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Sustainable Aggregates Creating Environmental Improvements through Biodiversity • Incorporating strong links with the BAP into the MLP review • Instigating management agreements beyond the first 5 year period on valuable sites • Ensuring that an appropriate ecological assessment is carried out as part of any development Potential Expansion: Means of expanding the influence of the BAP within West Sussex, as detailed in the report, include developing a County environmental awards scheme for mineral sites, and setting up a demonstration site and educational centre to promote good practice. County scale BAPs for minerals sites could potentially be adopted by other MPAs, and provide a more coherent framework for biodiversity considerations in minerals planning and operations across the UK. Dissemination: The BAP includes numerous targets for dissemination of information, including: • Providing advice to stakeholders • Producing and distributing fact sheets and best practice guidelines to site managers • Bringing together case studies to disseminate locally via the working group and nationally via the MIRO website • Reporting and publicising results of research and monitoring • Establishing a communication network to facilitate information exchange • Reporting on activities of the working group to mineral operators • Contributing to consultation on all relevant planning applications • Ensuring land owners and managers are aware of available funding • Distributing a standard reporting form to site managers, to be filed with the Working Group • Storing data in an accessible database (by liaising with Sussex Biodiversity Records Centre) The suggested demonstration site and educational centre would raise awareness both within the industry and among the public. Meetings between mineral operators, site managers and conservation bodies should help to disseminate information as well as to promote closer working practices. The Working Group produced a follow-up Practical Handbook for Promoting Biodiversity on Minerals Sites in West Sussex (title ‘Extracting the Best for Wildlife’) in 2005. This provides useful and succinct guidelines based on the BAP. Dissemination of the BAP, and potentially ‘Extracting the Best for Wildlife’ to other MPAs would be useful. So far the BAP has been distributed to: • WSCC councillors • WSCC planning staff • District Council Planning Officers and environmental staff • Relevant planning officers in the South East (incl. those with an ecological remit) • All people listed in the Sussex Biodiversity Partnership (SxBP) database • West Sussex libraries • Extraction companies operating in the South East (incl. Aggregate Industries UK Ltd., Quarry Products Association and MIRO) • Statutory agencies (SEEDA, NE, EA local and national offices) • NGOs (RSPB, SWT, BTCV, Sussex Ornithological Trust, other Wildlife Trusts) • Ecological consultants • Booth Museum • A few other biodiversity partnerships on request e.g. Tayside, Cotswolds • A few schools and students who requested hard copies The WSCC website continues to record large numbers of downloads particularly for its sister document (Extracting the Best for Wildlife - Ryland, 2005) which acts as a handbook for biodiversity gain on mineral 86
sites. Downloads have been recorded from the mineral industry, planning officers, and environmental officers in France. Distribution formats: • Web download – WSCC website, SxBP website, GoodQuarry.com (Leicester University) - CD (100) • Hard copy (700 as 350 in WSCC format and 350 in SxBP format all bar a few were circulated directly to the above groups) Media: • Local radio interview • Press release • Articles in SxBP newsletter • Article/report for MIRO publications • Members Information Service (WSCC councillors) • Publicised through Association of Local Government Ecologists ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC INFORMATION FOR AGGREGATES PROVISION (BGS, DEFRA, MIRO MIST) EJ Steadman, FM McEvoy, KA Linley, PD Bell, EJ Bee, EL Bartlett, A Napier and J Forster. 2005 Sustainable Aggregates Creating Environmental Improvements through Biodiversity Project Type: Compilation of datasets into GIS Site: East Midlands Project Aim: To provide an interactive ‘tool’ or information system for the minerals industry, land-use planners and other stakeholders to use when considering options for future aggregate provision Main Methods: Compiling data on environmental, economic and social factors into one data set. Phase 1 (previous project)– developing environmental sensitivity maps for use in SEA Phase 2- making this available online, along with data on aggregate resources and technical specifications Output: An online GIS to access the East Midlands Region environmental sensitivity map (from previous project) Desktop GIS version of the data Aggregate end-use suitability maps for the East Midlands (actual use of minerals) Stakeholder consultation exercise and dissemination seminars Impacts (Potential): The mapped locations of minerals in relation to environmentally sensitive areas may help in the pre-planning/ planning stages of considering restoration for biodiversity Potential expansion: Environmental sensitivity mapping was to be carried out for the whole of England by BGS, and made available online by region - new datasets could be added to this layer as they became available. A minerals GIS for England was to be completed by December 2005. Research into end-use suitability maps was to be continued by BGS under its Minerals programme. Dissemination: Informal meetings, telephone discussions and formal seminars were held with stakeholders to provide 87
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