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This page sets out in chronological order recent consultation responses submitted by the Quarry Products Association on behalf of its member companies within the field of planning.

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Draft Heritage Protection Bill 25/06/08

QPA's response makes clear that the transition to the new system must be properly managed to take into account that the planning system uses a well established hierarchical approach to assess the weight that should be attached to heritage designations based upon the current categories. That hierarchy must be maintained.

 Ken Hobden 84kb Microsoft Word document help
Draft Guidelines for Aggregates Provision in England 2005 - 2020 25/06/08

This response stresses that QPA is broadly satisfied that the Revised Guidelines can fulfil their principal function in providing for an adequate and steady supply of aggregate materials. QPA believes that only where the Guidelines are clearly shown not to be in accord with the objectives of MPS1 should they be reviewed.

 Ken Hobden 86kb Microsoft Word document help
Surrey County Council Minerals and Waste Development Framework 05/06/08

QPA response to Surrey County Council on their Proposed amendments to Core Strategy, a Silica Sand document and Policy option for non-aggregate minerals. One concern was how Surrey are consulting on matters which QPA believe are more than minor amendments.

 Andrew Bromley 111kb Microsoft Word document help
Cumbria County Council Minerals and Waste Development Framework
30/05/08

QPA consultation response to Cumbria County Council in respect of their Submission Draft Core Strategy and Submission Draft Development Control Policies. QPA questioned their landbank provision and safeguarding approach in the DC polices.

 Andrew Bromley 104kb Microsoft Word document help
Wiltshire & Swindon Councils Minerals and Waste Development Framework
 14/05/08

QPA response to Wiltshire County Council and Swindon Borough Council on their recent consultation. Comments were made regarding the Submission Draft Minerals Core Strategy Development Plan Document. QPA highlighted concerns of how the plan is not in accordance with national policy.

Andrew Bromley 105kb Microsoft Word document help
Black Country Joint Strategy Unit Minerals and Waste Development Framework
 28/04/08

QPA response to Black Country in respect of their Preferred Options Minerals and Waste Core Strategy. Concerns were highlighted; however without proposed policies in place it is difficult to make any meaningful comments.

 Andrew Bromley 105kb Microsoft Word document help
Buckinghamshire County Council Minerals and Waste Development Framework
 25/04/08

QPA consultation response to Buckinghamshire County Council in respect of their Preferred Options version of the Minerals and Waste Core Strategy. QPA highlighted concerns with their approach to safeguarding and recommended other alterations.

 Andrew Bromley 105kb Microsoft Word document help

East Sussex and Brighton & Hove Councils Waste and Minerals Development Framework

 24/04/08

QPA response to East Sussex and Brighton & Hove. Comments were made regarding their recent Issues and Options Consultation of the Waste and Minerals Core Strategy DPD and Minerals Sites DPD.

Andrew Bromley 107kb Microsoft Word document help
Consultation on Proposals for Transposition of EU Directive 2006/21/EC in England and Wales
 10/04/08

The QPA sets out its strong opposition to the support that the consultation document gives to the Environment Agency as the Government's Preferred Option as principal competent authority

 Ken Hobden 102kb Microsoft Word document help
Tees Valley Joint Strategy Unit Minerals and Waste Development Plan Documents
 9/04/08 QPA response to Tees Valley Preferred Options Consultation. Comments were made on both the Core Strategy DPD and Policies & Sites DPD. Andrew Bromley 112kb Microsoft Word document help
Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority Minerals and Waste Development Framework 7/04/08 QPA consultation response to Pembrokeshire Coast NPA in respect of their Local Development Plan and Park Management Plan. QPA/BMAPA highlighted concerns with the Park Management Plan regarding the marine aggregate dredging section.
 Andrew Bromley 113kb Microsoft Word document help
Norfolk County Council Minerals and Waste Development Framework 27/03/08 QPA consultation response to Norfolk County Council in respect of their Minerals and Waste Development Framework. QPA highlighted many concerns with the Minerals and Waste Core Strategy and Development Control DPD Andrew Bromley 115kb Microsoft Word document help
New PPS4: Planning for Sustainable Economic Development 17/03/08 In this response, QPA supports the renewed emphasis placed on development as a vital component of economic growth and sustainable communities. However, QPA feel that the document fails to recognise the matters that are unique to the consideration of minerals proposals through the planning system: minerals can only be worked where they occur and their extraction demands special consideration as a result. Ken Hobden 105kb Microsoft Word document help
Gloucestershire County Council Minerals and Waste Development Framework Minerals Core Strategy 13/03/08 QPA submits its response to the consultation questionnaire on the Gloucestershire County Council Minerals and Waste Development Framework Minerals Core Strategy. Andrew Bromley 105kb Microsoft Word document help
North Yorkshire County Council Minerals and Waste Development Framework Minerals Core Strategy 28/02/08 A consultation response setting out several amendments to the North Yorkshire County Council Minerals and Waste Development Framework Minerals Core Strategy. Andrew Bromley 123kb Microsoft Word document help
Vale of Glamorgan Local Development Plan Draft Preferred Strategy Pre-Deposit Consultation 26/02/08 A consultation response in which QPA states that policy CSP9 should refer to how the 10 year landbank will be calculated, maintained and achieved. Policy CSP9 should also refer to the current landbank reserves, which already have planning permission.

