Decisions for issue Partial Review of Regional Spatial Strategy for South East - Review of Sub Regional Apportionment of Land-Won Aggregates

(1)   That the Cabinet Member for Environment approves a response to the Government that:

(a)       Welcomes the review to the sub regional apportionment and notes that the methodology proposed needs to continue to recognise the particular circumstances of East Sussex/Brighton & Hove, which has low production of land won resources and that they exist in the very far east of East Sussex County and the City relies heavily on marine dredged aggregates for local construction.

(b)       Notes that  the City Council supports the County Council in supporting a sub regional allocation for East Sussex / Brighton & Hove of 0.07m tonnes pa and would object to any increase in this allocation;

(c)       Notes that  the City Council agrees with the County Council in not supporting the splitting of the apportionment to separately identify soft sand; see 3.3 / 3.4.