Ibstock Brick Dorket Head is only one of two brick factories in Nottinghamshire. Bricks are vitally important to ensure adequate supply of building materials to meet the UK demand for house building. Bricks provide an aesthetically pleasing, durable and safe building product.
The existing Dorket Head factory will undoubtedly remain the mainstay of brick production and representations to ensure security of future supply are made elsewhere in this plan through the extension of the existing site and potentially remote quarries.
The Mineral Plan should however also make provision for a criteria based policy taking account the potential for further additional, alternative or relocated sites to come forward during the plan period which are not allocated or envisaged at the plan making stage.