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Meet the presenters

Mark Kelly Planning Manager – CEMEX Joseph Baum Community Engagement – Curtin&Co Helen Hudson Consultant Planner – CEMEX David Shetcliffe Community Engagement – Curtin&Co

Joseph Baum

Curtin&Co - Community Engagement

Welcome to our online public exhibition this afternoon, detailing our emerging proposals for Whitehall Farm, which is an allocated site for extraction in Surrey County Council’s Minerals Plan. About CEMEX CEMEX is a leader in the building materials industry, providing high-quality products and a reliable service to both customers and the communities we work in. CEMEX aims to serve the needs of our customers and create value for our stakeholders by becoming the most effjcient and innovative building materials company. CEMEX couples fjnancial achievements with a fjrm commitment to sustainable development. CEMEX currently operate in hundreds

• f locations across the UK, including in Datchet and Eversley, and we are committed to doing more.

Welcome

Mark Kelly

CEMEX

Why do we need minerals and raw materials?

According to the UK Government’s own guidance, and as cited in Surrey County Council’s 2011 Mineral Plan, there is a need to maintain at least a seven-year supply of aggregate (sand and gravel) minerals. Without them we cannot build or repair our homes, schools, hospitals, factories, water and sewerage systems, railways and roads. The production and supply of aggregate minerals is monitored annually and currently the County Council is facing a signifjcant shortfall in sand and gravel provision. Minerals can only be worked where they are found and north west Surrey contains workable sands and gravels from the Thames Valley terraces.

Mark Kelly

CEMEX

What does this mean for Surrey?

Every county council or unitary authority is required to produce a Minerals Plan, which identifjes where mineral resources are located in their authority area (minerals can only be worked where they are found) and whether they should be safeguarded from future development. The Plan identifjes the most suitable sites for mineral extraction to meet forecast future demand for housing and infrastructure project needs and is prepared in consultation with key stakeholders and the local community. This is what happened in Surrey, and after many years of consultation and technical surveys, in July 2011 Surrey County Council produced a Minerals Plan and identifjed a number of sites for potential extraction. In Surrey, CEMEX is already working on a site known as Watersplash Farm in Shepperton, which has received consent from Surrey County Council’s Planning Committee in August 2019 after many months of consultation with the community.

There is a urgent and pressing need for additional reserves of concreting aggregate

Surrey County Council’s Offjcers Report, when considering Watersplash Farm in 2019

Mark Kelly

CEMEX

Our allocated site: Whitehall Farm

Helen Hudson

CEMEX

Surrey County Council have allocated the site known as Whitehall Farm in their Minerals Plan - this site is referred to in the plan as Preferred Area E. The site is located approximately one mile to the north of Virginia Water station and one mile to the south of Royal Holloway University.

Map of Egham and the surrounding area THE SITE

Why now?

The site adjoins another site known as Milton Park Farm – Preferred Area D that has been the subject of a planning application submitted by Hanson Limited in 2009. As a decade has passed since the Hanson submission to Surrey County Council without any resolution being made CEMEX now consider it appropriate to bring their proposals forward. CEMEX has been monitoring the progress of the Milton Park Farm submission over the last two years. We understand that local residents have had a number of concerns about the Milton Park application. Rather than operating the site “dry”, CEMEX are proposing to operate Whitehall Farm “wet”. CEMEX has been preparing a restoration led planning application for its Whitehall Farm site, that allows for the vital extraction of sand and gravel materials to take place, whilst at the same time being sensitive to the concerns of the local community and environment.

Helen Hudson

CEMEX

WHITEHALL FARM MILTON PARK FARM

What will CEMEX’s Planning Application include?

• Highway Safety and Traffjc Assessment
• Landscape Character and Visual Impact Assessment
• Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Assessment
• Hydro-geological and Flood Risk
• Air Quality Assessment
• Noise Assessment
• Ecological Impact Assessment
• Agricultural Quality and Soil Assessment
• Geological Assessment
• Tree and Hedgerow Assessment
• Other Assessments – lighting, airport safeguarding/

birdstrike, impacts on humans, climate change, and cumulative impacts

Helen Hudson

CEMEX

What will happen at Whitehall Farm?

Using a phased approach it is expected that from site set up to restoration the works will take approximately 8 years. Site set up

• Access is created.
• Plant site erected containing mineral processing plant.
• Haulage Road Built.

Extraction

• The site will be worked in 6 Phases. Phases 1-6 will be worked for sand

and gravel over a 5 year period - from year 2 to year 6.

• The gravel will be won using a single excavator and the site will be

worked wet - meaning that de-watering is not necessary i.e pumping groundwater from the site.

• The extracted sand and gravel is sifted, washed, cleaned and sorted

in the processing plant into different sizes of aggregate before it is exported off site. Site restoration

• The site will be restored progressively using inert fjll material. This

fjlling would start in year 2 and fjnish in year 7.

• To complete restoration stored soils will be placed on the restored site

and planted - year 8. Final restoration works will be completed in year 8.

