Annual Monitoring Report 2013 1 Executive Summary Cheshire The North West Aggregate Working Party (NWAWP) is one of nine similar working parties throughout England and Wales established in the 1970's, the core functions of which are set out in the. The W est membership of the North West AWP is detailed in Appendix B and is illustrated in Map 1.1. and The Annual Monitoring report AM2013 represents the twentieth annual report and provides sales and Chester reserve data for the calendar years 2011 and 2012. The report provides data for each of the five sub-regions of Cheshire East; Cheshire West and Chester; Cumbria; Greater Manchester, Merseyside Council and Warrington; and Lancashire as illustrated in Map 1.2. North W est Aggregate W orking Party - AM2013 Executive Summary 2 Cheshire Map .1 North West Aggregate Working Party authorities 2011 - 2012 W est and Chester Council North W est Aggregate W orking Party - AM2013 © Crown copyright and database rights 2012. Ordnance Survey 100049046. 2012. 3 Map .2 North West Aggregate Working Party sub-regions 2011 - 2012 Cheshire W est and Chester Council North W est Aggregate W orking Party - AM2013 © Crown copyright and database rights 2012. Ordnance Survey 100049046. 2012. Contents Cheshire 1 North West 5 2 Cheshire East and Cheshire West and Chester 9 W est 3 Cumbria 19 and 4 Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Warrington 30 Chester 5 Lancashire 40 Council 6 Marine dredged aggregate 49 North Appendices W est A North West AWP membership 53 Aggregate B Acronyms 59 W C Glossary 60 orking Party - AM2013 5 1 North West Cheshire 1.1 Tables 1.1 to 1.4 provide an overview of sales, reserve and landbank figures for aggregate crushed rock and sand and gravel across the north west region for the AM2011 and AM2012 monitoring periods W est (1 January 2011 to 31 December 2012). and 1.2 During the 2011 monitoring period total aggregate sales fell by 16.2% from 8.84mt in 2010 to Chester 7.4mt. Total aggregate reserves decreased by 12.5% from 378.03mt to 330.79mt as at 31 December 2011. Council 1.3 During the 2012 monitoring period total aggregate sales increased by 8.5% to 8.03mt. Total aggregate reserves also increased slightly to 331.71mt as at 31 December 2012. North 1.4 Sales of crushed rock aggregate fell by 15.8% from 6.27mt in 2010 to 5.28mt in 2011. Sales of W limestone and sandstone and igneous rock also fell during the monitoring period by 16.3% and 20.8% est respectively. Sales of High Specification Aggregate (HSA) increased marginally by 1.7% from 0.59mt Aggregate in 2010 to 0.60mt in 2011. 1.5 During the 2012 monitoring period sales of crushed rock aggregate increased by 9.8% to 5.8mt. W Sales of limestone and sandstone and igneous rock both increased during the monitoring period by orking 4.1% and 33% respectively. Sales of HSA fell by 8.3% from 0.6mt in 2011 to 0.55mt. Party 1.6 Reserves of crushed rock aggregate fell by 12.9% from 341.86mt in 2010 to 295.46mt as at 31 - December 2011. In line with sales patterns for the monitoring period reserves of limestone and sandstone AM2013 and igneous rock also fell by 5.2% and 24.7% respectively. Reserves of HSA increased slightly by 4.9% 13.16mt in 2010 to 13.8mt as at 31 December 2011. 1.7 As at 31 December 2012 reserves of crushed rock aggregate were 1.5% lower than during the 2011 monitoring period. Reserves of both limestone and HSA fell during the 2012 monitoring period by 3.7% and 0.7% respectively, whilst reserves of sandstone and igneous rock increased by 3.3%. 1.8 Total sand and gravel aggregate sales fell by 17.5% from 2.57mt in 2010 to 2.12mt in 2011. Sales of both land-won and marine dredged aggregate sand and gravel fell during the monitoring period 2011 by 18.3% and 10.7% respectively. Reserves of aggregate sand and gravel fell by 2.3% from 36.17mt in 2010 to 35.33mt as at 31 December 2011. 