Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) Proposed Extraction of Sand and Gravel Part 1 - Planning Application Part 2 - Statement Made in Support of the Planning Application Part 3 - Environmental Statement (Volume 1) and Appendices (Volume 2) Attlebridge Quarry, Reepham Road, Attlebridge, Norwich CEMEX UK Materials Limited April 2018 Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) Proposed Extraction of Sand and Gravel Part 1 - Planning Application Barrington Quarry, Reepham Road, Attlebridge, Norwich CEMEX UK Materials Limited April 2018 ATTLEBRIDGE QUARRY, REEPHAM ROAD, ATTLEBRIDGE, NORWICH APRIL 2018 PROPOSED EXTRACTION OF SAND AND GRAVEL PART 1 – PLANNING APPLICATION TABLE OF CONTENTS SECTION A FORMS AND CERTIFICATES SECTION B DRAWINGS ATTLEBRIDGE QUARRY, REEPHAM ROAD, ATTLEBRIDGE, NORWICH APRIL 2018 PROPOSED IMPORTATION BY RAIL AND DEPOSIT OF INERT RESTORATION MATERIAL TO RESTORE FORMER CLAY & CHALK QUARRY PART 1 – PLANNING APPLICATION SECTION A FORMS AND CERTIFICATES CEMEX UK MATERIALS LIMITED ATTLEBRIDGE QUARRY, REEPHAM ROAD, ATTLEBRIDGE, NORWICH APRIL 2018 PROPOSED EXTRACTION OF SAND AND GRAVEL PART 1 – PLANNING APPLICATION SECTION B DRAWINGS CEMEX UK MATERIALS LIMITED ATTLEBRIDGE QUARRY, REEPHAM ROAD, ATTLEBRIDGE, NORWICH APRIL 2018 PROPOSED EXTRACTION OF SAND AND GRAVEL PART 1 – PLANNING APPLICATION SCHEDULE OF DRAWINGS Drawing no. Description 17_C013_ATB_001 Location Plan 17_C013_ATB_002 Site Plan 17_C013_ATB_003 Potentially Environmentally Sensitive Receptors 17_C013_ATB_004 Nature Conservation 17_C013_ATTL_101 Current Topographical Survey 17_C013_ATTL_102 End of Phase 1 17_C013_ATTL_103 End of Phase 2 17_C013_ATTL_104 End of Phase 3 17_C013_ATTL_105 End of Phase 4 17_C013_ATTL_106 End of Phase 5 17_C013_ATTL_107 Restoration Landform P2/975/12/2 Final Restoration Scheme CEMEX UK MATERIALS LIMITED Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) Proposed Extraction of Sand and Gravel Part 2 – Supporting Statement Attlebridge Quarry, Reepham Road, Attlebridge, Norwich CEMEX UK Materials Limited April 2018 ATTLEBRIDGE QUARRY, REEPHAM ROAD, ATTLEBRIDGE, NORWICH APRIL 2018 PROPOSED EXTRACTION OF SAND AND GRAVEL PART 2 – SUPPORTING STATEMENT TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 THE APPLICANT 1 1.2 THE DEVELOPMENT 1 1.3 THE APPLICATION SITE 2 2.0 APPLICATION FORMAT 3 3.0 THE DEVELOPMENT 4 3.1 GENERAL 4 3.2 SITE OPERATIONS (DRAWING NOS. 17_C013_ATTL_102 - 7) 5 3.3 RESTORATION (P2/975/12/2) 6 4.0 SITE DESCRIPTION 8 4.1 THE APPLICATION SITE 8 4.2 SITE CONTEXT AND SETTING 9 5.0 DEVELOPMENT PLAN POLICY 11 6.0 CONCLUSIONS 28 APPENDIX A SOIL HANDLING METHODOLOGY APPENDIX B SUSTAINABILITY STATEMENT APPENDIX C DUST ACTION PLAN APPENDIX D ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN APPENDIX E DRAFT PLANNING OBLIGATION APPENDIX F GEOLOGICAL NOTE CEMEX UK MATERIALS LIMITED ATTLEBRIDGE QUARRY, REEPHAM ROAD, ATTLEBRIDGE, NORWICH APRIL 2018 PROPOSED EXTRACTION OF SAND AND GRAVEL 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 The Applicant 1.1.1 The applicant is CEMEX UK Materials Limited (hereafter referred to as ‗the Company‘), a wholly owned component of CEMEX. The application is submitted on behalf of the Company by CEMEX UK Operations Limited, another element of CEMEX responsible for, inter alia, Town and Country Planning matters within the UK. 1.1.2 CEMEX is the second largest producer of construction materials in the world, with extensive operations in the UK and throughout Europe, North, Central and South America, Africa and Asia. 1.1.3 The Company supplies land won and marine sand and gravel, hard rock, coated stone and ready mixed concrete from East Anglia to North Wales and Fife to the South Coast of England. It also operates a number of quarry restoration developments in the South East of England, West and East Midlands and South Wales. 1.2 The Development 1.2.1 The Company seeks planning permission to extract 545 000 tonnes of sand and gravel over a four to five year period in five operational phases, plus an additional eighteen months within which to complete the site‘s restoration, making a development lifespan of between five and six and a half years. Sand and gravel would be extracted and exported from the site at a rate of approximately 140 000 tonnes per year. The application site covers 17.7 hectares of land comprising the existing quarry void, additional land from which it is proposed to extract sand and gravel, and an access linking the site to the Reepham Road via King William‘s Drive, a private road.. The extent of the application site and its location are illustrated by drawing nos. 17_C013_ATB_001 and 2, whilst the existing site topography is illustrated by drawing no. 17_C013_ATTL_101. 1.2.2 Development would be likely to commence shortly after receipt of planning permission. Initial development works will consist of stripping the processing plant area illustrated by drawing no. 17_C013_ATTL_101, placing that stripped in a bund immediately to the south of the plant area. Once prepared processing plant, a portable weighbridge and staff welfare facilities will be installed on site (see drawing no. 17_C013_ATTL_101). 