From: Rachel.Cutler@kent.gov.uk [mailto:Rachel.Cutler@kent.gov.uk]
Sent: 25 May 2012 17:59
To: dave@davemotley.co.uk
Subject: Kent County Council Mineral and Waste Site Plans - Preferred Options Consultation
Sent: 25 May 2012 17:59
To: dave@davemotley.co.uk
Subject: Kent County Council Mineral and Waste Site Plans - Preferred Options Consultation
Dear Consultee,
Formal Notice of the Preparation of Kent
-Mineral Sites Plan ‘Preferred Options’ Stage Consultation,
and
-Waste Sites Plan ‘Preferred Options’ Stage Consultation
Kent County Council is part way through the process of preparing
new Minerals and Waste Local Plans. The final framework will be in three parts
– The Minerals and Waste Plan (formerly called the Core Strategy), a Mineral
Sites Plan and a Waste Sites Plan.
This email[1] is to notify you and invite you to
join the consultation on the current versions of the documents, which are at an
important stage in their preparation.
You are invited to give us your views on:
- what these documents
should contain;
- the proposed preferred
option sites for minerals extraction and supply and waste management;
- the sites not
selected as preferred options;
- the evidence base that
has been prepared to inform the plans (including the draft Local Aggregate
Assessment, the Waste Needs Assessment update, the accompanying Interim
Sustainability Appraisal, the Habitat Regulations Assessment, the
Strategic Flood Risk Assessments and details explaining how the site
assessment process was carried out).
The Mineral Sites and the Waste Sites Plans consultation at
this ‘preferred options’ stage is the second time we have asked for your
views in the process of preparing these plans. The responses from the 2011 site
plans consultations at ‘options’ stage have assisted us in the site assessment
and selection process, and are saved as part of the evidence base. Both
documents now identify the sites that are considered to be the best and most
sustainable sites needed by Kent
for minerals and waste management up to the end of 2030. There are now 25
preferred option sites for mineral supply and 21 preferred option sites for
waste management. The remaining sites are identified as ‘not allocated’ sites.
We would like your views on these preferred options. The
responses received from this second round of consultations will help us with
the preparation of the final plans.
These consultations close at 5pm on Monday 23 July 2012.
To submit your views we recommend that you use our
online consultation portat atl http://consult.kent.gov.uk/portal
to inspect the consultation documents and evidence base topic papers, and the
accompanying Sustainability Assessment Commentary and Habitat Regulations
Assessment Report.
If you prefer, you can email your comments to mwdf@kent.gov.uk or write to us at: MWLP
Project Team, Planning and Environment, Kent County Council, Invicta House, Maidstone , Kent
ME14 1XX
You can inspect copies of the two main consultation
documents at the main Kent County Council offices[2], in Gateways,
and in local libraries.
Please contact us at the
addresses above or visit our website www.kent.gov.uk/mwdf
for further information.
Yours faithfully
Lillian Harrison
Minerals and Waste Planning
Policy Manager
[1] made in accordance
with Regulation 25 of Town and Country Planning (Local Development) (England)
Regulations 2004 (SI 2004/2204) (as amended by the Town and Country Planning
(Local Development) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (SI 2008/1371) and
the Town and Country Planning (Local Development) (England) (Amendment)
Regulations 2009
[2] Sessions House, Maidstone; Joynes House,
Gravesend; Kroner House, Ashford; Kings Hill Office, West Malling; St. Peter's
House, Broadstairs.
