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Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan (Draft - for Cabinet) July 2013 Foreword 4 1 Introduction 6 2 Vision and Spatial Strategy 9 Hampshire in 2011 10 Issues for the Plan 14 Other Plans and Programmes 15 Vision - Where we need to be 16 Spatial Strategy 17 Key Diagram 21 3 Sustainable minerals and waste development 23 4 Protecting Hampshire's Environment 26 Climate change 28 Habitats and species 29 Landscape and countryside 32 South West Hampshire Green Belt 35 Heritage 37 Soils 38 Restoration of quarries and waste developments 40 5 Maintaining Hampshire's Communities 45 Protecting public health, safety and amenity 46 Flooding - risk and prevention 48 Managing traffic impacts 49 Design, construction and operation of minerals and waste development 51 CommunityDRAFT benefits 53 6 Supporting Hampshire's Economy 55 Safeguarding mineral resources 57 Safeguarding mineral infrastructure 59 Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan (Draft - for Cabinet) July 2013 Aggregate supply 62 Recycled and secondary aggregates 67 Aggregate wharves and rail depots 68 Local land-won extraction (sand & gravel) 73 Other minerals 79 Silica Sand 79 Clay 81 Chalk 84 Oil and gas 84 Sustainable waste management 88 Providing for waste management 93 Safeguarding waste infrastructure 94 Waste management requirements 96 Energy recovery development 101 Locating waste management development 102 Construction, demolition and excavation wastes 105 Liquid waste and waste water management 108 Non-hazardous waste landfill 110 Specialist waste management 113 Safeguarding potential minerals and waste wharf and rail depot infrastructure 117 7 Implementation, Monitoring and Plan Review 120 8 Glossary and Abbreviations 122 Appendix A - Site allocations 135 Appendix B -DRAFT List of safeguarded minerals and waste sites 165 Appendix C - Implementation and Monitoring Plan 181 Appendix D - Relationship between HMWP policies and previously 221 adopted policies Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan (Draft - for Cabinet) July 2013 Appendix E - Supporting documents 224 Policies Map 226 List of Policies Policy 1: Sustainable minerals and waste development 23 Policy 2: Climate change - mitigation and adaptation 28 Policy 3: Protection of habitats and species 31 Policy 4: Protection of the designated landscape 33 Policy 5: Protection of the countryside 34 Policy 6: South West Hampshire Green Belt 36 Policy 7: Conserving the historic environment and heritage assets 37 Policy 8: Protection of soils 39 Policy 9: Restoration of quarries and waste developments 41 Policy 10: Protecting public health, safety and amenity 46 Policy 11: Flood risk and prevention 49 Policy 12: Managing traffic 50 Policy 13: High-quality design of minerals and waste development 51 Policy 14: Community benefits 53 Policy 15: Safeguarding - mineral resources 57 Policy 16: Safeguarding - minerals infrastructure 60 Policy 17: Aggregate supply – capacity and source 64 Policy 18: Recycled and secondary aggregates development 68 Policy 19: Aggregate wharves and rail depots 70 Policy 20: Local land-won aggregates 75 Policy 21: Silica sand development 80 Policy 22: Brick-making clay 82 Policy 23: Chalk development 84 Policy 24: Oil and gas development 85 Policy 25: Sustainable waste management 91 Policy 26: Safeguarding - waste infrastructure 94 Policy 27: Capacity for waste management development 100 Policy 28: Energy recovery development 101 Policy 29: Locations and sites for waste management 103 Policy 30: Construction,DRAFT demolition and excavation (CDE) waste development 107 Policy 31: Liquid waste and waste water management 109 Policy 32: Non-hazardous waste landfill 112 Policy 33: Hazardous and Low Level radioactive Waste 115 Policy 34: Safeguarding potential minerals and waste wharf and rail depot infrastructure 118 4 Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan (Draft - for Cabinet) July 2013 Foreword Hampshire has some of the most beautiful countryside and coastline in the United Kingdom – one of the reasons so many choose to live here. Hampshire County Council, Southampton City Council, Portsmouth City Council, New Forest National Park Authority and the South Downs National Park Authority (the 'Hampshire Authorities') have produced the Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan in partnership. As the partner Hampshire minerals and waste planning authorities we must strike a careful balance between any potential impact on the environment and our communities while supporting our future prosperity. Although Hampshire has a strong economy we cannot take this for granted. To support economic growth, we need to ensure we can maintain a reliable source of minerals and manage our waste effectively and efficiently, while protecting the environment and our communities. We need minerals such as sand and gravel to build and repair our homes and roads and they are also important for the local economy. Sand and gravel (aggregates) cannot practicably be transported very far and must be dredged from the sea or dug out of the ground where they are found. Although we are already good at using recycled materials for building and repairing our homes, roads and infrastructure, we still need a reliable source of sand, gravel and other minerals for our future prosperity. Some of these have to be from local quarries. Waste is another important issue we need to manage. Everyone produces things that need to be disposed of - although the amount of waste we produce is going down, we have to find ways of dealing with our waste that will have as little impact on the environment and communities as possible. All minerals and waste developments require planning permission from one of the partner minerals and waste planning authorities and often an environmental permit from the Environment Agency. These consents protect communities and the environment from many of the negative effects of development. They also ensure proper restoration of quarries to agriculture or open space and improved opportunities for recreation or biodiversity. Most new waste facilities are located in industrial areas, which means they affect limited numbers of residents and minimise such development in our green areas. The Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan (the 'Plan') will ensure that we have enough minerals for Hampshire’s needs and can deal with our waste effectively to 2030. This includes using waste material that cannot be reused or recycled as a renewable energy resource in homes and businesses. Our overriding concern is to ensure that any mineral or waste proposal is the right development, in the right place, at the right time. [add signature] Councillor Seán Woodward Executive Member for Economy, Transport and Environment - Hampshire County Council [add signature] DRAFT Councillor Simon Letts Leader- Southampton City Council [add signature] Councillor Mike Hancock (MP) Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan (Draft - for Cabinet) July 2013 5 Executive Member for Planning, Regeneration and Economic Development- Portsmouth City Council [add signature] Councillor Julian Johnson Chairman - New Forest National Park Authority [add signature] Councillor Margaret Paren Chair- South Downs National Park Authority DRAFT 6 Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan (Draft - for Cabinet) July 2013 1 Introduction 1.1 Hampshire County Council, Portsmouth City Council, Southampton City Council, the New Forest National Park Authority and the South Downs National Park Authority, as the minerals and waste planning authorities in Hampshire (the 'Hampshire Authorities'), have chosen to work together to produce a plan for all minerals and waste development in Hampshire. This is the Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan (the 'Plan') and forms part of the development plan for Hampshire. The Plan covers the administrative areas of the Hampshire Authorities (Hampshire). However, the Plan covers only the part of the South Downs National Park that is in Hampshire. In preparing this Plan, the Hampshire Authorities have also worked with the local planning authorities in Hampshire as well as the adjacent minerals and waste planning authorities. This ensures that the Plan reflects and supports other plans and programmes for the area. These include other local development plan documents, community strategies and specific policy strategies, such as the local transport plans, along with low-carbon and energy strategies. 1.2 The Plan area and the Hampshire Authorities administrative area is shown in Figure 1. Figure 1 The Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan area and Hampshire Authorities administrative areas DRAFT Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan (Draft - for Cabinet) July 2013 7 1.3 In this Plan the Hampshire Authorities have set out a Vision, Objectives, Spatial Strategy and policies to enable the delivery of sustainable minerals and waste development that is right for Hampshire up to 2030 (the Plan period is from 1 January 2011 to 31 March 2030). In other