Recommenced Site Allocations Work

Cumbria Minerals and Waste Development Framework

Recommenced work on the Site Allocations Policies and Proposals Map

The Minerals and Waste Development Framework’s Site Allocations Policies and Proposals Map will identify the sites that will be needed in Cumbria (outside the two National Parks) for working and safeguarding minerals and for managing waste over the period to 2020.

The County Council consulted about sites in 2006 and 2007 but then postponed further work on them until the Framework’s Core Strategy had progressed. That stage has been reached and work on identifying sites recommenced in February.

We carried out this additional round of consultations because more sites are now being considered and we needed to give people another opportunity to make comments. A revised list of the sites that are being considered can be found below, together with maps showing them. It is stressed that these are sites that are being considered, and that no decisions have been made yet about which ones the Council will be proposing.

Any representations about what the Site Allocations Policies and Proposals Map should contain needed to be received by Monday 6th July 2009.

It is intended that details of the County Council’s preferred sites will be published for consultation in October.

List of Sites that are being considered

Quarries

Mineral Safeguarding Areas

It is proposed that the basis for these will be the extent of resources of sand and gravel, limestone, sandstone, igneous rock, shallow coal and fireclay and remaining gypsum, as shown on the British Geological Survey Mineral Resources Maps.

In connection with these, site M28 Broughton Moor has been put forward for consideration as a specific area for safeguarding shallow coal resources, because it has already been identified for surface development. Another site, AL32 at Siddick has been put forward for consideration as a site to be safeguarded as a potential railhead which could serve Broughton Moor.

Waste Management

Sites of around 0.5 hectare for Household Waste Recycling Centres