Background information
Every 10 years the Minerals and Waste department at Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) puts out a call requesting submissions for potential sites for the extraction of minerals and the provision of waste sites along with a detailed site assessment. A potential site at Lea Marshes (land across the A156 from Lea Park and down to the River Trent) was submitted (to become known as site SG01). A public consultation was carried out last summer and as part of that process LPC was contacted for their views on the development of site SG01. LPC submitted a statement of concern with regards to the development of this site listing 14 possible constraints. Subsequently SG01 was not included as a site for proposed allocation and therefore was discounted.
LCC subsequently provided an opportunity for further information to be submitted if a site had not been included in the previous listing. A document was submitted by London Rock Supplies Ltd on behalf of the landowners of site.
The Minerals and Waste Department at LCC are currently in the process of compiling and reviewing the representations made as a result of this. They will then update the site assessment and selection process with additional information and make any necessary amendments as to which sites are identified for proposed allocation in the proposed plan.
This is the stage we are currently at.
Later this year or early next this draft plan will go out for consultation and responses will inform the final version, incorporating the complete list of proposed sites. This will be sent to the Secretary of State for a formal public examination before it can be recommended for adoption by LCC.
According to The Waste and Minerals Team: ‘A final decision regarding whether SG01 is included as an allocation in the Minerals and Waste Local Plan will not therefore be made until the plan is adopted at the end of this process’
LCC will produced an updated timetable outlining the next stages of the process. They will notify Parish Councils at the next consultation stage. Any planning permission and associated consents is a separate process that is required before development can take place within a site.