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This page sets out in chronological order recent consultation responses submitted by the Mineral Products Association on behalf of its member companies within the field of planning.

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Norfolk County Council Minerals and Waste Local Development Framework -Minerals Site Allocations Development Plan Document

11/12/09

MPA's response to Norfolk County Council's Minerals and Waste Local Development Framework -Minerals Site Allocations Development Plan Document.

Andrew Bromley 99kb Microsoft Word document help

Peak District National Park Authority Local Development Framework - Core Strategy Preferred Approaches

07/12/09

MPA's response to the Peak District National Park Authority's Local Development Framework - Core Strategy Preferred Approaches consultation.

Andrew Bromley 96kb Microsoft Word document help

RAWP Evaluation Report

01/12/09

MPA highlights that it feels strongly that, whilst the responses to the questions posed in the consultation will be of relevance when considering the future of the Regional Aggregate Working Parties, the conclusions of the research commissioned on the subject by CLG in 2007-2008 are of much greater significance.

Ken Hobden 135kb Microsoft Word document help

Northumberland County Council Local Development Framework: Core Strategy Minerals and Waste Consultation

23/11/09

MPA's response to Northumberland County Council's Local Development Framework: Core Strategy Minerals and Waste Consultation.

Andrew Bromley 103kb Microsoft Word document help

Essex County Council Mineral Development Document: Site Allocations Issues & Options Consultation

11/11/09

MPA's response to Essex County Council's Mineral Development Document: Site Allocations Issues & Options Consultation.

Andrew Bromley 99kb Microsoft Word document help

Tees Valley Joint Strategy Unit

09/10/09

MPA consultation response to Tees Valley Joint Strategy Unit on their Joint Minerals and Waste DPD. The main concern was the approach towards mineral safeguarding. Comments were also raised on the use of the term ‘setting’ in Policy MWC1.

Andrew Bromley 96kb Microsoft Word document help

Shropshire Council Local Development Framework

02/10/09

MPA response to the Core Strategy Policy Directions Consultation. A number of issues were raised. In particular stressing the importance of mineral safeguarding and that Mineral Planning Authorities need to do more than avoid other forms of development in MSAs. Comments were also made on the approach towards allocating sites.

Andrew Bromley 97kb Microsoft Word document help

Brecon Beacons National Park Authority Management Plan

14/09/09

MPA response to the Management Plan Draft Version 2 consultation.

Andrew Bromley 99kb Microsoft Word document help

Durham County Council Local Development Framework - Mineral Safeguarding Consultation

11/09/09

MPA response to Durham’s Minerals Safeguarding consultation. Issues were highlighted on their approach to mineral safeguarding. In particular a reminder that there is no absolute presumption against mineral working in designated areas and Minerals Planning Authorities making a judgement of what might be required in the foreseeable future and safeguard those resources.

Andrew Bromley 102kb Microsoft Word document help

Consultation - Proposals for the Introduction of the Community Infrastructure Levy

23/10/09

MPA members continue to be of the view that any infrastructure needs that should arise as a consequence of minerals development cannot be covered by a one-size-fits-all CIL system which is tailored to the circumstances of built development.

Ken Hobden 182kb Microsoft Word document help

Consultation on Regulations and Guidance applying to stalled ROMPs in Wales

16/10/09

Mineral Products Association members are of the view that key aspects of the proposals for dealing with stalled ROMPs in Wales are disproportionate to any threat that an uncompleted review might pose and carry unreasonable potential implications for both mineral operators and the Welsh economy.

Ken Hobden 203kb Microsoft Word document help

Consultation - Proposals for Introducing Mineral Review Fees

10/09/09

MPA's response explains that our members are seriously concerned about the manner in which this consultation has been conducted.

