Object

Representation ID: 267

Received: 11/10/2019

Respondent: Tarmac

Agent: Heaton Planning Ltd

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Policy MP9 is not considered positively prepared and is therefore unsound. Reserves of industrial dolomite are of international importance and the resource itself is scarce with only a small number of sites within the UK. As such there will always be a need for the resource,
therefore the policy should be reworded to state that:
‘Proposals for industrial dolomite extraction will be supported providing that development does not give rise to any unacceptable levels of environmental impact’.
Whilst additional resource areas do not need to be identified as an allocation, the resource within Nottinghamshire should be identified within the Plan and recognised as a proven resource to be safeguarded.