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At their meeting on 1st November 2016 the County Council’s Planning Committee turned down the application to construct and operate an incinerator bottom ash (IBA) recycling facility accepting 120,000 tonnes pa along with ancillary / welfare facilities and operation of mobile equipment at Sandy Lane Quarry, Wildmoor.

Their reasons for refusal were:

1. The proposal is considered to be inappropriate and accordingly harmful to the Green Belt contrary to Section 9 (Protecting Green Belt land) of the National Planning Policy Framework, Policy WCS 13 of the adopted Worcestershire Waste Core strategy, Policies DS1, DS2 and DS13 of the adopted Bromsgrove District Local Plan, and Policy BDP4 of the draft Bromsgrove District Local Plan in relation to development within the Green Belt.
2. The proposal is considered to be in an unacceptable location contrary to Policy WCS 6 of the adopted Worcestershire Waste Core Strategy.
3. The proposal is considered to have an unacceptable impact upon the open countryside contrary to a core principle of the National Planning Policy Framework as set out at paragraph 17 bullet point 5 and Policy WCS 12 of the adopted Worcestershire Waste Core Strategy.

The Parish Council will meet for an unscheduled meeting on Thursday 1st September to discuss comments to two recently notified planning applications.  The applications are:

1. ref. no 16/0751: The conversion of redundant stables to dwelling at 23 Mount Road
2. ref. no 16/0593: Proposed stables and change of use of land to equestrian at Valley Lodge, Valley Road

The meeting that, as with all parish council meetings, is open to the public, will be at Bournheath Village Community Centre and will start at 7.30pm.

The summary agenda is here – ExtraordinaryBPC meeting 2016-09-01 for planning comments – and full agenda with supporting papers is available under the ‘meetings’ tab.

The death has been announced of Brian Lodge.  Brian was a member of the very first meeting of Bournheath Parish Council on 13th May 1993 and has continuously served the community as a parish councillor for the last twenty-three years.  Brian’s wealth of experience and good humour will be missed by all.

Bournheath Parish Council will be objecting to the plans to install a facility to construct and operate an Incinerator Bottom Ash recycling facility accepting 120,000 tonnes pa along with ancillary / welfare facilities and operation of mobile equipment on site at Sandy Lane quarry, Fairfield B61 0QT.

Worcestershire County Council will be deciding whether to grant permission and have advised they would like to receive all comments relating to the scheme by 15th July 2016.  Residents are urged to submit comments.

A summary of the parish council’s concerns is in the Planning Matters folder under the ‘meetings’ tab and the link to access all the relevant files is at the bottom of that page.

The date of the annual audit – the period during which electors may view the accounts – has been announced. Starting Friday 3rd June the audit will cover the 30-working day period to Thursday 14th July.  If any person is interested in viewing the parish council’s accounts please contact the clerk to arrange a visit.  A copy of the Annual Return for the financial year ending 31/03/2016 is available on this site under the Documents tab, click ‘Finance’ where you will find “2015-16 Annual Return, all papers”.