1.2.3 The development will then proceed as illustrated by drawing nos. 17_C013_ATTL_102 – 106 as a series of five phases plus a final restoration phase. This is described in more detail by Chapter 3.0 of this Statement. 1.2.4 It is proposed to restore the site in phases to open heathland as illustrated by drawing no. P2/975/12/2. This approach to CEMEX UK MATERIALS LIMITED 1 ATTLEBRIDGE QUARRY, REEPHAM ROAD, ATTLEBRIDGE, NORWICH APRIL 2018 PROPOSED EXTRACTION OF SAND AND GRAVEL restoration at the site has proven to be acceptable to the Minerals Planning Authority on a number of occasions in the past. 1.3 The Application Site 1.3.1 The application site is bounded to the north by Marriot‘s Way, and immediately beyond that Reepham and Felthorpe Roads. Marriot‘s Way is a disused railway line now used as part of a long distance cycleway linking Norwich with Aylsham, and in the vicinity of the application site is situated in a shallow cutting. Beyond the public highways lie a small number of residential properties (see paragraph 1.3.4 below), a number of plantations, a builder‘s merchants and a series of large agricultural sheds. To the west lies plantation. Beyond, approximately 150 metres from the application boundary, lies open fields. A byway open to all traffic lies a further 200 metres to the west of the plantation/agricultural land boundary. To the south lies more plantation. Beyond the plantation lies a landfill site, restoring a former sand and gravel working. To the South West lies an isolated residential property, Keeper‘s Cottage. To the east is further plantation, giving way to open fields approximately 100 metres from the application boundary. 1.3.2 In terms of landuse the application site consists of a largely tree felled scrubby area, with the extreme east of the site having been partially worked for sand and gravel pursuant to a previous planning permission. It is situated within a surrounded by plantation woodland. 1.3.3 No rights of way cross the application site. 1.3.4 The application site is 17.7 hectares in area. The closest residential properties to the proposed extraction boundary all lie to the north of Felthorpe Road (see drawing no. 17_C013_ATB_003), approximately 90 metres distant. To the south lies Keepers Cottage, 430 metres distant from the proposed extraction boundary at its closest point. Wood Farm lies 250 metres to the east of the planning application boundary, but this closest point is the point at which King William‘s Drive links to the Reepham Road. The property actually lies 580 metres distant from the proposed extraction boundary. CEMEX UK MATERIALS LIMITED 2 ATTLEBRIDGE QUARRY, REEPHAM ROAD, ATTLEBRIDGE, NORWICH APRIL 2018 PROPOSED EXTRACTION OF SAND AND GRAVEL 2.0 APPLICATION FORMAT 2.1 This planning submission consists of three constituent components, namely: - Part 1 The Planning Application itself. In turn this comprises: - Section A Planning Application forms; Section B The relevant Certificates and Checklists, and; Section C The submitted drawings. Part 2 A statement made in support of the planning application (the Supporting Statement), and; Part 3 An Environmental Statement. In addition to the Supporting Statement, and in accordance with Regulation 4(1)(a) of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 the Company has decided to submit an Environmental Statement to accompany its planning application for the proposed extraction of sand and gravel. 2.2 The Environmental Statement consists of three documents, which are:- Volume 1, the Environmental Statement (ES), which is the written form of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) which has been undertaken with regard to the proposed development; Volume 2, the appendices to the ES. These are included in a digital format on CD-ROM, but can be made available in hard copy if requested (all such requests should be made to the agent), and; Volume 3, the Non-Technical Summary of the ES, produced as a separate document. 2.3 The ES does not form part of the planning application but accompanies it. CEMEX UK MATERIALS LIMITED 3 ATTLEBRIDGE QUARRY, REEPHAM ROAD, ATTLEBRIDGE, NORWICH APRIL 2018 PROPOSED EXTRACTION OF SAND AND GRAVEL 3.0 THE DEVELOPMENT 3.1 General 3.1.1 The Company seeks to renew planning permission to extract sand and gravel from Attlebridge Quarry and progressively restore the resultant void to a heathland habitat/afteruse. The development proposed will result in the production of 545 000 tonnes of aggregate products over a four to five year period, depending on market conditions, with an additional twelve to eighteen months to restore the site, dependant on weather and ground conditions. This equates to a development lifespan of between five and six and a half years. Drawing nos. 17_C013_ATTL_101 – 6 illustrate the proposed working scheme, including current topography, whilst drawing no. P2/975/12/2 depicts the proposed restoration.