Issue - meetings

Forward Plan Ref: 2017/076

Contact: Peter Day, Minerals & Waste Policy Team Leader Tel: (01865) 815544

Report by Director for Planning & Place (CMDE11).

The County Council is required to prepare and publish minerals and waste local plan monitoring reports. This procedural and information requirement has been met by the production each year of a Minerals and Waste Annual Monitoring Report. The Annual Monitoring Report must report on implementation of the Minerals and Waste Development Scheme (the programme for preparation of the Minerals and Waste Local Plan) and on the extent to which local plan policies are being achieved. A draft Oxfordshire Minerals and Waste Annual Monitoring Report 2016 (Calendar Year) has been prepared, covering the year 1 January to 31 December 2016.

The draft Annual Monitoring Report 2016 (Calendar Year) reports on how work on preparation of the revised Minerals and Waste Local Plan: Core Strategy was progressed in relation to the programme in the Council's revised Minerals and Waste Development Scheme, February 2016. It also reports on: production of aggregate minerals; permissions granted for mineral working and landbanks of permitted reserves; production of secondary and recycled aggregates; amounts of waste produced and methods of management; permissions granted for waste management facilities and capacity of facilities. It cross refers to the Council's Local Aggregate Assessment and Waste Needs Assessment, which contain more detailed information and will sit alongside and complement the Annual Monitoring Report. In addition, it reports on work undertaken by the Council to meet the Duty to Cooperate.

The Cabinet Member for Environment is RECOMMENDED:

(a)                to approve the Oxfordshire Minerals and Waste Annual Monitoring Report 2016 (Calendar Year) in the Annex to this report;

(b)                to authorise the Director for Planning & Place to carry out any necessary final editing of the Minerals and Waste Annual Monitoring Report 2016 (Calendar Year) for publication on the County Council website.

Approved

Approved

The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (as amended) required the County Council to prepare and publish minerals and waste local plan monitoring reports.  This requirement had been met by the production each year of a Minerals and Waste Annual Monitoring Report (AMR). AMRs assessed and reported on implementation of the Council’s local development scheme (the programme for preparation of the Minerals and Waste Local Plan) and the extent to which local plan policies were being achieved. Minerals and Waste AMRs had been produced and published on the Council’s website for each year from 2005 to 2016.

Officers confirmed that the report the first in the new format provided a baseline for future monitoring. 16 policies which related to specific areas had been saved pending adoption of the site allocations document.  There remained ongoing dialogue with neighbouring authorities including Gloucestershire county council

on issues such as exploration of common ground for production.

Responding to Councillor Sanders Mr Day confirmed that a paper setting out a timetable for publication of a site allocation document would be going to December Cabinet.

Having regard to the information set out in the report before her and the representations made to her at the meeting the Cabinet Member for Environment confirmed her decision as follows:

(a)         to approve the Oxfordshire Minerals and Waste Annual Monitoring Report 2016 (Calendar Year) in the Annex to the report CMDE11;

(b)         to authorise the Director for Planning & Place to carry out any necessary final editing of the Minerals and Waste Annual Monitoring Report 2016 (Calendar Year) for publication on the County Council website.

Signed…………………………………..

Cabinet Member for Environment

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