Simplified Summary of Results Financial Year Core Output Indicator 2004/5 2005/6 2006/7 2007/8 2008/9 M1 Sand Gravel ☺ ☺ ☺ M1 ☺ Crushed Rock M1 M2 Recycled Aggregates M2 ☺ W1 New Waste Management Capacity ☺ ☺ ☺ W1 ☺ ☺ W2 Municipal Waste ☺ ☺ ☺ W2 ☺ ☺ E1 Accepting EA advice ☺ ☺ ☺ E1 ☺ ☺ Changes in Areas of Biodiversity E2 E2 Importance ☺ ☺ E3 Renewable Energy E3 Compliance with Regulation 48 ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ Key ☺ = Fully Achieved = Improving = Adequate = Same = Worsening = Not Achieved ? = Insufficient data Contents Executive summary .......................................................................................................... 4 Minerals and Waste Local Development Scheme ..................................................... 4 Development Plan: Minerals and Waste Policies ...................................................... 4 Monitoring of Saved Policies ..................................................................................... 4 Introduction and background ............................................................................................ 8 Purpose of the report .................................................................................................... 8 Legal background to the Annual Monitoring Report .................................................. 8 Purpose of the Report ............................................................................................... 8 Community Involvement ........................................................................................... 9 Context and Background for the AMR .......................................................................... 9 The Worcestershire Story of Place ........................................................................... 9 Spatial Portrait ........................................................................................................ 10 Minerals and Waste Issues ..................................................................................... 11 Council Performance .............................................................................................. 12 Environmental context ............................................................................................ 14 Timetable for preparation ........................................................................................ 15 Natural resources strategy ......................................................................................... 18 Analysis of policies in existing development plans ......................................................... 19 Introduction................................................................................................................. 19 AMR Policy Monitoring Objective 1: Living within Environmental Limits ......................... 21 Monitoring of "saved" Structure Plan policies .......................................................... 22 Local output indicators ............................................................................................ 23 BPEO ...................................................................................................................... 25 AMR objective 2: Achieving a sustainable economy by ensuring an adequate supply of aggregates ..................................................................................................................... 26 Mineral issues ......................................................................................................... 26 Monitoring of "saved" policies ................................................................................. 27 Core output indicators ............................................................................................. 28 Local output indicators ............................................................................................ 35 AMR objective 3: Achieving a sustainable economy by ensuring an adequate supply of non-aggregate minerals ................................................................................................. 37 Background ............................................................................................................. 37 Monitoring of "saved" policies ................................................................................. 39 Local output indicators ............................................................................................ 40 AMR objective 4: Achieving a sustainable economy by enabling the management of waste in accordance with the waste hierarchy ............................................................... 42 Background ............................................................................................................. 44 Monitoring of 'saved' Structure Plan Policies .......................................................... 45 Core output indicators ............................................................................................. 47 Local output indicators ............................................................................................ 50 Assumptions: .......................................................................................................... 52 Integrated Waste Management Contract ................................................................ 55 Other National Core Output Indicators ........................................................................... 58 National Core Output Indicators E1, E2, E3 ............................................................ 58 Other local output indicators .......................................................................................... 60 “Saved” Structure and Minerals Local Plan Policies used during the course of the year ......................................................................................................................... 60 Landscape and biodiversity issues ............................................................................. 65 2 Measure Landscape Character Change ................................................................. 65 Worcestershire Biodiversity Action Plan .................................................................. 66 Biological Records Centre ...................................................................................... 66 Special Wildlife Site Review .................................................................................... 66 Worcestershire Habitat Inventory ............................................................................ 66 Woodland Opportunities Mapping ........................................................................... 67 Regional Biodiversity work ...................................................................................... 67 Community involvement ............................................................................................. 67 Statement of Community Involvement .................................................................... 67 Development Control .............................................................................................. 69 Recommendations and Limitations ......................................................................... 70 Limitations and proposals for future monitoring .............................................................. 72 Appendix 1: Links to the Worcestershire Partnership ..................................................... 74 The Community Strategy ............................................................................................ 74 Local Area Agreements .............................................................................................. 74 Appendix 2: Relevant Documents - Mineral and Waste planning ................................... 76 Regional Planning ................................................................................................... 76 Worcestershire County Council ............................................................................... 76 Saved Plans ............................................................................................................ 76 Worcestershire Partnership..................................................................................... 77 Appendix 3: SA Decision making criteria ....................................................................... 78 Appendix 4: Operational waste sites and extant permissions within Worcestershire 31st March 2008 – 1st April 2009 .......................................................................................... 81 Extant Permissions in Worcestershire, not yet implemented. ..................................... 84 Appendix 5: Worcestershire waste management trends ................................................ 85 Appendix 6: Incineration Capacity in Worcestershire ..................................................... 93 Appendix 7: Regional Comparison – Figures from the West Midlands Regional Aggregates Working Party Annual Report 2007 ............................................................. 94 Appendix 8: SCI Themes and Indicators ........................................................................ 95 Appendix 9: List of acronyms ....................................................................................... 103 Appendix 10: Waste Stream Definitions ....................................................................... 104 Appendix 11: Glossary ................................................................................................