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Preferred Options consultation document
Representation ID: 94619
Received: 25/10/2019
Respondent: Longwater Gravel Co. Ltd.
Summary: Longwater Gravel fully supports the allocation of MIN 51/MIN 13 - land west of Bilney Road, Beetley in the Norfolk Minerals and Waste Local Plan, but asks that MIN 08 is also allocated as it is likely, due to the anticipated closure of Coxford Abbey Quarry, that MIN 51/MIN 13 will be worked at a higher annual output and will therefore exhaust reserves before the end of the plan period.
Longwater Gravel fully supports Norfolk County Council's proposal to include MIN 51/MIN 13 as a preferred site in the Norfolk Minerals and Waste Local Plan review. Longwater Gravel also supports the detail of the Specific Site Allocation Policy for MIN 51/MIN 13.
A separate response setting out the justification for the inclusion of MIN 08 within the Norfolk Minerals and Waste Local Plan has been submitted under MIN 08 - Land North of Stoney Lane, Beetley. Longwater Gravel are now the preferred operator for working this site and consider that MIN 08 will be required to maintain sand and gravel supply towards the end of the Plan period and forms a logical extension to mineral extraction in areas MIN 51 and MIN 13.
Longwater Gravel intends to submit a planning application to seek permission to extract sand and gravel from MIN 13, MIN 51 and MIN 08 as a combined site as opposed to three separate individual sites operating at the same time. Processing activities, i.e. washing, screening, crushing, etc. of sand and gravel would only take place on MIN 13. Initially, the output of sand and gravel from MIN 13 will be 70,000 tonnes/year. From 2027, due to the anticipated closure of Coxford Abbey Quarry, the output of sand and gravel from MIN 13 will rise to 110,000 tonnes/year.
HGV movements would be restricted to MIN 13 only with access to and from the road network using an entrance road from MIN 13 onto Rawhall Lane at the northeast corner of the site. No HGV's will be required to access MIN 51 or MIN 08. Initially, HGV movements will be around 10 per day from the site with this rising to 15 from 2027.
Whilst extraction takes place in MIN 13, MIN 51 and MIN 08 would be retained in agricultural use. Only when mineral reserves have been exhausted in MIN 13 would extraction commence in MIN 51 and only when mineral reserves have been exhausted in MIN 51 would extraction commence in MIN 08. During the mineral plan period, the timescales for working the three sites is anticipated to be as follows:
MIN 13: 2020 - 2027
MIN 51: 2028 - 2032
MIN 08: 2033 -
During the extraction phases, all three sites would be progressively restored and the land returned to agricultural use along with appropriate biodiversity/habitat creation. Only the operations area in MIN 13 would remain unrestored until mineral extraction from the final phase of MIN 08 is completed.
Longwater Gravel fully supports Norfolk County Council's proposal to include MIN 51/MIN 13 as a preferred site in the Norfolk Minerals and Waste Local Plan review. Longwater Gravel also supports the detail of the Specific Site Allocation Policy for MIN 51/MIN 13.
A separate response setting out the justification for the inclusion of MIN 08 within the Norfolk Minerals and Waste Local Plan has been submitted under MIN 08 - Land North of Stoney Lane, Beetley. Longwater Gravel are now the preferred operator for working this site and consider that MIN 08 will be required to maintain sand and gravel supply towards the end of the Plan period and forms a logical extension to mineral extraction in areas MIN 51 and MIN 13.
Longwater Gravel intends to submit a planning application to seek permission to extract sand and gravel from MIN 13, MIN 51 and MIN 08 as a combined site as opposed to three separate individual sites operating at the same time. Processing activities, i.e. washing, screening, crushing, etc. of sand and gravel would only take place on MIN 13. Initially, the output of sand and gravel from MIN 13 will be 70,000 tonnes/year. From 2027, due to the anticipated closure of Coxford Abbey Quarry, the output of sand and gravel from MIN 13 will rise to 110,000 tonnes/year.
HGV movements would be restricted to MIN 13 only with access to and from the road network using an entrance road from MIN 13 onto Rawhall Lane at the northeast corner of the site. No HGV's will be required to access MIN 51 or MIN 08. Initially, HGV movements will be around 10 per day from the site with this rising to 15 from 2027.
Whilst extraction takes place in MIN 13, MIN 51 and MIN 08 would be retained in agricultural use. Only when mineral reserves have been exhausted in MIN 13 would extraction commence in MIN 51 and only when mineral reserves have been exhausted in MIN 51 would extraction commence in MIN 08. During the mineral plan period, the timescales for working the three sites is anticipated to be as follows:
MIN 13: 2020 - 2027
MIN 51: 2028 - 2032
MIN 08: 2033 -
During the extraction phases, all three sites would be progressively restored and the land returned to agricultural use along with appropriate biodiversity/habitat creation. Only the operations area in MIN 13 would remain unrestored until mineral extraction from the final phase of MIN 08 is completed.