1.9 Aggregate sand and gravel sales increased during the 2012 monitoring period by 8.9% from 2.12mt in 2011 to 2.23mt. Sales of land-won aggregate sand and gravel increased by 7.5% whilst sales of marine dredged aggregate sand and gravel continued to fall by 12% from 0.25mt in 2011 to 0.22mt. Reserves of aggregate sand and gravel also increased by 8.5% during the monitoring period from 35.33mt in 2011 to 38.61mt as at 31 December 2012. 1.10 Landbanks for both aggregate crushed rock and land-won aggregate sand and gravel are provided in Tables 1.1 and 1.2. 1 North West 6 Cheshire Table 1.1 North west aggregate landbank as at 31 December 2011 Aggregate Landbank as at Reserves as at Annual apportionment Landbank as at 31.12.2010(years) 31.12.2011 (mt) requirement 2005-2020 31.12.2011 (years) W est (mt) and Crushed rock 31.48 years 295.46mt 9.62mt 30.7years Chester Land-won sand and 12.18 years 35.33mt 3.26mt 10.8 years gravel Council Table 1.2 North west aggregate landbank as at 31 December 2012 North Aggregate Landbank as at Reserves as at Annual apportionment Landbank as at 31.12.2011(years) 31.12.2012 (mt) requirement 2005-2020 31.12.2012 (years) W (mt) est Aggregate Crushed rock 30.7 years 293.1mt 9.62mt 30.5 years Land-won sand and 10.8 years 38.61mt 3.26mt 11.8 years gravel W orking Party - AM2013 Table 1.3 North west aggregate sales 1997-2012 (million tonnes) Monitoring AM97 AM98 AM99 AM00 AM01 AM02 AM03 AM04 AM05 AM06 AM07 AM08 AM09 AM10 AM11 AM12 period Crushed rock Limestone 6.5 5.9 6.0 6.1 5.6 5.6 5.2 5.5 5.1 5.3 5.8 5.18 3.77 4.05 3.39 3.53 Sandstone and igneous 5.06 4.9 4.58 4.2 4.5 4.6 4.12 3.95 2.79 2.86 2.92 2.09 1.34 1.63 1.29 1.72 rock High Specification ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 0.74 0.69 0.7 0.75 0.78 0.59 0.60 0.55 Aggregate (HSA) Total crushed 11.56 10.8 10.58 10.3 10.1 10.2 9.32 9.45 8.63 8.85 9.42 8.02 5.89 6.27 5.28 5.80 rock sales Sand and gravel Land-won sand and 4.72 4.16 4.1 3.78 3.1 3.2 3.36 2.84 3.06 2.97 3.0 2.69 2.18 2.29 1.87 2.01 gravel Marine dredge sand 0.25 0.23 0.29 0.29 0.46 0.50 0.47 0.6 0.66 0.64 0.66 0.44 0.32 0.28 0.25 0.22 and gravel Total sand and gravel 4.97 4.39 4.39 4.07 3.56 3.70 3.83 3.44 3.72 3.61 3.66 3.13 2.50 2.57 2.12 2.23 sales Total Aggregate sales Total aggregate 16.53 15.19 14.97 14.37 13.66 13.9 13.15 12.89 12.35 12.46 13.08 11.15 8.39 8.84 7.40 8.03 sales AM2013 - Party orking W Aggregate est W North Council Chester and est W Cheshire 7 1 AM2013 - Party orking W Aggregate est W North Council Chester and est W Cheshire 8 Table 1.4 North west aggregate reserves 1997-2012 (million tonnes) Monitoring AM97 AM98 AM99 AM00 AM01 AM02 AM03 AM04 AM05 AM06 AM07 AM08 AM09 AM10 AM11 AM12 period North Crushed rock Limestone 185.4 151.1 168.6 170.8 159.9 161.3 156.7 150.8 148.2 174.7 173.9 162.65 171.53 175.4 166.3 160.2 W Sandstone est and igneous 215.4 196.65 191.9 179.3 172.8 166.6 158.9 168.4 143.1 155.3 153.2 141.1 138.6 153.3 115.36 119.2 rock High Specification ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 9.85 9.55 19.0 18.2 17.26 13.16 13.8 13.7 Aggregate (HSA) Total crushed 400.8 347.8 360.5 350.01 332.7 327.9 315.6 319.2 301.2 339.6 346.1 321.95 327.39 341.86 295.46 293.1 rock reserves Sand and gravel reserves Land-won sand and 49.7 46.64 46.27 43.2 47.9 47.3 41.34 39.24 43.02 45.59 38.7 45.97 41.77 36.17 35.33 38.61 gravel Total sand and gravel 49.7 46.64 46.27 43.2 47.9 47.3 41.34 39.24 43.02 45.59 38.7 45.97 41.77 36.17 35.33 38.61 reserves Total Aggregate reserves Total aggregate 450.5 394.39 406.77 393.3 380.6 375.2 356.9 358.6 343.5 385.1 384.8 367.88 369.16 378.03 330.79 331.71 reserves 9 2 Cheshire East and Cheshire West and Chester Cheshire 2.1 During the 2011 and 2012 monitoring periods data was collected for the two separate sub-regions of Cheshire East and Cheshire West and Chester.