Object

Representation ID: 7144

Received: 17/11/2017

Respondent: Tarmac Trading Ltd

Agent: Heaton Planning

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

It is important at District-level to identify mineral safeguarding areas to ensure that mineral resources are not unnecessarily sterilised by non-minerals development. Minerals safeguarding areas should be included within the Local Plan for parcels of land which have been allocated for sand and gravel working within the latest draft of the Leicestershire MWLP. There is potential for our client's interests at Husbands Bosworth and Shawell to be impacted upon by non-minerals development that would threaten allocated sites in the MWLP. We support inclusion of GD9 but it relies on the Leicestershire County Council Minerals Local Plan for the identification of mineral safeguarding areas.