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17/00111 - Kent Minerals and Waste Local Plan 2013 - 30 - Partial Review, Minerals Sites Plan Options and Local Development Scheme

Meeting: 30/11/2017 - Environment & Transport Cabinet Committee (Item 46)

46 17/00111 - Kent Minerals and Waste Local Plan 2013 - 30 - Partial Review, Minerals Sites Plan and revised Local Development Scheme pdf icon PDF 110 KB

To consider and endorse, or to make recommendations to the Cabinet Member responsible for the Minerals and Waste Local Plan on the proposed decision to undertake public consultation on the ‘Minerals Sites Plan – Options 2017’ document and associated ‘Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report.’

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Minutes:

Mr Oakford (Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Strategic Commissioning and Public Health), Katie Stewart (Director of Environment, Planning and Enforcement) and Sharon Thompson (Head of Planning Applications) were in attendance for this item.

 

Mr Oakford advised Members that due to a declaration of interest made by Mr Balfour (Cabinet Member for Planning, Highways, Transport and Waste) he would present the report and would take the subsequent decision. Mr Balfour left the meeting.

 

1.    Sharon Thompson (Head of Planning Applications introduced the report that provided an update on the Kent Minerals and Waste Local Plan (KMWLP) 2013-30 adopted by Kent County Council in 2016. The KMWLP committed the Council to develop a Minerals and Waste Sites Plan, to identify suitable sites for minerals and waste management in Kent.

 

2.    Following the decision to agree the methodology by which sites would be assessed, a ‘call for sites’ had been issued and work progressed under four main streams:

 

                      i.        The Minerals Sites Plan

 

                    ii.        Waste Sites Plan

 

                   iii.        Associated partial review of the KMWLP (in respect of future requirements for waste management and mineral and waste safeguarding); and

 

                   iv.        The local development scheme (timetable)

 

3.    In respect of the Minerals Sites Plan, it was now considered timely and useful to seek local views on the minerals sites options as set out in the KMWLP 2013-30 Mineral Sites Plan Options Consultation Document November 2017  (appendix 1 to item 7 of the committee papers). To this end a public consultation would be held for a twelve week period between December 2017 and March 2018.

 

4.    In response to questions the officer provided further information:

 

5.    The process for identification of Silica sand sites was separate from the minerals plan and was clearly set out in the KMWLP.

 

6.    No dredging sites are proposed in the Site Options document.   None had been promoted during the ‘call for sites, suggesting no case of need.  In order for the Plan to be found sound and capable of adoption, it needed to be deliverable and justified and a willing landowner was crucial to this.  

 

 

7.    A Waste Site Plan identifying allocations for sites for waste management was no longer necessary following the implementation of a recent planning permission of significant new capacity at Kemsley. This would provide some 500,000 tonnes of the identified need of 562,000 tonnes. The requirement set out in the KMWLP would therefore need to be amended as part of the partial review.

 

 

8.    Mrs Thompson welcomed the views of Mr Payne and Ms Hamiltion, elected Members for Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells and those of the borough councillor represented by Ms Hamilton. She reminded Members that such views would be sought as part of the public consultation period after which the options would be reconsidered in light of any responses.

 

9.    In regards to the proposed timescale for the Partial Review of the KMWLP and the Mineral Site Options, a 12 week public consultation period was proposed that would run from December 2017 to March  ...  view the full minutes text for item 46