Dear Sir

Drafts Minerals Local Plan
Sand and Gravel Provision Site MP2s Mill Hill nr Barton-in-Fabis

I write to object to the proposed inclusion of the above site in the draft mineral plan.

I believe that your own sustainability Assessment confirms that inclusion of the Barton site would be the most damaging in terms of its impact on the environment and landscape and indeed that it was initially excluded on that basis. Please let me know what has changed in this respect.

Now we find that the Shelford Site has been taken out of the draft plan. It seems that the new criterion of maintaining" a spread of geographical sites" has been devised to justify replacing Shelford with Barton. Surely this cannot override the environmental issues, of which, as you are well aware, there are many?

Yours faithfully