Ken Hobden 125kb Microsoft Word document help

West Midlands Regional Spatial Strategy Phase 3 Revision - Options Consultation

14/08/09

MPA response to the West Midlands RSS Phase 3 Revision Options Consultation. A number of issues were raised. In particular the approach towards mineral safeguarding and the confusion over what should be safeguarded. The MPA strongly supported a continuation of apportioning future supply by existing methods.  

Andrew Bromley 105kb Microsoft Word document help

Wigan Council Local Development Framework

04/08/09

MPA response to the Core Strategy Preferred Options Consultation. Issues were highlighted on the approach towards mineral safeguarding and landbanks.

Andrew Bromley 97kb Microsoft Word document help

Monmouthshire County Council Local Development Plan

14/07/09

MPA consultation response to Monmouthshire on their Local Development Plan Pre-Deposit (Preferred Strategy). Issues were raised in relation to the minerals section in particular safeguarding, landbank and restoration.

Andrew Bromley 98kb Microsoft Word document help

Powys County Council Unitary Development Plan

13/07/09

MPA consultation response to Powys Council regarding their UDP Further Proposed Modifications June 2009. MPA queried why Powys had not included a modification to ensure sand and gravel resources are safeguarded. A requirement under a formal direction from Welsh Assembly Government (WAG).

Andrew Bromley 94kb Microsoft Word document help

Conwy County Borough Council Local Development Plan

03/07/09

MPA response to Conwy on their Local Development Plan Deposit Proposals. The main concern was the approach towards mineral safeguarding. In particular highlighting the need for safeguarding resources even if no allocations for hard rock are required.

Andrew Bromley 99kb Microsoft Word document help

Nottinghamshire County Council Minerals Development Framework

30/06/09

MPA consultation response to Nottinghamshire on their Minerals Safeguarding Draft Background Paper. A number of issues were highlighted on this background document. Among them some confusion between MSAs and buffer zones. Also prior extraction is not about making propositions attractive to developers it is about ensuring irreplaceable resources are not sterilised.

Andrew Bromley 100kb Microsoft Word document help

Partial review of the South East RSS Review of Policy M3 - Primary land-won aggregates and subregional apportionment

25/06/09

MPA's response to the partial review of the South East RSS Review of Policy M3 - Primary land-won aggregates and subregional apportionment.

Ken Hobden 266kb Microsoft Word document help
Various Traffic Regulation Orders - South West of Wiltshire

 

14/04/09

In this MPA response we fully support the comments made by both the Mendip Quarry Producers and officers of Somerset County Council and must join them in registering our own formal objection to the proposals. In particular, the MPA is of the view that there can be no justification for the significant increase in CO2 emissions that will result directly from the restrictions on the A362 (Order 2 – Ref:KAD/TRO/CORY).

Ken Hobden 106kb Microsoft Word document help
Cardiff Council Deposit Local Development Plan 09/06/09

MPA consultation response to Cardiff Council on their Deposit Local Development Plan. The main concerns were surrounding the approach towards landbanks. There were also issues with the proposed approach towards mineral safeguarding.

Andrew Bromley 97kb Microsoft Word document help
Lake District National Park Authority Local Development Framework 05/06/09

MPA response to Lake District National Park Authority on their Draft Core Strategy Policies consultation. Comments were made on the mineral extraction and mineral safeguarding policies. The main concern highlighted was the suggested approach of only safeguarding building stone and slate resources.

Andrew Bromley 107kb Microsoft Word document help
Warwickshire County Council Minerals Development Framework 31/03/09

MPA response to Warwickshire on their Core Strategy Revised Spatial Options Consultation. A number of concerns were highlighted on the quantity of mineral required to meet apportionment and maintain landbanks, Mineral Safeguarding Areas, transport and the how criteria for site allocations/applications should not be the same.

Andrew Bromley 109kb Microsoft Word document help
Pembrokeshire Coast NPA Deposit Local Development Plan 31/03/09

MPA consultation response to Pembrokeshire Coast on their Deposit Local Development Plan. The main concerns highlighted were in relation to minerals supply, with no mention or policy on apportionment and maintaining landbanks. There were also flaws in the approach towards mineral safeguarding.

