Issue - meetings

Forward Plan Ref: 2010/155

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

Report by Head of Sustainable Development (CMDGI5).

The Cabinet Member considered the Minerals and Waste Development Framework Annual Monitoring Report for 2010 the purpose of which was to assess and report on implementation of the local development scheme and the extent to which policies were being achieved.

Mr Day confirmed that figures set out in paragraph 4.2.3 resulting from recent permissions would increase levels of permitted reserves for soft sand in line with the current apportionment figure but not quite for sharp sand and gravel. He also confirmed that production of primary aggregates (Table 1 and Figure 1) had declined in recent years.  Material was being imported from Gloucestershire but it was not possible to be precise about those levels. 

The Cabinet Member stressed the importance of imported materials and their influence on the permitted reserves projection as set out in Table 4.

(a)                     to approve in principle the Oxfordshire Minerals and Waste Development Framework Annual Monitoring Report 2010 annexed to the report CMDGI5;

(b)                    to authorise the Head of Sustainable Development to carry out any necessary final editing of the Annual Monitoring Report 2010; to submit it to the Secretary of State and publish it on the County Council website in accordance with Section 35 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 and Regulation 48 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Development) (England) Regulations 2004.

(c)                     forward a copy of the report to members of the Minerals and Waste Plan Working Group, Planning & Regulation Committee and those members whose divisions were directlly affected by mineral deposits and waste development.