Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Climate Change Delivery & Environment

Forward Plan Ref: 2021/083

Contact: Kevin Broughton, MWLP Manager Tel: 07979 704458

Report by Corporate Director Environment & Place (CA13).

The County Council is responsible for preparing the Minerals and Waste Local Plan. This will guide all future Minerals and Waste development across the County to 2031.This report relates to Part 1 of 2: the Core Strategy.

The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to endorse the proposed progression of the Minerals and Waste Local Plan and to delegate to the Corporate Director, Environment and Place, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Climate Change Delivery and Environment, the final production of consultation documents relating to the Core Strategy review.

Recommendations agreed

Cabinet considered the Minerals and Waste Local Plan Part 1 of 2: the Core Strategy which will guide all future Minerals and Waste development across the County to 2031.  Councillor Pete Sudbury, Cabinet Member for Climate Change Delivery and Environment, addressed his comments jointly to this item and the following item which was related.

Councillor Sudbury acknowledged the excellent work of the Council’s officers and the Cabinet Advisory Group in this very technical area.  He noted the good practice of inviting a critical friend – in this case, Northamptonshire – to review the decision-making.

The Council had a statutory requirement under the National Planning Policy Framework to assure the supply of certain materials for a specified number of years ahead.  Currently there was not an assurance of the supply of crushed rock for 10 years and this required a revision of the policy.  What had been recommended on this item and the next was the minimum required to satisfy those statutory requirements.  He moved the recommendations.

RESOLVED: to endorse the proposed progression of the Minerals and Waste Local Plan and to delegate to the Corporate Director, Environment and Place, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Climate Change Delivery and Environment, the final production of consultation documents relating to the Core Strategy review.