Andrew Bromley 96kb Microsoft Word document help
Kirklees Council Local Development Framework 31/03/09

MPA response to Kirklees Council on their LDF Core Strategy Options Consultation. The concerns highlighted were surrounding the lack of evidence/figures presented by Kirklees on reserves and the quantity of minerals, which will be required to meet their apportionment and maintain landbanks.

Andrew Bromley 95kb Microsoft Word document help
Peak District National Park Authority Local Development Framework 31/03/09

MPA consultation response on the Refined Options Core Strategy. Issues were highlighted on the Peak District NPA approach towards mineral safeguarding and limiting restoration and after-use solely to the improvement of biodiversity and landscape.

Andrew Bromley 109kb Microsoft Word document help
Bridgend Council Local Development Plan 31/03/09

MPA consultation response to Bridgend on their Local Development Plan Pre-Deposit Proposals. The main concerns highlighted where in relation to minerals supply, landbank and mineral safeguarding.

Andrew Bromley 399kb Microsoft Word document help
Rhondda Cynon Taff Local Development Plan 26/03/09

MPA consultation response to Rhondda Cynon Taf on their Local Development Plan Deposit Draft. The issues raised where in relation to landbank and mineral safeguarding.

Andrew Bromley 100kb Microsoft Word document help
Essex County Council Minerals and Waste Development Framework Consultation 12/03/09

Mineral Products Association response to Essex Minerals Development Document (MDD) Further Issues and Options Consultation.

Andrew Bromley 1mb Microsoft Word document help
Brecon Beacons National Park Authority 03/03/09

QPA response to Brecon Beacons National Park Local Development Plan (LDP) Preferred Strategy. Comments on the document highlighted concerns with lack of accordance with national policy. 

Andrew Bromley 100kb Microsoft Word document help
Isle of Wight Local Development Framework 09/02/09

QPA response to the Isle of Wight Island Plan Submission Core Strategy consultation. A concern raised was the minerals policies lack of clarity.

Andrew Bromley 95kb Microsoft Word document help
Staffordshire Minerals and Waste Development Framework 24/11/08

QPA response to Staffordshire’s Minerals Core Strategy Issues and Options 2 consultation.

Andrew Bromley 109kb Microsoft Word document help
Northamptonshire Minerals and Waste Development Framework 20/11/08

QPA response to Northamptonshire County Council Core Strategy Proposed Submission. Numerous comments made on safeguarding, landbank and restoration.

Andrew Bromley 105kb Microsoft Word document help
Berkshire Unitary Authorities Joint Strategic Planning Unit LDF 27/10/08

QPA consultation response to the JSPU Minerals and Waste Core Strategy Submission Draft. The main issue was the approach towards safeguarding of sand and gravel deposits

Andrew Bromley 106kb Microsoft Word document help
Newcastle-under-Lyme and Stoke-on-Trent Local Development Framework 24/10/08

Consultation response to the joint Core Strategy Proposed Submission. QPA is concerned by the inadequate policy coverage within their Core Strategy in relation to minerals.

Andrew Bromley 105kb Microsoft Word document help
Wiltshire County Council and Swindon Borough Council Minerals and Waste Development Framework 12/09/08

In this consultation QPA makes the point that it disagrees with paragraph 3.6 and would question why it is important to avoid over-provision. The number of quarries operating at any one time is a function of the market for their material, not the amount of permitted reserves. This will not unnecessarily result in a less sustainable supply of aggregate.

Andrew Bromley 106kb Microsoft Word document help
Leicestershire County Council Minerals Development Framework 04/08/08

In this response QPA makes a number of suggestions. In paragraph 3.7, Sub paragraph 5 implies that the needs of the natural and built environment should always take priority over the need for minerals, but QPA feels that is inconsistent with many statements in MPS1.

