Comment
Draft Nottinghamshire Minerals Local Plan
Representation ID: 30960
Received: 22/09/2018
Respondent: Greenfield Associates
Agent: Greenfield Associates
We do not agree with Policy MP3 as there is no potential for an alternative/ additional sand sites to be developed over the plan period, where there is a clear need. Sand is becoming a much more scarcer resource across the UK and its uses as an industrial mineral, a mortar product and also as use in "fracking" will lead to even greater demand. Sand resources are spread across the north and east of Nottinghamshire thus there is great resource potential. Sand is becoming a regional product that is now transported over large distances.
We do not agree with Policy MP3 as there is no potential for an alternative/ additional sand sites to be developed over the plan period, where there is a clear need. Sand is becoming a much more scarcer resource across the UK and its uses as an industrial mineral, a mortar product and also as use in "fracking" will lead to even greater demand. Sand resources are spread across the north and east of Nottinghamshire thus there is great resource potential. Sand is becoming a regional product that is now transported over large distances.