Helen Hudson

CEMEX

New Access onto Stroude Road

Minimising disruption

Rather than opening up the whole site at the beginning of extraction operations, we understand local concerns and want to minimise disruption and impact as much as possible. Not all of the site will be extracted and there will be stand-off margins from nearby residents on Stroude Road, Whitehall Lane and Luddington Avenue and from important trees and hedgerows on site. Key: Phases 1 Phases 2 Phases 3 Phases 4 Phases 5 Phases 6 When will the hours of

• peration be?

The quarry would operate Monday to Friday 7am-6pm and Saturdays 7am-1pm. there would be no working Sundays or on Bank or Public Holidays.

Helen Hudson

CEMEX

Our commitment to restoring the site

CEMEX aren’t just experts at extracting the minerals from the ground, they are also experts at restoring it afterwards. They have decades of experience and partner with the RSPB. CEMEX has a landholding of several thousand hectares in the UK. Restoration projects, such as this one at Molesey Reservoir in Surrey, are a key part of the work that Cemex do on-site On previous sites such as Datchet or Eversley, which are currently operational, wildlife is being protected and biodiversity is being enhanced.

• Since 2010 they have created over 600 hectares of

priority habitat – CEMEX has many sites of natural conservation value.

• Through their restoration work they are helping to save

threatened species

• Over 1000 of their employees –almost half their

workforce – have been trained on biodiversity initiatives

• CEMEX’s restored nature reserves – such as

Attenborough in Nottingham or Eversley on the borders

• f Hampshire are highly valued by local communities
• CEMEX’s Rugeley Quarry won the fjrst ever Natural

England and MPA biodiversity award

Mark Kelly

CEMEX

Our Proposed Restoration Plan

Helen Hudson

CEMEX

DRAFT CONCEPT RESTORATION SCHEME Whitehall Farm, Egham, Surrey:

Restoration to Pastoral Agriculture and Nature Conservation

Where will the HGVs travel?

We recognise that HGV movements will be a key concern for local residents on these roads. That is why we are proposing a new access road onto Stroude Road, with a traffjc following an agreed route to access the main primary road network. CEMEX originally proposed HGVs to travel via Virginia Water. However, CEMEX understands the issues that this will cause. Taking this into consideration, CEMEX can confjrm that all HGVs will now travel north along Stroude Road and New Wickham Lane and then go north or south along the B388, avoiding Virginia Water. The traffjc generated by the operations at the site would average around 156 HGV movements (78 HGVs) per day. Any application will be supported by a Highway Safety and Transport Assessment to ensure that the roads have the capacity to support additional HGV traffjc and that this access can be achieved safely.

Helen Hudson

CEMEX

Route 1

B388

Route 2

B388

Key features at Whitehall Farm

CEMEX aren’t just experts at extracting the minerals from the ground, they are also experts at restoring it afterwards. They have decades of experience and partner with the RSPB. CEMEX has a landholding of several thousand hectares in the UK. Land restoration Enhancements to the surrounding area Local liaison Jobs and employment on site The site will be restored progressively with inert fjll material to an agricultural grazing use - the same as existing but with additional biodiversity and nature conservation enhancements to provide a net gain. CEMEX will also look at whether new access links can be provided through the site to link up to existing rights of way crossing the site or in the vicinity. On previous sites such as Datchet or Eversley, which are currently operational, existing green spaces are being reinstated and enhanced. During construction a number of employment

• pportunities will become available. Typically

some of these vacancies are taken up by local residents and this is hoped to also be the case

• n Whitehall Farm.

CEMEX work with the local community and residents and a local liaison group will be established if planning permission is granted to keep everyone informed of progress and to investigate any concerns.

Helen Hudson

CEMEX

Q&A

David Shetcliffe

Curtin&Co - Community Engagement

Feedback

We hope you found this exhibition useful. CEMEX and the team are keen to answer your questions and to hear your views and concerns about what we are proposing. Only then will we look to submitting a Planning Application. You can provide your feedback in three ways: By completing the survey at the end of this presentation By completing the same survey online via our website whitehallfarmsurrey.co.uk/your-feedback By submitting your comments to us in the post, using our contact details

Joseph Baum

Curtin&Co - Community Engagement

Next Steps

We hope you found this exhibition useful. CEMEX and the team are keen to answer your questions and to hear your views and concerns about what we are proposing. Only then will we look to submitting a Planning Application. You can provide your feedback in three ways: End of October December 2020 2021 Deadline for submitting feedback Having considered the feedback from residents, community group and Councillors, CEMEX will submit a Planning Application and Environmental Impact Assessment to Surrey County Council. Surrey County Council’s Planning and Regulatory Committee will review the application, consult and then make a determination at a date yet to be confjrmed. Should the Planning Application be approved, we expect to commence work on site. Using a phased approach it is expected that from site set up to restoration the works will take eight years and will be comprised of six phases. Over the course of seven years the site will be restored progressively using inert material. The eighth and fjnal year will see the complete restoration of the site. 2022/23 By 2023 2031

Joseph Baum

Curtin&Co - Community Engagement