North East Region Aggregates Working Party NORTH EAST REGION ANNUAL AGGREGATES MONITORING REPORT 2005 Produced by Northumberland County Council on behalf of the North East Region Aggregates Working Party North East Region Aggregates Working Party ANNUAL AGGREGATES MONITORING REPORT 2005 This report has been prepared by the North East Region Aggregates Working Party It presents statistical information on sales and reserves of aggregate minerals in the North East Region for the year 2005. This report also briefly describes the activities of the North East Region Working Party since 1 January 2005. Chairman: Mr Gordon Halliday Divisional Director Consumer Protection, Planning and Waste Management Secretary: Mrs Frances Wilkinson Senior Minerals and Waste Policy Officer Minerals, Waste and Development Control Northumberland County Council Community and Environmental Services Directorate County Hall Morpeth Northumberland NE61 2EF Telephone: 01670 534064 Fax: 01670 533409 October 2007 North East Region Annual Aggregates Monitoring Report Aggregates Working Party i 2005 CONTENTS Page 1. Introduction 1 2. Guidelines for Aggregate Provision 4 3. Sand and Gravel 6 4. Crushed Rock 13 5 Secondary Aggregates 18 6. Planning Applications 20 7. Development Plans 21 APPENDICES 1. List of Aggregates Sites included in Monitoring Report 24 2. North East Region Aggregates Working Party: List of Members 25 3. Developments that impact on regional demand for aggregates 27 4. North East Region Aggregates Working Party: Published Reports 28 5. Geological and Mineral Planning Research 29 North East Region Annual Aggregates Monitoring Report Aggregates Working Party ii 2005 1. INTRODUCTION The North East Region Aggregates Working Party 1.1 This report has been prepared by the North East Region Aggregates Working Party (NERAWP). The North East Region Aggregates Working Party is one of a number of similar working parties throughout England and Wales established in the 1970s in order to collect data on the production of aggregates, the reserves covered by valid planning permissions and the landbanks of reserves. The area covered by the North East Region Aggregates Working Party is consistent with that of the North East Planning Region and encompasses the County Durham, Northumberland, Tees Valley and Tyne and Wear sub-regions (Figure 1). Figure 1: The North East Region 1.2 The membership of the North East Region Aggregates Working Party is drawn from Mineral Planning Authorities in the region, the Department for Communities and Local Government, Government Office for the North East, the North East Assembly and the aggregates industry. The Northumberland National Park Authority is represented by Northumberland County Council, the Tyne and Wear Authorities are represented by Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland Councils and the Tees Valley Authorities are represented by the Tees Valley Joint Strategy Unit. The current membership of the North East Region Aggregates Working Party is detailed in Appendix 2. North East Region Annual Aggregates Monitoring Report Aggregates Working Party 1 2005 1.3 The North East Region Aggregates Working Party was formally known as the Northern Region Aggregates Working Party and included Cumbria and the Lake District National Park. Cumbria County Council and the Lake District National Park Authority transferred to the North West Region Aggregates Working Party on 1 April 1999 to allow the Regional Aggregates Working Parties to cover the same areas as the Regional Planning Bodies. Information for Cumbria and the Lake District National Park is not included in any figures in this report since 1998. Annual Monitoring Report 2005 1.4 This report includes the results of the Aggregates Monitoring Survey 2005 (AM2005), presenting information on land and marine won aggregate production and reserves in the North East Region for 2005. Information relating to the use of secondary aggregates, progress of development plans, planning applications, construction industry activity, and mineral review applications is also provided. 1.5 The Aggregates Monitoring Survey 2005 was part of a comprehensive national survey undertaken every four years by the Department for the Communities and Local Government. For the years in between, the North East Region Aggregates Working Party undertakes a regional survey in order to keep the information up-to-date. Detailed information on the earlier monitoring surveys can be found in previous Aggregates Working Party reports (see Appendix 4). North East Region Aggregates Working Party Meetings 1.6 The North East Region Aggregates Working Party has met twice since 1 January 2005. The main topics of discussion at the meetings were: • The Annual Aggregates Monitoring Report; • Environmental appraisal of the guideline aggregates figures; • The consultation on Minerals Policy Statement 1; • The implications of the Freedom of Information Act; and • Updates of progress on Minerals