North Yorkshire County Council's Mineral Local Plan contains policies which need to be taken into consideration while drawing up a planning application for minerals development and which the Council must have regard to when deciding such applications. The policies were due to expire on the 27 September 2007, but the Secretary of State has allowed some policies to be extended, or 'saved' until policies being developed in the Minerals and Waste Development Framework supersede them.
The 'saved' policies will continue to form part of the statutory 'development plan' and provide the local policy framework for development control decisions until they are replaced by ones in the MWDF. The original Minerals Local Plan is displayed below, but reference to 'saved' policies must be made when considering future development.
Policy | Saved | Not Saved |
Chapter 3 Mineral Extraction and Resource Protection | | |
3/1 - Landbanks | | √ |
3/2 - Preferred Areas | √ | |
3/3 - Areas of Search | √ | |
3/4 - Other Areas | √ | |
3/5 - Building Sand, Non Aggregate and Energy Minerals | | √ |
3/6 - Mineral Consultation | | √ |
3/7 - Mineral Sterilisation | | √ |
3/8 - Secondary and Recycled Aggregates | | √ |
Chapter 4 - Environmental Protection | | |
4/1 - Determination of Planning Applications | √ | |
4/2 - Best and Most Versatile Agricultural Land | | √ |
4/3 - Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty | | √ |
4/4 - Heritage Coasts | √ | |
4/5 - Other Areas of Landscape Quality | | √ |
4/6 - Nature Conservation and Habitat Protection - National/International | | √ |
4/6a - Nature Conservation and Habitat Protection - Local | √ | |
4/7 - Archaeological Assessments | | √ |
4/8 - Archaeological Sites | | √ |
4/9 - Other Heritage Features | | √ |
4/10 - Water Protection | √ | |
4/11 - River Extraction | √ | |
4/12 - Transport | | √ |
4/13 - Traffic Impact | √ | |
4/14 - Local Environment and Amenity | √ | |
4/15 - Public Rights of Way | √ | |
4/16 - Ancillary and Secondary Operation | √ | |
4/17 - Importation of Waste | √ | |
4/18 - Restoration to Agriculture | √ | |
4/19 - Progressive Restoration | | √ |
4/20 - Aftercare | √ | |
Chapter 5 - Aggregate Minerals | | |
5/1 - Sand and Gravel Landbanks | √ | |
5/2 - Sand and ravel Provision | | √ |
5/3 - Sand and Gravel (Southwards) Preferred Areas | | √ |
5/4 - Crushed Rock Provision | | √ |
5/5 - Crushed Rock Preferred Areas and Areas of Search | √ | |
5/6 - Borrow Pits | √ | |
Chapter 6 - Deep Mined Coal | | |
6/1 - Environmental Statement | | √ |
6/2 - Deep Mining of Coal | √ | |
6/3 - Evaluative Framework Technique | √ | |
6/4 - Colliery Spoil Disposal | √ | |
6/5 - Colliery Waste Tips | √ | |
6/6 - Transport | | √ |
6/7 - Subsidence | | √ |
Chapter 7 - Oil and Gas | | |
7/1 - Noise | | √ |
7/2 - Exploration Boreholes | √ | |
7/3 - Identifying of Geological Structure | √ | |
7/4 - Appraisal Boreholes | √ | |
7/5 - Production Wells | √ | |
7/6 - Development Scheme | √ | |
7/7 - Development of new reserves | √ | |
7/8 - Gathering Stations | √ | |
7/9 - Transport | | √ |
7/10 - Restoration | √ | |
7/11 - Retention of Features | √ | |
7/12 - Pipelines | √ | |
Chapter 9 - Other Issues | | |
9/1 - Monitoring | | √ |
