This strategic document aims to anticipate the territory's needs for aggregates, ornamental stones, and industrial minerals, while limiting the environmental impacts of their extraction and transport, in a context of ecological transition and high pressure on materials.
The SRC aligns with the objectives of the SRADDET and supports regional policies for housing, mobility, and infrastructure. It considers the needs of major structuring projects, such as the future high-speed rail line Bordeaux–Toulouse, and promotes the use of recycled materials and low-carbon construction.
Local urban planning documents (SCOT, PLU, communal maps) must integrate the SRC within three years. This harmonization will strengthen the link between mineral planning and territorial development, based on updated data for each consumption basin.
The result of broad consultation involving state services, territorial authorities, industry professionals, and environmental, agricultural, and forestry stakeholders, the SRC will be implemented, evaluated, and revised by a monitoring committee.
Created by Article 129 of the ALUR law of March 24, 2014, the SRC defines the general conditions for quarry siting and guidelines for logistics necessary for the sustainable management of aggregates, materials, and quarry substances. It considers national and regional economic interest, resources (including marine and recycled), material needs within and outside the region, protection of landscapes and sensitive natural environments, water resource preservation, balanced land management, ecological transport modes, while promoting local sourcing, rational and efficient resource use, and recycling. It identifies potentially exploitable national or regional deposits, lists existing quarries, sets objectives for impact limitation and monitoring, and outlines site restoration and redevelopment orientations.
The implementing decree of December 15, 2015, specifies the content of future SRCs, as well as the methods and conditions for their development, monitoring, and revision. The SRC is developed by the prefect of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.
