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Oxfordshire Minerals and Waste Development Framework

Oxfordshire Minerals and Waste Development Framework. Mineral working: Refined spatial strategy options. Presentation at Benson Village Hall 7 th July 2010. Lois Partridge Planning Officer. Contents. Context Responses from previous consultation Refined spatial strategy options

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Oxfordshire Minerals and Waste Development Framework

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  1. Oxfordshire Minerals and Waste Development Framework Mineral working: Refined spatial strategy options Presentation at Benson Village Hall 7th July 2010 Lois Partridge Planning Officer

  2. Contents Context Responses from previous consultation Refined spatial strategy options Sand and gravel Soft sand Crushed rock Next steps 2

  3. Minerals and Waste Development Framework Minerals and Waste Core Strategy To provide for mineral working and waste management facilities for 15 year plan period Your views will help us decide the best strategy for mineral working Previous consultation earlier in 2010 on options for sand and gravel, soft sand and crushed rock

  4. Minerals Spatial Strategy Options • Refined options informed by the consultation responses • Technical consultees: Environment Agency, Natural England, Highways Agency, transport officers, archaeology officers • 6 facilitated stakeholder workshops: • County and District Councillors • Parish representatives • Stanford in the Vale • Standlake • Benson • Environmental groups • Mineral operators

  5. Consultation responses from technical consultees • Environment Agency: ground water and surface water flows; Lower Windrush Valley • Natural England: potential impact on AONBs, SACs, SSSIs; Oxford Meadows & Cothill Fen • Archaeology: national and regional sites

  6. Stakeholders’ consultation responses Options not sufficiently distinct Duplication of areas identified between options Some option areas too extensive Not all areas of resource included 6

  7. Stakeholders’ consultation responses • Transport accessibility to some areas, especially to West Oxfordshire and the Warborough/Shillingford area • Particular concern about concentrating extraction in one area – cumulative impact on some communities • Potential for restoration to offer opportunities for landscape-scale restoration • Varying depth of resources should be taken into account 7

  8. Refining the options: what we have done • Reduced the extent of the areas of resources, using the British Geological Survey data • Removed designated areas of national environmental importance • Made the options more distinct to make them easier to discuss & understand • Created smaller, more focussed areas within the options

  9. Sand and gravel refined options • Option 1: concentration on single areas discarded - replaced by concentration on 4 areas of existing working • Option 2 now concentrates on new areas of working; 5 potential areas have been identified • Option 3:dispersal strategy - extraction from any of the identified areas of resource

  10. Sand and gravel Option 1 • Concentration on existing areas • Lower Windrush Valley • Eynsham/Cassington/Yarnton • Radley • Sutton Courtenay

  11. Sand and gravel Option 2 • Concentration on new areas • Clanfield/Bampton • Sutton/Stanton Harcourt • Clifton Hampden/Wittenham • Warborough/ Shillingford/Benson • Cholsey

  12. Sand and gravel Option 3 • Dispersed option • Finmere • Clanfield/Bampton • Lower Windrush Valley • Sutton/Stanton Harcourt • Eynsham/Cassington/Yarnton • Faringdon • Radley • Sutton Courtenay • Clifton Hampden/Wittenham • Warborough/Shillingford/Benson • Cholsey • Caversham

  13. Soft sand refined option • Area in N Oxfordshire added into option • Single, extensive area of soft sand in SW Oxfordshire has been replaced with two smaller areas which focus on areas of realistic resource

  14. Soft sand refined option • A single option with three sub areas • Duns Tew • SE of Faringdon • Tubney/Marcham/Hinton Waldrist

  15. Crushed rock refined option • Option concentrated around existing working areas • Extensive area in N Oxfordshire reduced in size to reflect realistic resource

  16. Crushed rock refined option • A single option with three sub areas • East of the River Cherwell, N of Bicester • Burford area, S of the A40 • Soft sand area SE of Faringdon

  17. Requirement for minerals supply • All options could meet South East Plan aggregates supply requirement (apportionment) • New Government has revoked regional plans • Supply requirements could change • Still a need to plan for new working areas

  18. Possible hybrid options • Options present distinct approaches • Consultation responses & assessment may point to a hybrid option or options • Could include elements of different options to give best overall approach

  19. Next steps This consultation; an opportunity for involvement in the option process Report by facilitators from these 2 workshops Further consultation responses sought from technical consultees 19

  20. Next steps continued • Assessment of the options over the summer • OCC drafts Preferred Approach document October 2010 • Public consultation late autumn 2010

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