Draft Regulation 18 Sandwell Local Plan
(1) APPENDIX F - Minerals
- The Black Country Minerals Study (BCMS, Tables 12.9 and 12.10) lists all known existing mineral sites and mineral infrastructure sites in the Black Country.
- Existing Black Country mineral infrastructure sites include secondary / recycled aggregates production, rail-linked aggregates depots, coating plants, ready-mix (RMX) concrete batching plants, manufacture of concrete products, and dry silo mortar (DSM) plants.
- The Council will safeguard all existing mineral infrastructure sites from inappropriate development – this being necessary to retain existing capacity, and thereby helping to make best use of and conserve its resources.
- The locations of these mineral infrastructure sites are identified on the Policies Plan, and are listed in the following tables:
Key Mineral Infrastructure
Site Ref |
Site |
Location |
Type |
MIS1 |
Anytime Concrete |
Gerard House, Kelvin Way, West Bromwich |
Concrete batching plant |
MIS2 |
Bescot LDC - Rail Ballast Facility |
Land at Bescot Sidings, off Sandy Lane, Wednesbury |
Rail-related aggregates depot/ Aggregates recycling |
MIS3 |
Breedon Oldbury Concrete Plant |
Engine Street, Oldbury |
Aggregates recycling |
MIS4 |
Breedon Oldbury Concrete Plant |
Cemex House, Wolverhampton Road, Oldbury |
Concrete batching plant |
MIS5 |
Former Hanson Site (West Bromwich) |
Grice Street, West Bromwich |
Aggregates recycling |
MIS6 |
Hanson Ready Mixed Concrete Plant |
Roway Lane, Oldbury |
Concrete batching plant |
MIS7 |
Wednesbury Asphalt Plant |
Smith Road, Wednesbury |
Coating plant |
MIS8 |
Cradley Special Brick |
Corngreaves Trading Estate, Overend Road, Cradley Heat |
Brickworks |
MIS9 |
Oldfields Inert Recycling Facility |
Oldfields, Off Corngreaves Road, Cradley Heath |
Aggregates recycling |
[1] Estimated Total Landfill Capacity in tonnes has been calculated from the remaining landfill capacity in cubic metres at the end of 2018, using the following formula: 0.85 tonne = 1 cubic metre, therefore tonnes = cubic metres x 0.85.