Object

Representation ID: 5402

Received: 04/01/2024

Respondent: Heidelberg Materials UK

Policy should be strengthened to provide clarity that Ketton Cement Works should be safeguarded. As such safeguarding should include the whole of the Cement Works including the factory and kilns that convert the minerals into final products such as cement and downstream products like bagged cement / concrete products etc, the facilities to distribute the mineral products, and ancillary facilities e.g. fuel storage; rail loading facility and sidings link to the cement works.

Policy MIN6 sets out the need to safeguard existing mineral sites. Include the safeguarding of facilities that handle, process, and distribute cement. Amend MIN6 wording.

Object

Representation ID: 6394

Received: 08/01/2024

Respondent: Hughes Craven Ltd.

In order to avoid unnecessarily preventing non-mineral development where historically permitted mineral extraction is unlikely to resume, MIN6 b) should make it clear that a realistic judgment about the viability, practicability and potential environmental impacts of extraction at a permitted site should be made.

At the planning application stage for a non-minerals development (that is adjacent to a committed minerals extraction site) there is opportunity to demonstrate that the proposed development would not prevent or unreasonably restrict the future extraction of minerals from the adjacent site – this could include for example an assessment of whether, where extraction has ceased, it will likely commence in the future. This is something that will be considered on a site-by-site basis, in line with Local Plan policies.

Support

Representation ID: 7962

Received: 08/01/2024

Respondent: Ryhall Parish Council

MIN6 - Generally Support

Noted.

Object

Representation ID: 7995

Received: 07/01/2024

Respondent: Mr Harold Dermott

Ketton Cement works has detrimental impacts on pollution, creation of dangerous gases and carbon generation in Rutland. This cannot be ignored. Options for management include sequestration and offsetting. please read accompanying report.

Noted. Government policy requires Mineral Planning Authorities to provide a stock of permitted reserves to support maintenance of cement production of at least 15 years for cement primary and secondary materials to maintain an existing plant, such as the Ketton Cement works. Until/if there is a change in national regulations/guidance in relation to cement production and decarbonisation, then the plan preparation will continue in line with the current national guidance.
Where possible recycled and secondary aggregates should be used in place of primary aggregates in order to conserve resources, minimise waste and contribute to the move to a low carbon economy. An increase in the consumption, and production, of recycled and secondary aggregates is supported through the emerging Local Plan.