Essex County Council, as the Mineral and Waste Planning Authority, welcomes and fully supports the reference to the Minerals and Waste Local Plans (Paragraph 1.12) and the Document's thorough identification of waste storage and management provision for new development. However, in view of the known minerals resources existing in the District reference should be made to the Mineral Safeguarding Areas and Mineral Consultation Areas identified through Policy S8 (Safeguarding mineral resources and mineral reserves) in the Replacement Minerals Local Plan, January 2013. To ensure compatibility and consistency between the Development Management Document and the Minerals Local Plan a sentence should be added to Paragraph 1.12, to read,
'Parts of Rochford District lie within a Minerals Safeguarding Area and therefore consultation on the proposed development of the site with Essex County Council is required'