Andrew Bromley 109kb Microsoft Word document help
Planning Applications: A faster and more responsive system - A Call for Solutions 05/09/08

QPA believe that the Call for Solutions document has highlighted many of the problems that lie at the heart of the dissatisfaction that our members feel with the current planning application process.

Ken Hobden 130kb Microsoft Word document help
Draft Order - Lorry Management Zones Within Gloucestershire 29/08/08

Overall, the QPA believe that the objectives of the Strategy have been poorly defined in the Statement of Reasons and no sound and credible evidence base has been presented upon which justification for those objectives can be founded. Similarly, there is no evidence to show that the proposed restrictions will achieve the objectives of the Strategy. Therefore the QPA position is one of objection to the draft Order.

Ken Hobden 112kb Microsoft Word document help
Consultation - Protection of World Heritage Sites 22/08/08

The QPA welcome the consultation and the attempts to give World Heritage Sites an appropriate level of protection when compared with that already afforded to many other less significant interests under the English planning system.

Ken Hobden 111kb Microsoft Word document help
Consultation - Sub-Regional Allocation of Land-Won Aggregates 08/08/08

QPA believe that the work done to produce the consultation document is very significant in maintaining the momentum of the search for a more rounded and forward-looking methodology on which to base sub-regional apportionment of the national aggregate guidelines. However we do not believe that a case has been made to support replacement of the current methodology, with any of the options which the document contains.

Ken Hobden 112kb Microsoft Word document help
Draft Heritage Protection Bill 25/06/08

QPA's response makes clear that the transition to the new system must be properly managed to take into account that the planning system uses a well established hierarchical approach to assess the weight that should be attached to heritage designations based upon the current categories. That hierarchy must be maintained.

Ken Hobden 84kb Microsoft Word document help
Draft Guidelines for Aggregates Provision in England 2005 - 2020 25/06/08

This response stresses that QPA is broadly satisfied that the Revised Guidelines can fulfil their principal function in providing for an adequate and steady supply of aggregate materials. QPA believes that only where the Guidelines are clearly shown not to be in accord with the objectives of MPS1 should they be reviewed.

Ken Hobden 86kb Microsoft Word document help
Cumbria County Council Minerals and Waste Development Framework
30/05/08

QPA consultation response to Cumbria County Council in respect of their Submission Draft Core Strategy and Submission Draft Development Control Policies. QPA questioned their landbank provision and safeguarding approach in the DC polices.

Andrew Bromley 104kb Microsoft Word document help
Wiltshire & Swindon Councils Minerals and Waste Development Framework
14/05/08

QPA response to Wiltshire County Council and Swindon Borough Council on their recent consultation. Comments were made regarding the Submission Draft Minerals Core Strategy Development Plan Document. QPA highlighted concerns of how the plan is not in accordance with national policy.

Andrew Bromley 105kb Microsoft Word document help
Consultation on Proposals for Transposition of EU Directive 2006/21/EC in England and Wales
10/04/08

The QPA sets out its strong opposition to the support that the consultation document gives to the Environment Agency as the Government's Preferred Option as principal competent authority

Ken Hobden 102kb Microsoft Word document help
New PPS4: Planning for Sustainable Economic Development 17/03/08 In this response, QPA supports the renewed emphasis placed on development as a vital component of economic growth and sustainable communities. However, QPA feel that the document fails to recognise the matters that are unique to the consideration of minerals proposals through the planning system: minerals can only be worked where they occur and their extraction demands special consideration as a result. Ken Hobden 105kb Microsoft Word document help
Consultation - Streamlining Local Development Frameworks 18/02/08 This consultation response highlights QPA's concern that all of the proposals in the document are predicated on the need to facilitate the consideration of housing development, while this is only one category out of many that the Local Development Framework system must address. In the Draft PPS12, there is little discussion of the role of the planning system and LDFs in conserving natural resources such as minerals. Ken Hobden 119kb Microsoft Word document help
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