Agenda item

To adopt the Central and Eastern Berkshire Joint Minerals and Waste Plan.

RECOMMENDATION: That Council:

1)    adopt the Central and Eastern Berkshire Joint Minerals and Waste Plan, (Enclosure 2), which incorporates the Main Modifications recommended by the Planning Inspectors (Enclosures 3 and 4)

2)    agree to make alterations to the adopted Policies Map (Enclosure 5) that are necessary to give effect to the policies of the Joint Plan;

3)    authorise the Director of Place and Growth, in consultation with the Executive Member for Planning and Local Plan, to agree minor amendments necessary to the Joint Plan and other supporting documents ahead of publication and publicity.

Council considered the Central and Eastern Berkshire Joint Minerals and Waste Plan.

It was proposed by Lindsay Ferris and seconded by Wayne Smith that the recommendations within the report be agreed.

Lindsay Ferris indicated that the Plan had been in development since 2017.  There were no proposals for new mineral and waste allocation within the Borough but there were several others in the wider plan area, including six in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead area.  It was noted that Brookside Business Park in Swallowfield had been removed as a preferred waste area due to flooding concerns, and the Star Works site in Knowl Hill was being safeguarded for waste issues as an existing operational waste site.

RESOLVED:  That Council:

1)    adopts the Central and Eastern Berkshire Joint Minerals and Waste Plan, (Enclosure 2), which incorporates the Main Modifications recommended by the Planning Inspectors (Enclosures 3 and 4)

2)    agrees to make alterations to the adopted Policies Map (Enclosure 5) that are necessary to give effect to the policies of the Joint Plan;

3)    authorises the Director of Place and Growth, in consultation with the Executive Member for Planning and Local Plan, to agree minor amendments necessary to the Joint Plan and other supporting documents ahead of publication and publicity.