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Joseph Baum Curtin&Co - Community Engagement Meet the presenters Mark Kelly Helen Hudson Planning Manager – CEMEX Consultant Planner – CEMEX David Shetcliffe Joseph Baum Community Engagement – Curtin&Co Community Engagement – Curtin&Co
Mark Kelly CEMEX Welcome Welcome to our online public exhibition this afternoon, detailing our emerging proposals for Whitehall Farm, which is an allocated site for extraction in Surrey County Council’s Minerals Plan. About CEMEX CEMEX is a leader in the building materials industry, providing high-quality products and a reliable service to both customers and the communities we work in. CEMEX aims to serve the needs of our customers and create value for our stakeholders by becoming the most effjcient and innovative building materials company. CEMEX couples fjnancial achievements with a fjrm commitment to sustainable development. CEMEX currently operate in hundreds of locations across the UK, including in Datchet and Eversley, and we are committed to doing more.
Mark Kelly CEMEX Why do we need minerals and raw materials? According to the UK Government’s own guidance, and as cited in Surrey County Council’s 2011 Mineral Plan, there is a need to maintain at least a seven-year supply of aggregate (sand and gravel) minerals. Without them we cannot build or repair our homes, schools, hospitals, factories, water and sewerage systems, railways and roads. The production and supply of aggregate minerals is monitored annually and currently the County Council is facing a signifjcant shortfall in sand and gravel provision. Minerals can only be worked where they are found and north west Surrey contains workable sands and gravels from the Thames Valley terraces.
Mark Kelly CEMEX What does this mean for Surrey? Every county council or unitary authority is required to produce a Minerals Plan, which identifjes where mineral resources are located in their authority area (minerals can only be worked where they are found) and whether they should be safeguarded from future development. The Plan identifjes the most suitable sites for mineral extraction to meet forecast future demand for housing and infrastructure project needs and is prepared in consultation with key stakeholders and the local community. This is what happened in Surrey, and after many years of consultation and technical surveys, in July 2011 Surrey County Council produced a Minerals Plan and identifjed a number of sites for potential extraction. In Surrey, CEMEX is already working on a site known as Watersplash Farm in Shepperton, which has received consent from Surrey County Council’s Planning Committee in August 2019 after many months of consultation with the community. There is a urgent and pressing need for additional reserves of concreting aggregate Surrey County Council’s Offjcers Report, when considering Watersplash Farm in 2019
Helen Hudson CEMEX Our allocated site: Whitehall Farm Surrey County Council have allocated the site known as Whitehall Farm in their Minerals Plan - this site is referred to in the plan as Preferred Area E. The site is located approximately one mile to the north of Virginia Water station and one mile to the south of Royal Holloway University. THE SITE Map of Egham and the surrounding area
Helen Hudson CEMEX Why now? The site adjoins another site known as Milton Park Farm – Preferred Area D that has been the subject of a planning application submitted by Hanson Limited in 2009. MILTON PARK FARM WHITEHALL FARM As a decade has passed since the Hanson submission to Surrey County Council without any resolution being made CEMEX now consider it appropriate to bring their proposals forward. CEMEX has been monitoring the progress of the Milton Park Farm submission over the last two years. We understand that local residents have had a number of concerns about the Milton Park application. Rather than operating the site “dry”, CEMEX are proposing to operate Whitehall Farm “wet”. CEMEX has been preparing a restoration led planning application for its Whitehall Farm site, that allows for the vital extraction of sand and gravel materials to take place, whilst at the same time being sensitive to the concerns of the local community and environment.
Helen Hudson CEMEX What will CEMEX’s Planning Application include? • Highway Safety and Traffjc Assessment • Landscape Character and Visual Impact Assessment • Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Assessment • Hydro-geological and Flood Risk • Air Quality Assessment • Noise Assessment • Ecological Impact Assessment • Agricultural Quality and Soil Assessment • Geological Assessment • Tree and Hedgerow Assessment • Other Assessments – lighting, airport safeguarding/ birdstrike, impacts on humans, climate change, and cumulative impacts
Helen Hudson CEMEX What will happen at Whitehall Farm? Using a phased approach it is expected that from site set up to restoration the works will take approximately 8 years. Site set up • Access is created. • Plant site erected containing mineral processing plant. • Haulage Road Built. Extraction • The site will be worked in 6 Phases. Phases 1-6 will be worked for sand and gravel over a 5 year period - from year 2 to year 6. • The gravel will be won using a single excavator and the site will be worked wet - meaning that de-watering is not necessary i.e pumping groundwater from the site. • The extracted sand and gravel is sifted, washed, cleaned and sorted in the processing plant into different sizes of aggregate before it is New Access onto exported off site. Stroude Road Site restoration • The site will be restored progressively using inert fjll material. This fjlling would start in year 2 and fjnish in year 7. • To complete restoration stored soils will be placed on the restored site and planted - year 8. Final restoration works will be completed in year 8.
Helen Hudson CEMEX Minimising disruption Rather than opening up the whole site at the beginning of extraction operations, we understand local concerns and want to minimise disruption and impact as much as possible. Not all of the site will be extracted and there will be stand-off margins from nearby residents on Stroude Road, Whitehall Lane and Luddington Avenue and from important trees and hedgerows on site. Key: Phases 1 When will the hours of operation be? Phases 2 The quarry would operate Monday to Friday 7am-6pm Phases 3 and Saturdays 7am-1pm. there would be no working Phases 4 Sundays or on Bank or Public Holidays. Phases 5 Phases 6
Mark Kelly CEMEX Our commitment to restoring the site CEMEX aren’t just experts at extracting the minerals from the ground, they are also experts at restoring it afterwards. They have decades of experience and partner with the RSPB. CEMEX has a landholding of several thousand hectares in the UK. • Since 2010 they have created over 600 hectares of priority habitat – CEMEX has many sites of natural conservation value. • Through their restoration work they are helping to save threatened species • Over 1000 of their employees –almost half their workforce – have been trained on biodiversity initiatives • CEMEX’s restored nature reserves – such as Attenborough in Nottingham or Eversley on the borders of Hampshire are highly valued by local communities • CEMEX’s Rugeley Quarry won the fjrst ever Natural England and MPA biodiversity award On previous sites such as Restoration projects, such as this one at Datchet or Eversley, which are Molesey Reservoir in Surrey, are a key part of currently operational, wildlife is the work that Cemex do on-site being protected and biodiversity is being enhanced.
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