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Somerset County Council has published its Minerals Local Plan Preferred Options for consultation.  It includes a number of strategic policies including energy minerals. This report sets out the recommend Bath & North East Somerset response

(1) To AGREE that the assessment forms the basis of the response to the consultation on the Minerals Plan Preferred Options Paper to be forwarded to Somerset County Council to inform the preparation of Somerset County Council’s Pre-submission Minerals Plan.

Although there is an opportunity to comment at every stage in the development of the Minerals Plan, it becomes more difficult to influence its development at later stages.  As Somerset County Council has now reached a stage where the preferred policy direction for minerals has been established it is important that the Council responds to convey any further concerns it may have with regard any potential harmful impacts on Bath and North East Somerset’s key environmental assets, especially the Hot Springs, before the Pre-Submission Minerals Plan is published.

None.