Strategy to meet future sand supply (FOI)

Request

What are the plans for locally sourced building sand supply and the future plans, please.

Response

The current adopted strategy for meeting the Island’s requirements for aggregates, including sand, is set out in chapter 10 of the Revised 2011 Island Plan, which is already in the public domain on www.gov.je and can be found online at the following link:

Consultation portal: Mineral resources

Therefore the information is exempt under Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 because the information is already accessible to you on the government website.

Article applied

Article 23 Information accessible to applicant by other means

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.