Minutes for Growth & Infrastructure Scrutiny Committee meeting, Mar 9 2011, 10.00AM official page

A request has been received to call in the decision for scrutiny.

 

 

The following Councillors have requested the decision be called in for

scrutiny:

Councillor Charles Mathew

Councillor Anne Purse

Councillor Melinda Tilley

Councillor Roger Belson

Councillor Michael Badcock

Councillor Iain Brown

Councillor Stewart Lilly

Councillor Marilyn Badcock

Councillor Neil Owen

Councillor Bill Service

Councillor Pete Handley

 

 

The decision was:

 

"RESOLVED:          

 

(a)              To adopt the locally derived figures for aggregates supply requirement in paragraphs 7 and 8 of the report as the basis for the County Council’s preferred spatial strategy approach for mineral working.

 

(b)       to agree the County Council’s preferred spatial strategy approach for mineral working for consultation is:

 

i.           sand and gravel – concentration of working in existing areas of working, at Lower Windrush Valley, Eynsham/ Cassington/Yarnton, Sutton Courtenay, Cholsey and Caversham;

 

ii.    soft sand – working in three existing areas: south east of Faringdon; Tubney/Marcham/Hinton Waldrist; and Duns Tew;

 

iii.   crushed rock – working in three existing areas: north of Bicester to the east of the River Cherwell; south of the A40 near Burford; and south east of Faringdon.

 

(c)        toagree that consultation on the preferred spatial strategy approach for mineral working be combined with consultation on a preferred waste spatial strategy, in June/July 2011. 

 

(d)       the Cabinet Member for Growth & Infrastructure to write to the Secretary of State and the Chairman of the       Planning & Regulation Committee to state that under the Coalition Government’s Localism agenda we now         endorse this as the emerging M3 figure when consideration is given to any application from this date onward."

 

 

 

 

 

The reasons given in the call-in request are:

 

The decision by the Cabinet on 16^th February 2011 Agenda Item 8 b(i) is contrary to the interests of Oxfordshire residents primarily due to insufficient consideration of the issue of sustainability, which would naturally lead to a hybrid solution in the interests of all parties; this implies that too little emphasis has been placed on the problems of crossing the River Thames, since the larger needs for gravel south of the Thames at Grove, Didcot, Harwell and the like should be administered from pits in their local vicinity. This is supported by secondary issues, which together merit reconsideration of the spatial strategy approach, such as spreading the onus, aftercare and infrastructure.

 

 

 

 

 

A copy of the report to Cabinet (CA8) is attached.