Comment

Representation ID: 2172

Received: 14/07/2021

Respondent: Norfolk County Council - Minerals and Waste Team

The Mineral Planning Authority is pleased to note the inclusion within the site assessments of its previous comments on the potential allocation sites regarding mineral resource safeguarding. Currently, the reasoned justification for the sites does not include reference to mineral resource safeguarding. We would like to reiterate from our previous comments that the need for mineral resource safeguarding to be addressed needs to be included within the requirements of the respective site’s allocation policy.

The Site assessment for SN0532, at Caistor St. Edmund does not contain reference to the active mineral extraction site within 250m which was mentioned in our previous response. The site assessment should be revised to contain this information.

There are existing residential properties nearer to the active mineral extraction site than the proposed housing location. The active mineral operation has not given rise to complaints from these existing residential properties, regarding amenity impacts from its existing operation and therefore is not expected to cause unacceptable amenity impacts for the proposed housing location.