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MINERALS BACKGROUND PAPEROther requirements2.6 Policies are required in the LDP for the maintenance of Landbanks, which may beconsidered on a regional level. A Landbank usually applies to non energy mineralsand is a stock of planning permissions for extraction.2.7 Policies should also consider how Borrow Pits (temporary workings to supplyspecific construction projects) are considered in terms of location, need oralternative supply. Strategies and policies should also outline the authority’sintentions on ‘Inactive Sites’ with planning permission.2. Protection of Important Areas2.8 Mineral proposals within or likely to affect international sites (Special Areas ofConservations (SAC’s or proposed SAC’s)), will only be considered where there areno alternative solutions or there is an imperative reason for overriding publicinterest. The Blaenau Gwent local planning authority area does not presentlycontain any SAC’s, although there is a SAC on Blaenau Gwent’s north-eastboundary. Proposals within or likely to affect national designations Sites of SpecialScientific Interest (SSSIs) and National Nature Reserves (NNR’s), should berigorously examined and assessed. This should be on the scale of possibledetrimental nature conservation effect against its need in terms of UK supply, theimpact of the local economy and alternative supplies. Proposals that fall withinlocally designated areas will need to be given careful consideration and the degreeof protection should be commensurate with their relevant importance to thebiodiversity and/or landscape area concerned.3. Limit Environmental Impact2.9 Generally, any minerals proposals should take into specific consideration the needto protect the quality of surface and groundwater, historic buildings and landscapes,ancient monuments and other cultural interests and agricultural land.2.10 The Minerals Planning Policy document outlines a range of issues that needs to beaddressed in development plans to ensure that minerals proposals, and in particularthe working practices, do not have an unacceptably adverse impact on theenvironment. Conditions will also be put on planning permissions to achieve this.Certain proposals will also be subject to Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).2.11 Buffer zones are required to address conflict between mineral working and otherland uses due to noise, dust and blasting. Within these zones, no new developmentof sensitive land uses, such as residential, hospitals or schools, or indeed other newextraction sites, are allowed.2.12 The guidance considers that extensions to mineral workings sites are oftengenerally more acceptable than new greenfield sites, although moreenvironmentally suitable new sites could be considered.3
MINERALS BACKGROUND PAPER2.13 Welsh Assembly Government policy encourages freight carried by rail in preferenceto road. It also advises that the capacity and impact of movement of minerals needsto be carefully considered.4. Restoration and after-use2.14 Suitable restoration should be identified before planning permission is permitted,which should subsequently begin within 6 months of cessation of work. After-usesshould be identified in advance of permissions and may include agriculture,forestry/woodland, public open space, recreation or other development. There isalso an opportunity to create nature conservation sites. Conditions need to be setwhen planning permissions are granted, and financial issues secured with regard toguaranteeing the agreed restoration.5. Efficient use of Minerals and Re-use and Recycling of suitable Materials2.15 It should be ensured that high quality minerals are not wasted and are only usedwhere necessary, not for a lower grade purpose. Industrial by-products such asslag from steel making, colliery tip material, ash from power stations and slate wasteshould increasingly be considered for use as secondary aggregates, to relieve thepressure on primary extraction. Construction and demolition waste should also beincreasingly used to meet the demand for lower grade aggregate material.2.16 The development plan is required to take into consideration the need to encourageboth the practice of on-site recycling of construction and demolition material andalso provide locations for the storage and processing of these recyclable materialsin general. If such locations cannot be identified, then criteria based policies shouldbe included to set out how planning applications will be assessed.Ministerial Interim Minerals Planning Policy Statement (MIMPPS) 01/2009 – onHealth Impact Assessment for Opencast Coal Sites2.17 It is the policy of the Welsh Assembly Government that Health Impact Assessmentshould be provided to accompany any application for opencast coal working. If themineral planning authority decides that an applicant has failed to provide adequateinformation on health impacts, it may decide that it cannot process and proceed todetermine the application without that information. This may inform theEnvironmental Statement.Mineral Technical Advice Note (MTAN) (Wales) 1: Aggregates (March 2004)2.18 This document provides advice on the mechanisms for delivering the policy foraggregate extraction by mineral planning authorities and the aggregate industry.The document covers the same five themes as the Mineral Planning Policydocument but provides more information on the background and processes of theindustry and considers each issue in more detail.2.19 Aggregates are categorised into three, primary aggregates, mineral waste andsecondary/recycled aggregates.4
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