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4. SPP 4 continues the landbank approach to planning for the supply of construction aggregates. This approach is intended to ensure that a stock of reserves, with planning permission, is maintained to ensure adequate supplies of minerals over a minimum 10 year period based on current production levels. The 10 year period recognises the likely time scale between an operator deciding that there is a need for a new site and bringing the site into full production.
5. SPP 4 confirms The Scottish Government's view that city regions for the four largest cities should form the principal market areas for the provision of aggregates. Authorities in these regions should work together to provide a landbank of permitted reserves equivalent to a minimum 10 years extraction at all times for the appropriate part of the city region market area. This requirement also extends to some adjoining local authorities, particularly in the Central Belt, where their output contributes to the main market area in the city regions. Elsewhere it will be the responsibility of individual planning authorities to decide on an appropriate 10 year landbank.
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