Review of plans, policies and

Environmental Impact

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  Ensure that where mineral extraction, mineral exploration, mineral disposal, and the provision of aggregate depots occur, they do so without causing undue detriment to the environmental, amenity, or economic interests (UDP Policy M2)
  
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  Policies should take into account the impacts of mineral working such as visual intrusion, dewatering, water pollution, nose, dust and fine particles, blasting and traffic…landscape, agricultural land, soil resources, ecology and wildlife…and impacts on sites of nature conservation, archaeological and cultural heritage value (MPS2 para 11).
  
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  Secure working practices which prevent or reduce as far as possible, impact on the environment and human health arising from the extraction, processing, management or transportation of minerals (MPS1 Para 9).
  
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  The environmental impact of mineral workings is to be minimised (UDP Policy ST17)
  
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  Minerals extraction forms an exception to the sequential approach set out in the core development principles (RSS policy EM7).
  
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  Protect internationally and nationally designated areas of landscape value and nature conservation importance (including National Parks, the Broads, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, SSSIs and World Heritage Sites) from minerals development, except in exceptional circumstances (MPS1 para 9 and 14)
  
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  Ensure that any unavoidable noise, dust and particle emissions and any blasting vibrations caused by mineral extraction are in conformity with national guidance and are controlled, mitigated or removed at source, so as to reduce to an acceptable level any potential adverse impacts on neighbouring land and property (MPS1 para 17)
  
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  Consider in association with the Environment Agency, the potential for mineral developments, individually or cumulatively, to affect the flow, quality or quantity of surface and ground water supplies (MPS1 para 17)
  

RESTORATION, AFTERCARE AND AFTER-USE

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  Protect and seek to enhance the overall quality of the environment once extraction has ceased, through high standards of restoration, and to safeguard the long-term potential of land for a wide-range of after-uses (MPS para 9)
  
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  Ensure sensitive environmental restoration and aftercare of sites, (RSS Policy ER9) including improved public access where they are of amenity value (RSS Policy EM7)
  
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  Take account of the opportunities for enhancing the overall quality of the environment and the wider benefits that sites may offer, including nature and geological conservation and increased public accessibility, which may be achieved by sensitive design and appropriate and timely restoration (MPS1 para 19).
  
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  A wide range of possible options exist for suitable after-uses for mineral workings. Reclamation provides the opportunity to return land either to its original, or an alternative, use of benefit to the local or wider community. (MPG7 para 10).
  

STORAGE, HANDLING AND TRANSPORTATION

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  Promote the sustainable transport of minerals by rail, sea or inland waterways (MPS1 para 9 and 16).
  

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  Safeguard existing, planned and potential railheads, wharfage and associated storage, handling and processing facilities for the bulk transport by rail, sea or inland waterways of minerals…including recycled, secondary and marine dredged minerals (MPS1 para 13)
  
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  Safeguard opportunities for the transportation of minerals by pipeline, rail or water including the maintenance of existing wharves and railhead facilities, the provision of new ones, and of facilities for on-shore processing and distribution of hydrocarbons (RSS Policy EM7)
  
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  Take account of the benefit, including the reduction carbon emissions, which local supplies of minerals would make in reducing the impact of transporting them over long distances by road (MPS1 para 15).
  
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  Seek to promote and enable the bulk movement of minerals by rail, sea or inland waterways to reduce the environmental impact of their transportation (MPS1 para 16).
  

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