Andrew Bromley 103kb Microsoft Word document help
Thurrock Local Development Framework Core Strategy, Policies for Control of Development and Site Specific Allocations 21/02/08 A consultation response to Thurrock County Council with regard to the Local Development Framework Core Strategy, Policies for Control of Development and Site Specific Allocations. QPA feels that the apparent sharing of the minerals policy content of this LDF between the Core Strategy and Policies for the Control of Development DPD and the Minerals and Waste Plan DPD is confusing and unjustified.
 Ken Hobden 105kb Microsoft Word document help
Consultation - Streamlining Local Development Frameworks 18/02/08 This consultation response highlights QPA's concern that all of the proposals in the document are predicated on the need to facilitate the consideration of housing development, while this is only one category out of many that the Local Development Framework system must address. In the Draft PPS12, there is little discussion of the role of the planning system and LDFs in conserving natural resources such as minerals. Ken Hobden 119kb Microsoft Word document help
Planning Performance Agreements: a new way to manage large-scale major planning applications 17/08/07 A consultation paper setting out CLG proposals to introduce a new optional service for project managed planning applications. For an additional fee, applicants for planning permission could opt for their application to be dealt with to a timescale agreed with the planning authority and set out in a Planning Performance Agreement. The QPA see little benefit for applicants with such a system. Ken Hobden 181kb Microsoft Word document help
Improving the Appeal Process in the Planning System 17/08/07 A consultation paper setting out CLG proposals to bring the appeal system in line with the resources available to deliver it. The proposals include a mechanism for dealing with minor appeals locally and the introduction of an appeal fee. The QPA is particularly concerned with the proposal that the Inspector should determine the method by which evidence would be presented and that new information cannot be introduced if it was not available at the time the original determination was made. Ken Hobden 187kb Microsoft Word document help
Planning Fees in England – Proposals for Change 17/08/07 A consultation paper setting out CLG proposals for increases in the fees payable for planning applications. The proposals would represent a significant increase in cost to the quarrying industry. Of greatest significance are the proposals to remove the current £50k “cap” on applications, to make the fee directly related to the area of the application and the proposal to charge a full application fee for applications to vary a planning condition (“Section 73” applications) Ken Hobden 199kb Microsoft Word document help
Planning for a Sustainable Future 17/08/07 A White Paper setting out proposals for reforms to the planning system in line with the recommendations of the Barker Review. It focuses on a new system for considering Nationally Significant Infrastructure projects; a category which does not include minerals development. Ken Hobden 190kb Microsoft Word document help
Heritage Protection for the 21st Century 01/06/07 A White Paper setting out proposals for a new legislative framework for heritage protection and a new system of heritage designation. The QPA response focuses on concerns over the abandonment of the existing designations in favour of new categories that are too vaguely defined. Ken Hobden 31kb Microsoft Word document help
Conservation Principles Policies and Guidance for the Sustainable Management of the Historic Environment 11/05/07 Extensive objections: principally to the abandonment of established heritage designations in favour new ill-defined ones. Ken Hobden 47kb Microsoft Word document help
Paying Planning Gain Supplement 27/02/07 The response was made without prejudice to the QPA view that PGS should not apply to minerals development. Extensive comments were made in response to specific questions set out in the document. Ken Hobden 47kb Microsoft Word document help
Valuing Planning Gain 27/02/07 The process of valuing the uplift in land value following the granting of a mineral planning permission is considerably more complex and subjective than with other forms of development. Ken Hobden 43kb Microsoft Word document help
Changes to Planning Obligations 27/2/07 The proposals would not address planning matters as effectively as the current system of Section 106 Agreements Ken Hobden 42kb Microsoft Word document help
Mineral Extraction and the Historic Environment 9/01/07 As written, it portrays the extractive industry as acting irresponsibly and in an uncontrolled manner towards the Historic Environment, when the truth is exactly the opposite. The industry is highly regulated. Ken Hobden 46kb Microsoft Word document help
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