Object

Representation ID: 1191

Received: 28/11/2024

Respondent: Pegasus Grab Hire Ltd

Agent: Emery Planning

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Our client’s current operations at Bott Lane clearly make a significant contribution to the Borough’s
capacity for managing recycled and secondary aggregates. The specialist and progressive nature of the
plant and systems that they have invested in also make a significant contribution to carbon reduction in
the Borough with aggregates for instance now achieving 99% recyclability through the investment in
modern technology that our clients have made.

Policy DLP80 seeks to maintain the current level of production of secondary and recycled aggregates over
the plan, however, this would not be possible without the continued operation of the existing facility at
Bott Lane, beyond the timeframe of the existing temporary planning permission, especially as our client’s
facility alone has approaching 3 times the capacity of the other facilities set out above combined.

It is therefore considered that the site should be safeguarded and identified through the plan as forming part the boroughs minerals infrastructure given the fundamental role that it plays.

Comment

Representation ID: 1521

Received: 29/11/2024

Respondent: Canal and River Trust

Inclusion of the canal network within relevant policy and justification text will enable developers to identify canal related constraints at early stage and engage with the Trust. Trust requests ongoing engagement from the Council on submitted pre-application enquiries and encourages developers to seek pre-application advice directly.