Recommendations agreed subject to an additional point highlighted in bold below:
Agreed to:
(a) agree the following response to the consultation by the Government Office for the South East on the Secretary of State’s Proposed Changes to Regional Spatial Strategy for the South East (South East Plan) Policy M3 – Primary land-won aggregates and sub-regional apportionment:
(i) the County Council objects to the proposed changes to the sand and gravel figures in Policy M3, particularly the regional figure of 11.12 million tonnes a year and the Oxfordshire figure of 2.10 million tonnes a year, for the reasons set out in paragraph 20 of this report;
(ii) the County Council believes that, in the light of the proposed reduction in the regional sand and gravel figure, the Oxfordshire apportionment should be reduced from the current level of 1.82 million tonnes a year; the County Council supported the lower figure of 1.58 million tonnes a year for Oxfordshire proposed by SEERA in March 2009.
(iii) the County Council supports the proposed changes to the crushed rock figures in Policy M3;
(iv) the County Council supports the other proposed changes to the wording of Policy M3, in particular the inclusion of a statement that apportionments will be subject to testing of deliverability in the preparation of MWDFs;
(b) authorise the Head of Sustainable Development, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Growth and Infrastructure, to submit a response to the consultation based on this report.