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Representation ID: 99370

Received: 19/12/2022

Respondent: Mr Anthony Burton

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

M25 - S4.1 - This states that "Mineral development and Waste Management within Norfolk will be undertaken that minimise and mitigate their contribution to climate change. The plan acknowledges that gravel extraction is climate heavy. MS08 states "to ensure mineral development addresses the impacts it will have on climate change by minimising greenhouse gas emissions during the winning ,working and handling of minerals, providing for sustainable patterns of minerals transportation where practicable and integrating features consistent with climate change mitigation and adoption into design and restoration and aftercare proposals" MIN25 is particularly climate change heavy since as the sand and gravel is quarried which releases 100% carbon, but only the gravel is required and transported to the Breedon Norton Subcourse Quarry.
Additionally the Breedon proposal is to return the site to the landowner for an unspecified use. This is inconsistent with a positive climate change aftercare proposal.

M25 states "The site will need to be worked without dewatering, unless an Hydrogeological Impact Assessment identifies either no unacceptable Hydrological impacts or appropriate mitigation is identified to ensure no acceptable impact to Hydrogeology"
The site is at the highest point of the village and in close proximity to dwellings. 6.44 states that "mineral development must also ensure that there will be no significant change to the ground water or surface water levels, including monitoring of dewatering operations to ensure on adverse impacts on surrounding water availability and/or the water environment" The excavation will have an unspecified impact on the water tables of the dwellings in the village, which have already been materially impacted by a combination of heavy rainfall and prolonged drought conditions. This is unsound and ineffective.