Core Strategy
Minerals and Waste Core Strategy Adopted
Lancashire County, Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen Councils have adopted the Core Strategy for Minerals and Waste.
Following extensive consultation and an independent examination that the Core Strategy will now become the strategic document for future minerals and waste development until 2021.
There is a period in which legal challenges can be made. Details of this are set out below in the adoption statement.
You may be interested in the following documents:
- The Inspector's Report into the Core Strategy
- Sustainability Appraisal for the Adopted Joint Lancashire Minerals and Waste Development Framework Core Strategy Development Plan Document
- Joint Lancashire Minerals and Waste Development Framework Core Strategy Development Plan Document
- Sustainability Statement
To begin the Minerals and Waste Development Framework we are putting in place a Core Strategy that will set the vision and direction – the amounts, broad locations and priorities – for future mineral extraction and waste management.
Importantly, this will guide the more specific locations for any new quarries and waste facilities we need, including sites for recycling and composting facilities, treatment plants, and any possible new landfill sites in the future.
Preparing the Core Strategy will involve a wide range of stakeholders – District and Parish Councils, environmental and community groups, the minerals and waste industries, regional and national agencies – through a series of consultation stages.
The draft Core Strategy has been formally submitted for independent examination to the Secretary of State, in accordance with Regulation 28 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Development)(England) Regulations 2004.
Representations to the Submission draft Core Strategy
A Submission Consultation (Regulation 31) Statement has been prepared which provides details of the consultation process and the main issues raised, and contains a summary of the representations received.
Individual Representations can also be viewed.
Responses have been prepared to each representation
Consultation on the Submission draft Core Strategy
November 2007 to January 2008 has now closed.
Where the consultation documents could be viewed (DPD Matters and statement)
Submission draft Core Strategy ‘Managing our Waste and Natural Resources’
Key Diagram to the Submission draft Core Strategy
Pre-Submission (Regulation 28) Consultation Statement
The current Local Development Scheme anticipates that a pre-examination meeting will take place in March 2008 and the examination hearing in April 2008. Achieving these timescales would mean the Inspector’s Binding Report would be delivered by October 2008 and adoption of the Core Strategy would follow by February 2009.
Earlier consultation stages and the documents published can be viewed below.
Consultation on Preferred Options for the Core Strategy
November 2006 to January 2007
Consulting with the public and other stakeholders on our Preferred Options for the Core Strategy closed on Thursday 11 January 2007.
Where the consultation documents could be viewed
Managing our Waste and Natural Resources - Preferred Options for the Core Strategy
Proposals Matters and Response Form
Sustainability Appraisal to Preferred Options for the Core Strategy
Appendices to the Sustainability Appraisal to Preferred Options for the Core Strategy
Report on Consultation on Issue and Options for the Core Strategy