Bournemouth Borough Council's Planning Board determines all applications for minerals and waste disposal development in the Borough, and also exercises the strategic minerals and waste disposal function within the area. However, under an agreement, Bournemouth Council is advised on strategic minerals and waste planning matters by officers of Dorset County Council.
Adopted Policy
A Minerals and Waste Local Plan covering Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole was adopted in April 1999. Copies of the Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole Minerals and Waste Local Plan can be viewed on the 'Dorset for You' website. To view the adopted Minerals and Waste Local Plan click here.
Since then, the policies dealing with waste and waste management facilities have been revised and the new Waste Local Plan was adopted on 30 June 2006. Copies of the Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole Waste Local Plan can be viewed on the 'Dorset for You' website. To view the adopted Waste Local Plan and for more information please click here.
The adopted ‘waste local plan’ and ‘minerals and waste local plan’ forms part of the current development plan covering the Borough.
The Planning & Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 introduced fundamental changes to the Development Plan system in England, in particular the replacement of Minerals and Waste Local Plans with the new Local Development Framework.
As part of this transition, local planning authorities were allowed to ‘save’ existing minerals and waste policies for a period of three years from the commencement date of the Act (September 2004), thereby allowing policies to remain in force up to September 2007.
The Act recognised that it might be necessary to save policies beyond three years, and introduced a procedure whereby local planning authorities could make a request for a Direction from the Secretary of State to save policies beyond September 2007, or to delete policies even where they had not been formally replaced by those in the Local Development Framework. The Government requested that all authorities should submit a list of those policies it wishes to save or to delete, to the Government regional offices by 1 April 2007.
Bournemouth Borough Council in conjunction with the Borough of Poole and Dorset County Council has reviewed all of the Dorset Minerals and Waste Local Plan 1999 and submitted a formal request to the Secretary of State to save or delete policies after September 2007.
A copy of the Secretary of State’s decision and schedule of policies for saving can be viewed below.
Saved Policies Schedule
Accompanying letter from GOSW
Letter from GOSW – Schedule 8
Emerging Policy
Changes introduced by the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act include the replacement of Local Plans with a system of Development Documents. The mineral policies in the Minerals and Waste Local Plan are saved until September 2007. The waste policies within this plan are not saved as the new Waste Local Plan supersedes them and will also be saved for 3 years. In the interim Dorset County Council is preparing a replacement Minerals & Waste Development Framework which is a portfolio containing several separate documents which will provide the framework for delivering minerals and waste policy for Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole.
More Information
For more information on matters relating to minerals and waste please contact:
John Bennett at Dorset County Council (01305 224252) j.a.bennett@dorsetcc.gov.uk
Emma Woolway at Dorset County Council (01305 228585)
e.c.woolway@dorsetcc.gov.uk
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