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Minerals and Waste Local Plan - Issues and Options

Minerals and Waste Local Plan - Issues and Options

Surrey County Council, as the Minerals and Waste Planning Authority, is preparing a new Minerals and Waste Local Plan for Surrey to provide an up to date minerals and waste planning framework for a period of 15-years.

About the project

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ABOUT THE PROJECT

The Minerals and Waste Local Plan will replace the Surrey Minerals Plan 2011 (and associated development plan documents) and the Surrey Waste Local Plan 2019, and be used to guide decisions about future minerals and waste management planning applications. It will also be a material consideration for Surrey’s district and borough councils in preparing their local development plans and making their planning decisions.

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The Issues and Options public consultation is the first formal stage of the plan-making process relating to the Minerals and Waste Local Plan. The consultation material is framed by several introductory and contextual documents and includes six main documents outlining the proposed vision, objectives and spatial strategy; and issues facing minerals and waste management development in Surrey and the potential policy options to address those issues. These main documents are underpinned by a Strategic Environmental Assessment and Sustainability Scoping Report and supplemented by a range of other material including an interactive story-map tool and a number of position statements. The Issues and Options public consultation also includes a ‘call for sites’ which is an invitation to landowners and the minerals and waste management industry to nominate any land that may be suitable for future minerals or waste management development.

The Minerals and Waste Planning Authority welcomes the engagement of and feedback from all stakeholders over the 16-week consultation period (15 November 2021 to 7 March 2022) irrespective of their field of interest or expertise, or resources available to them. Some stakeholders may wish to engage with all the consultation material and others may simply wish to answer the relevant non-technical questions. Stakeholders who are unable to engage with the digital consultation package may wish to contribute to the public consultation using traditional methods such as physical inspection of the consultation documents to be made available at public libraries in each of Surrey’s districts and boroughs and by writing to the Minerals and Waste Planning Authority.

Milestones

Issues and Options

November 2021 - March 2022
The Minerals and Waste Planning Authority will consult stakeholders about the various issues and planning policy options that could define the Minerals and Waste Local Plan over the relevant 15-year plan-period. This follows initial evidence gathering and review of data and information about key issues. Stakeholders are invited to provide their views on the issues important to them in the context of minerals and waste management development in Surrey and any policy options they favour. Stakeholders are also able to provide their views about the Strategic Environmental Appraisal and Sustainability Assessment Scoping report which underpins the Issues and Options public consultation. This consultation is not concerned with identifying or allocating any land for any minerals and waste management development but does include a ‘call for sites'.

Preferred Options

June 2022
Having regard to all material representations made by stakeholders in respect of the Issues and Options public consultation and any nominations made in response to the ‘call for sites’, the Minerals and Waste Planning Authority will consult stakeholders about the preferred policy options to address the key issues identified relevant to future minerals and waste management development in Surrey. This public consultation will include draft planning policies and proposed sites or areas of land to be identified or otherwise allocated or safeguarded for future minerals and waste management development. Stakeholders are invited to provide their views on the proposed policies and site/land designations. The Preferred Options public consultation will be underpinned by a Strategic Environmental Appraisal and Sustainability Assessment which has taken account of any relevant material feedback received during the Issues and Options public consultation.

Pre-Submission Plan

Early 2024
Having taken account of responses received during the Preferred Options public consultation and the findings of the Strategic Environmental Appraisal and Sustainability Assessment, the Minerals and Waste Planning Authority will publish a draft Minerals and Waste Local Plan for public consultation before it is submitted to the Government for ‘examination’ by an independent Inspector appointed by the Planning Inspectorate on behalf of the Secretary of State. The Pre-Submission Plan public consultation will be underpinned by a Strategic Environmental Appraisal and Sustainability Assessment. Stakeholders will be invited to provide their views about the draft Minerals and Waste Local Plan and the Strategic Environmental Appraisal and Sustainability Assessment. The Minerals and Waste Planning Authority may decide to make changes to the draft plan following consideration of material representations received during the relevant consultation period and carry out a further public consultation exercise should any such changes be significant.

Submission Plan and Independent Examination

Early 2024 - Mid 2024
At this stage the final draft Minerals and Waste Local Plan will be submitted to the Government. An independent Inspector holds an ‘examination in public’ to establish whether the draft plan is ‘sound’ having regard to the associated Strategic Environmental Appraisal and Sustainability Assessment and evidence. The examination exercise hears evidence from any stakeholder who wishes to make a submission on any of the key issues or questions highlighted by the Inspector. The Inspector considers all of the evidence and representations made at each stage of the plan-making process. The Inspector can recommend adoption where it is resolved that the draft plan satisfies legal requirements and is ‘sound’.

Inspectors Report and Adoption

Late 2024 - End 2024
Surrey County Council will only be able to adopt the Minerals and Waste Local Plan if the Inspector has recommended it for adoption. In a scenario where the Inspector may find the draft plan not ‘sound’ the Minerals and Waste Planning Authority may ask the Inspector to make recommendations for modifications to the draft plan so as to make it ‘sound’ and suitable for adoption. Where such a request has been made the Inspector will publish recommendations in a report and Surrey County Council will only be able to adopt the Minerals and Waste Local Plan in line with any such ‘main modifications’. The Minerals and Waste Planning Authority will also be able to make non-material changes to the draft plan (called ‘additional modifications) at any time before its adoption. The Minerals and Waste Planning Authority may also withdraw the draft plan at any stage prior to its adoption. All being well, Surrey County Council will ‘adopt’ the draft Minerals and Waste Local Plan at one of its formal meetings at which time the plan-making process is concluded, unless there is a legal challenge against the decision to adopt the plan.


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Postal enquires can be made to: Planning Group, Surrey County Council, Quadrant Court, Woking, GU22 7QQ

Meet the team

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Surrey County Council’s Minerals and Waste Policy Team is responsible for preparing development plan documents and monitoring the performance of planning policies relating to minerals and waste management development to ensure, inter alia, that there is sufficient supply of minerals and adequate sustainable waste management capacity in Surrey. The team is also responsible for coordinating and responding to National and local planning consultations on behalf of the Minerals and Waste Planning Authority, safeguarding minerals resources and waste management facilities in Surrey, and working closely with neighbouring planning authorities and the minerals and waste management industry. For information about how Surrey County Council will use data from this Commonplace website please see the Privacy policy below.

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