Development Frameworks, the Regional Spatial Strategy and research relating to aggregates. North East Region Annual Aggregates Monitoring Report Aggregates Working Party 2 2005 1.7 The programme of work during 2005 included the organisation of the monitoring survey of primary aggregates sales and reserves and planning applications in conjunction with the British Geological Survey, who where commissioned to undertake the national primary aggregates survey on behalf Department for Communities and Local Government. The results of this survey are published in this report. North East Region Annual Aggregates Monitoring Report Aggregates Working Party 3 2005 2. GUIDELINES FOR AGGREGATE PROVISION National and Regional Guidelines for Aggregate Provision 2.1 Revised national and regional guidelines for aggregates provision in England for the 16-year period from 2001 to 2016 were published in June 2003 (Table 2.1). The guidelines for land won production in the North East Region from 2001 to 2016 are 20 million tonnes of sand and Gravel and 119 million tonnes of Crushed Rock. The guidelines assume that 9 million tonnes of sand and gravel will be provided from marine-dredged sources and that 76 million tonnes of aggregate supply will be met from alternative materials in the North East Region. Table 2.1: National and Regional Guidelines for Aggregates Provision in England, 2001 to 2016 (million tonnes) Guidelines for Land- Assumptions won Production Sand and Crushed Marine- Alternative Net Gravel Rock dredged Materials Imports to Sand and England Gravel South East 212 35 120 118 85 London 19 0 53 82 6 East of England 256 8 32 110 8 East Midlands 165 523 0 95 0 West Midlands 162 93 0 88 16 South West 106 453 9 121 4 North West 55 167 4 101 50 Yorkshire Humber 73 220 3 128 0 North East 20 119 9 76 0 England 1068 1618 230 919 169 Source: Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (2003) North East Region Annual Aggregates Monitoring Report Aggregates Working Party 4 2005 Sub-regional Apportionment 2.2 To take the national and regional guidelines into account in the planning process the guidelines need to be broken down, as far as possible, into Mineral Planning Authority areas. The apportionment of these guidelines to sub-regional areas is the responsibility of the North East Assembly, taking into account advice from the North East Region Aggregates Working Party and the Mineral Planning Authorities. The sub-regional apportionment agreed by the North East Assembly in January 2004 is set out in Table 2.2. Table 2.2: Sub-regional Apportionment for Aggregates Provision in the North East Region, 2001 to 2016 (million tonnes) Crushed Rock Sand and Gravel Durham 75.8 6.1 Northumberland 36.4 11.1 Tees Valley 2.2 0.16 Tyne and Wear 4.6 2.7 North East Region 119 20 North East Region Annual Aggregates Monitoring Report Aggregates Working Party 5 2005 3. SAND AND GRAVEL Overview 3.1 This Chapter sets out information on sales and permitted reserves of sand and gravel in the North East Region. Sand and Gravel Sales 3.2 Table 3.1 provides information on sales of land-won and marine-dredged sand and gravel from quarries and wharfs in the North East Region in 2005. The production information for Tees Valley has been combined with the information for County Durham for reasons of confidentiality. Table 3.1: Sales of Land Won and Marine Dredged Sand and Gravel, 2005 (tonnes) Land Won Marine Dredged Durham 431,428† 0 Tees Valley # * Northumberland 576,228 0 Tyne and Wear 352,652 * North East Region 1,360,308 1,139,801 Notes: * Confidential Figure included in regional figure # Confidential figure included in Durham figure † Includes sales figures for Tees Valley for reasons of confidentiality 3.3 Table 3.2 and Table 3.3 gives a comparison of sand and gravel sales in 2005 with the sales from previous years for land-won sand and gravel and marine- dredged sand and gravel respectively. 3.4 Sales of land-won sand and gravel in the region increased by around 45,000 tonnes in 2005 (Table 3.2) and have increased steadily across the region since 2001. This reflected an increase in sales in Durham and Tees Valley and Tyne and Wear. However, sales in Northumberland during 2005 North East Region Annual Aggregates Monitoring Report Aggregates Working Party 6 2005 decreased in comparison to sales during 2004. This was due to a site in County ceasing extraction during 2005. Table 3.2: Production of Land Won Sand and Gravel 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 (thousand tonnes) 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Durham 461† 322† 283† 395† 431† Northumberland 556 582 610 638 576 Tees Valley * * * * * Tyne and Wear 162 215 312 282 353 North East Region 1,179 1,119 1,205 1,315 1,360 Notes: * Confidential figure included in Durham figure † Includes sales figures for Tees Valley 3.4 Sales of sand and gravel from marine-dredged sources decreased slightly from 1,110,000 tonnes in 2004 to 1,049,000 tonnes in 2005 (Table 3.3).