Examination library

Mineral Sites Plan Examination

The Mineral Sites Plan was submitted to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on 29 March 2018. 

Inspector Elizabeth Ord LLB (Hons) MA DipTUS was appointed as the independent Inspector to conduct the examination into the soundness of the Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole Mineral Sites Plan. Public hearings were held in Dorchester from Tuesday 25 September to Thursday 27 September 2018 and also from 2 October to 3 October 2018. Full details can be viewed on the notice of independent examination. A further hearing session was held on 14 February 2019.

The Inspector issued the Matters, Issues and Questions that formed the basis for discussions during the hearing sessions. A guidance note from the Inspector is available.

The Mineral Sites Plan and supporting documents are available to view below in the examination library. The statement of submission provides details of viewing submission documents at our offices.

Mineral Planning Authority Officer contact

You can contact us with any queries on the Mineral Sites Plan by:

Email: mwdf@dorsetcouncil.gov.ukor phone 01305 224675.

Programme Officer contact

If you have any queries regarding the examination or your representations, you can contact the programme officer using the details below:

Mrs A Christine Self MIBMS

Programme Officer
Homefield House
Homefield Road
Saltford
Bristol BS31 3EG

Email: ac.self@blueyonder.co.uk
Tel: 01225 872654

Additional Inspector's documentation:

At the Inspector's request, the above documents were added to this page on 12 July 2019.

New National Planning Policy Framework and additional examination documents

The new national planning policy framework (NPPF) was published on 24 July 2018. The council prepared a statement setting out its approach to ensuring that the Mineral Sites Plan is compliant with the new NPPF and proposed a number of modifications to the Plan in order to ensure that references within the Mineral Sites Plan reflect the new NPPF. People were invited to comment on the modifications proposed in relation to the NPPF and on whether the publication of the new NPPF raised any additional issues. 

The council also published five additional evidence documents. These are three heritage assessments relating to Hurst Farm, Station Road and Philliols Farm; a cumulative traffic impact assessment in relation to Trigon, Philliols and Tatchells; and the most recent local aggregates assessment. The documents are available below - see Background Documents MSDCC73 - MSDCC77.

The following responses in relation to the NPPF and additional documents were received. Officer responses to the comments made can also be viewed:

The council has prepared a statement on a matter raised regarding the referencing of assessment of cumulative impacts within the sustainability appraisal of the Plan. A further screening exercise is now available.

The following responses in relation to the screening exercise were received.

Inspector site visits

The Inspector undertook a number of accompanied site visits, as follows:

Examination library

A number of supporting documents have been published alongside the Mineral Sites Plan Pre-Submission Draft - please see below. These include documents detailing how the Plan has been prepared and evidence that underpins the Plan. For each site that we are proposing to allocate for the development of mineral extraction, a Site Assessment is available (please see the second section below).

Addendum sheet

Draft Mineral Sites Plan Addendum Sheet May 2018

Statements of Common Ground

Hearing documents

Representors Statements

Submission documents

Background Documents 

External documents

* This part of the web-page is a repository for documents that have not been produced or commissioned by the Mineral Planning Authority (MPA), but the MPA consider it helpful to have them made readily available for anyone to see. These documents are:

• Technical documents
• Added to the website at the discretion of the MPA or the request of the Inspector
• Do not comprise or include material submitted as part of the 2017/18 Pre-Submission Consultation of the Mineral Sites Plan.

Interactive map

You can view an interactive map of the Pre submission Draft Mineral Sites Plan to see the mineral sites allocated in the Plan; the locations of safeguarded mineral sites and infrastructure, and the Puddletown Road Policy Area (chapter 4).

The map also shows 250m consultation areas around the safeguarded mineral sites and infrastructure (Policy MS-9). 

You can zoom in and out of the map using the zoom control on the top left of the screen. To get more information about any displayed item, you can click once in the centre of the item and a pop up box will appear which provides a description.

Data Protection - note for people who responded to the consultation

The information you provide will be used by Dorset County Council for the purpose of preparing the minerals and waste local plans. It will only be retained for as long as required for those purposes. Your information may be shared with the Secretary of State and the Planning Inspectorate for the purpose of examining the legal compliance and soundness of the documents. Note that representations, including respondent details, will be forwarded to the Secretary of State for consideration when the Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole Waste Plan and Mineral Sites Plan are submitted for examination. Please be aware that all representations will be made available for public inspection, including on the council's website.
By submitting a representation form, you are consenting to its use as detailed, and you are agreeing to your details to be added to our database. Further information about the use of personal information is available on our privacy, cookies and advertising page or by contacting the Council's Data Protection Officer by email at data.protection@dorsetcouncil.gov.uk or by post at RMU, County Hall, Dorchester, DT1 1XJ.

Consultation

Over 1,100 people and organisations responded to the consultation on the Pre-Submission Mineral Sites Plan, raising a range of different issues to be taken into consideration. View the outcomes of the consultation.

Site appraisals

Every site in the Mineral Sites Plan has undergone a full appraisal of constraints which may be impacted by quarrying activity.

Consultation on additional site - Land at Horton Heath (AS27)

During the examination, a site that hadn't been included in the submitted Plan was discussed - land at Horton Heath, Wimborne (reference AS27). You can download a location map showing the site.

Public consultation on this additional site took place from 17 December 2018 to 28 January 2019. An additional hearing session was held by the Inspector on Thursday 14 February.

The following documents relevant to this hearing session are available as part of the examination library:

Details on processing and traffic movements

Further discussion with the site promoter has indicated that, should this site be developed at some time in the future, dry screening of the sand would take place on site, before it was sold and removed from the site. There would not be an on-site washing and sorting plant.

For clarification, it has been estimated that should AS27 be developed as a quarry, it would generate approximately 80 lorry movements per day - that is, 40 lorries in and 40 lorries out. However, this is only an estimate and an accurate figure would not be known unless and until there is a planning application.

UPDATE: Document reference INSP AS27-01 containing a catalogue of all the representations made to AS27 Horton Heath was added to this page on 12 July 2019.