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Representation ID: 99387

Received: 19/12/2022

Respondent: Haddiscoe Parish Council

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

M25. S4.1 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 that mineral development addresses and minimises 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 adaption into the design and restoration and aftercare proposals”. Min 25 is particularly climate change heavy as the sand and gravel is quarried, which releases the 100% carbon, but only the gravel is required and transported to the Breedon Norton Subcourse Quarry. Additionally, the Breedon proposal is to return the land to the land owner for an unspecified use, this is inconsistent with a positive climate change aftercare proposal. This is unsound and ineffective.

Soundness tests: Not Justified, Not Effective, Not Positively Prepared, Not Consistent with National Policy