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Joint Central and Eastern Berkshire Draft Minerals and Waste Plan

Meeting: 26/07/2018 - Executive (Item 31)

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Decision:

That:

 

1)           the Draft Central and Eastern Berkshire Joint Minerals and Waste Plan be approved for public consultation;

 

2)           community involvement on the Draft Central and Eastern Berkshire Joint Minerals and Waste Plan and associated supporting documents to take place between August - October 2018 be authorised;

 

3)           the Director of Corporate Services and Director of Locality and Customer Services, in consultation with the Executive Member for Environment and the Executive Member for Business and Economic Development and Strategic Planning be authorised to agree minor amendments necessary to the Draft Central and Eastern Berkshire Joint Minerals and Waste Plan and other supporting documents prior to consultation. (Any minor modifications would consist of non-material alterations such as rewording and correction of typing errors).

 

 

Minutes:

The Executive considered a report seeking approval to commence a public consultation on the Draft Central and Eastern Berkshire Joint Minerals and Waste Plan and associated supporting documents.

 

Members were informed by the Executive Member for Environment that the Council was preparing a Joint Minerals and Waste Plan with the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, Bracknell Forest and Reading Borough Councils using the services of Hampshire County Council who having produced their own plan recently had the requisite expertise. 

 

Councillor Norman Jorgensen highlighted the two sites that were being proposed within Wokingham Borough following a ‘call for sites’ and assessment process:  Bridge Farm, Arborfield for mineral extraction and Star Works, Knowl Hill for waste processing. 

 

Members were advised that the report was seeking permission to go out to consultation in order that the views of members of the public could be taken into account in further drafting the Plan before a further version was brought back in due course.  It was noted that the consultation was proposed from early August-October and in order to receive as many comments as possible this period had been extended in order to take into account the holiday period.

 

Councillor Pollock, as ward Member where one of the sites was based, was concerned about a number of issues relating to transport, roads and capacity, and wanted to ensure that before work was carried out at these sites that the road network would be assessed and improvements required would be implemented.  He also wanted to ensure that specific consultation would be carried out with local people and they would be advised of the implications for them.  In response Councillor Jorgensen advised that public meetings had been held recently in the affected areas to alert the local communities to the fact that the consultation was about to commence and seeking their engagement in that process. 

 

In response to Councillor Pollock’s other comments Councillor Jorgensen advised that before anyone actually wanted to undertake work they would have to come forward with a planning application.  Therefore all the normal processes associated with planning applications eg consultations with the various relevant departments in the Council in order to look at the impact of road movements and adequacy of roads would all be studied in detail at that point.  The planning application may or not be approved depending on the outcome of the process..

 

RESOLVED that:

 

1)           the Draft Central and Eastern Berkshire Joint Minerals and Waste Plan be approved for public consultation;

 

2)           community involvement on the Draft Central and Eastern Berkshire Joint Minerals and Waste Plan and associated supporting documents to take place between August - October 2018 be authorised;

 

3)           the Director of Corporate Services and Director of Locality and Customer Services, in consultation with the Executive Member for Environment and the Executive Member for Business and Economic Development and Strategic Planning, be authorised to agree minor amendments necessary to the Draft Central and Eastern Berkshire Joint Minerals and Waste Plan and other supporting documents prior  ...  view the full minutes text for item 31