ● Wiltshire Annual Report 2014 SWAWP Chairman: Andy Hill Principal Planning Officer Minerals and Waste Devon County Council County Hall Topsham Road Exeter Devon EX2 4QD Tel: (01392) 383510 Email: [email protected] Secretary: Julia Webberley 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 Page 2 of 46 2429 December 2016 Annual Report 2014 SWAWP CONTENTS: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ..................................................................................................................................... 4 1. INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................... 6 2. NATIONAL AND SUB NATIONAL MINERALS PLANNING............................................................................ 8 3. LOCAL AGGREGATES ASSESSMENTS ...................................................................................................... 10 4. SALES AND LANDBANKS OF CRUSHED ROCK AND LAND-WON AND MARINE DREDGED SAND AND GRAVEL ................................................................................................................................................. 13 5. SECONDARY AND RECYCLED AGGREGATES ............................................................................................ 25 6. SIGNIFICANT TRENDS AND EVENTS (BY MINERAL PLANNING AUTHORITY) ........................................... 28 7. PROGRESS ON MINERALS DEVELOPMENT PLANS (AS AT JULY 2016) .................................................... 32 APPENDICES: Appendix 1 – Membership of the Working Party Appendix 2 – Active and Inactive Land-Won and Secondary Aggregate Sites 2014 Appendix 3 – Recycled Aggregate Sites 2014 David Jarvis Associates Limited Page 3 of 46 2429 December 2016 Annual Report 2014 SWAWP EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This annual report for 2014 has been prepared by the South West Aggregates Working Party (SWAWP), previously known as the South West Regional Aggregates Working Party (SWRAWP). 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 2014 with data for earlier years. In June 2009, the Department for Communities and Local Government 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 (March 2012) (“NPPF”) and Planning Practice Guidance (which replaced the 2012 Guidance on the Managed Aggregate Supply System) indicates that the guideline amounts are to be taken into account by Mineral Planning Authorities (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 Local Aggregates Assessment 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. Crushed Rock Sales of crushed rock aggregates (limestone, igneous rock and sandstone) totalled 21.62mt in 2014, a reasonable increase on 2013 (17.89mt). Somerset continues to be the main vendor with almost 58% of sales. Permitted reserves in the region in 2014 amounted to about 877mt at active and inactive sites. This represented a landbank of about 46 years when based on the average of three years’ sales (2012- 2014) and almost 45 years when based on the average of 10 years’ sales (2005-2014). All crushed rock producing MPAs except Gloucestershire had a substantial landbank of permitted reserves (>30 years) in 2014 when based on either the 3 or 10 year sales’ averages. Approximately 46% 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 2014, sales of land won sand and gravel in the region totalled 3.34mt, a slight increase on 2013 when the total was 3.2mt. Dorset continued to be the main production area, accounting for almost 52% of sales. Permitted reserves in the region at the end of 2014 were 31.15mt, a slight fall on 2013 when reserves stood at 32.6mt. Based on the average of 10 years’ sales, this represents a landbank of David Jarvis Associates Limited Page 4 of 46 2429 December 2016 Annual Report 2014 SWAWP 8.46 years (compared with 8.57 years at the end of 2013). Just under 50% of the South West’s reserves were held at sites in Dorset. From having the lowest sales figure of the sand and gravel producing regions in the South West in 2013, Wiltshire had the second highest sales’ figure in 2014, whilst Gloucestershire had the lowest with a reduction in sales from 0.68mt in 2013 to just 0.43mt in 2014. Wiltshire continues to have the lowest landbank (of the sand and gravel producing regions in the south west) although this increased slightly between 2013 and 2014 from 3.23 years to 4.0 years following the grant of two permissions which generated additional reserves of 0.56mt. Marine Dredged Sand and Gravel In 2014, marine dredged landings to English wharves in the South West, mainly sand dredged from licensed areas in the Bristol Channel, amounted to 0.54mt, an increase on the amount landed in 2013 (0.497mt). Avonmouth in Bristol continued to be the main wharf where 0.382mt were landed. Between 2013 and 2014 landings at Avonmouth increased by about 13%. David Jarvis Associates Limited Page 5 of 46 2429 December 2016 Annual Report 2014 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 production of aggregates in the South West during 2014 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. Production and reserves information has generally been supplied by industry but in some instances estimates may have been made by the MPAs. 1.2 Information is generally presented in a similar format to that used in previous annual reports in order to facilitate comparison of statistical data, but where necessary figures are combined or excluded to avoid disclosure of confidential information. Although longstanding confidentiality restrictions were lifted by the then Quarry Products Association (QPA) towards the end of 1999 to facilitate the publication of much more data than previously reported, clarification of the way in which operators’ information can be used has since been issued by the Association’s successor, the Mineral Products Association. In addition, not all companies belong to the Mineral Products Association and therefore some information remains confidential. Moreover, some members of the Mineral Products Association insist that their information should be treated as confidential. Confidential information is therefore annotated accordingly. Wherever possible, time series information is presented to provide an indication of trends. 1.3 Membership of SWAWP is shown in Appendix 1 of the report. The Working Party is one of 9 Aggregates Working Parties (AWPs) in England and 2 in Wales whose membership is drawn from MPAs, the aggregates industry (represented by individual companies as well as the Mineral Products Association and the British Aggregates Association (BAA)), the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), the Environment Agency and the National Federation of Demolition Contractors (NFDC). Whilst each of the MPAs is automatically a member of SWAWP and entitled to attend meetings not all of them do so because of limited mineral interest, and, in such cases, arrangements have been made with other member authorities to represent them as necessary. 1.4 Aggregates Working Parties were established by the then Department of the Environment in the early 1970s to identify and consider likely problems in the supply