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The Cheshire Replacement Minerals Local Plan, 1999


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The Cheshire Replacement Minerals Local Plan, 1999

The Cheshire Replacement Minerals Local Plan, adopted in 1999, provides planning advice on where mineral development can take place. Cheshire contains a variety of minerals including salt, construction sand and silica sand which are important to the regional and national economy. The working of these minerals has the potential to create a negative impact on the environment and it is important that we achieve the correct balance between the release of sufficient minerals and the protection of our environmental resources.

A philosophy of sustainable development underpins the Cheshire Replacement Minerals Local Plan. This philosophy looks at conserving the County’s environment and natural resources for the benefit of future generations.

The Plan proposes that future working of salt, silica sand and sand and gravel should come from limited areas of the County and that detailed policies will minimise the impact of all mineral working by enabling rigorous monitoring of site operations and ensuring a positive restoration of sites on set timescales for both phasing and completion.

The Cheshire Minerals Local Plan will eventually be replaced by the Minerals Development Framework. However, there may be a period of time where the current adopted plan will come to the end of the plan period. However, the minerals team are currently working on saving policies within the adopted plan to carry over whilst there is a period of time without an adopted plan.

Viewing the Plan

The plan can be downloaded by sub-section :

Chapters	Appendices
Contents and Foreword	Appendix 1
Chapter One - Introduction	Appendix 2
Chapter Two - Minerals - General	Appendix 3
Chapter Three - Minerals - Exploration	Appendix 4
Chapter Four - Clay	Appendix 5
Chapter Five - Coal	Appendix 6
Chapter Six - Sand and Gravel	Appendix 7
Chapter Seven - Hydrocarbons	Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) 1
Chapter Eight - Peat	Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) 2
Chapter Nine - Salt	Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) 3
Chapter Ten - Sandstone	Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) 4
Chapter Eleven - Silica Sand	Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) 5
Chapter Twelve - Policy

Proposals Map and Inset Maps
Inset Map 1 - Preferred Extension for Sand and Gravel Extraction Inset Map 2 - Preferred Extension for Existing Salt Mine Inset Map 3 - Preferred Extension for Controlled Brinefield Inset Map 4- Preferred Extension for Controlled Brinefield Inset Map 5- Preferred Extension for Silica Sand Quarry Inset Map 6- Preferred Extension for Silica Sand Quarry Inset Map 7- Preferred Extension for Silica Sand Quarry Inset Map 8- Preferred Extension for Silica Sand Quarry Inset Map 9- Preferred Extension for Silica Sand Quarry Proposals Map

Relationship between the existing Cheshire Replacement Minerals Local Plan, 1999 and the emerging Minerals Development Framework

The existing local plan policies are the relevant policies for the determination of planning applications. Over time, these policies will be replaced by the documents contained within the emerging Minerals Development Framework, see link to Local Development Scheme.

The Core Strategy

Minerals, will seek to provide the strategic steer and overview and, where appropriate, more detailed policy objectives; the Site Specific Policy and allocations will provide the geographic location of potential future mineral development or safeguarding and again more detailed policy commentary and the proposals map will show the geographic location of all relevant policy and will be updated as and when new Development Plan Documents are adopted.

For more information or to order a copy of the plan, please contact the Minerals Team.