Minerals & Waste Planning Policy

Draft Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan published

The draft Plan has now been published by the partner authorities for a six week period for representations on its 'soundness'. Following this period the draft Plan will be submitted to the Secretary of State alongside the representations. An independent Planning Inspector will then consider the draft Plan at Public Examination on its 'soundness'.

The period for making representations runs from 7 November 2011 to 19 December 2011, after which representations will not be accepted.

The draft Plan, its supporting evidence, and representations forms will be available online, at the partner authority offices, and at local libraries from 7 November 2011.

For more information please visit our Consultation website

What has happened this 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.

You can still view the two consultation documents and the Summary of Responses reports that were produced at:

http://consult.hants.gov.uk

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