Local Plans

Under the former planning system, Local Plans were prepared to provide a planning framework for minerals and waste. Since changes to the planning system, the Minerals and Waste Core Strategy is being prepared.

The Core Strategy will, once adopted, replace the Minerals Local Plan (MLP) and the Waste Local Plan Revised Deposit Draft (WLP). Until the Core Strategy is adopted, certain policies from the adopted MLP have been saved.

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Waste Local Plan

In December 2005, we decided to discontinue preparation of the Waste Local Plan (WLP) as a result of considerable legal and financial risks into continued preparation of the Plan.

Work undertaken to date on the WLP will now feed into the preparation of the Minerals and Waste Core Strategy.

Download the Plan

View the revised deposit draft (from July 2004) of the Waste Local Plan (PDF, 95 pages, 797KB).

Minerals Local Plan

The aims of the Minerals Local Plan 2003 are:

• to set out the County Council's vision, objectives and strategy for mineral land-use planning in West Sussex;
• to provide a detailed policy framework for determining mineral planning applications;
• to set out the existing sites and commitments and new site allocations for minerals development.
  
  

Saved policies

Under the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, the policies of the adopted West Sussex Minerals Local Plan were due to expire on 27 September 2007 unless the Government decided that they should be saved for a longer period.

Following representations from the County Council, the Government has decided that 9 of the 64 policies will not be saved beyond 27 September 2007.

Read the letter from the Government Office for the South East (PDF, 6 pages, 88KB).

The policies not saved are:

• 23-24 (New Minerals Workings);
• 25 (Reclamation);
• 28 (Oil and Gas);
• 43-46 (Planning Applications);
• 50 (Surveys).
  
  

The saved policies will continue to form part of the statutory 'development plan' and provide the local policy framework for development control decisions until they are replaced by new documents to be prepared as part of the Minerals and Waste Development Framework.

Download the Plan

Contents

Part 1 Introduction (PDF, 8 pages, 182KB)
Part 2 Context (PDF, 18 pages, 262KB)
Part 3 Conserving Minerals Resources (PDF, 6 pages, 53KB)
Part 4 Protecting the Environment (PDF, 14 pages, 95KB)
Part 5 Meeting Need (PDF, 12 pages, 255KB)
Part 6 Control of Workings (PDF, 10 pages, 83KB)
Part 7 Implementation (PDF, 1 page, 30KB)

Proposed sites

Proposals Map (PDF, 2 pages, 169KB)

Proposed gravel sites

Drayton (Sites 1 and 72) Inset Map A (PDF, 3 pages, 219KB)
Kingsham (Sites 7 and 51) Inset Map B (PDF, 3 pages, 254KB)
Lavant Re-opening (Site 43) Inset Map C (PDF, 4 pages, 235KB)
Slades Field (Sites 36 and 37) Inset Map D (PDF, 3 pages, 213KB)
Westhampnett (Site 5) Inset Map E (PDF, 3 pages, 226KB)
Woodmancote (Sites 35 and 53) Inset Map F (PDF, 4 pages, 250KB)

Proposed sand sites

Dunford Rough (Site Number 20) Inset Map G (PDF, 3 pages, 308KB)
West Heath (Site Number 26) Inset Map H (PDF, 3 pages, 285KB)

Safeguarded rail sites

Safeguarded Rail Sidings at Chichester Inset Map I (PDF, 1 page, 288KB)
Safeguarded Rail Sidings at Horsham Sidings Inset Map J (PDF, 1 page, 343KB)
Safeguarded Rail Sidings at Littlehampton Inset Map K (PDF, 1 page, 285KB)

Proposed wharfage

Littlehampton Proposed Wharf (Site 11) Inset Map L (PDF, 3 pages, 270KB)

Appendices

Appendix 1 Regional Aggregates Policy (PDF, 2 pages, 33KB)
Appendix 2 West Sussex Structure Plan (PDF, 2 pages, 34KB)
Appendix 3 Aggregate Provision (PDF, 3 pages, 44KB)
Appendix 4 Safeguarded Existing Railheads, Wharves and Depots (PDF, 1 page, 27KB)
Rail Depots - Ardingly and Crawley Map 1 (PDF, 1 page, 229KB)
Wharf Site - Littlehampton Map 2 (PDF, 1 page, 245KB)
Mineral Wharves Sites - Shoreham Map 3 (PDF, 1 page, 276KB)
Minerals Processing and Distribution Site, Portfield, Chichester Map 4 (PDF, 1 page, 246KB)
Appendix 5 Glossary (PDF, 5 pages, 62KB)