Minerals & Waste Planning Policy

Draft Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan submitted

After publishing the draft Plan for a six week period for representations on its 'soundness', the Plan has been submitted to the Secretary of State alongside the representations received. An independent Planning Inspector will now consider the draft Plan at Public Examination on its 'soundness'.

The current process will include public hearing sessions (likely to be 6 – 15 June 2012), with the exact dates posted on our Consultation website and advertised in local papers at least 6 weeks in advance. Normally, only those who have responded to the Plan when it was published (7 November – 19 December 2011) will be contacted by the Inspector for any further information or with invitations to participate in the hearing sessions of the examination. However, anyone can attend and observe the hearing sessions.

For more information please visit our Consultation website

What has happened last year?

Several years of work have culminated in spring 2011 with the public consultation on the suggested approach set out in Have Your Say on Planning for Hampshire’s Minerals and Waste, and a later, smaller Have Your Say – Additional Mineral Issues. Through these two consultations and through ongoing engagement we have received thousands of comments.

A New Approach

Our new approach is to develop a single Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan - this will save time and money and builds on our adopted Core Strategy (2007). With the quashing of some of the policies wthin the Core Strategy, there is an opportunity to update and review the plan in its entireity.

Our current timetable for the new approach is detailed within our Development Scheme