Minerals planning in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent
Staffordshire County Council and Stoke-on-Trent City Council, as Mineral Planning Authorities, control the development of minerals by determining planning applications submitted by mineral operators or their agents in their areas.
In order to help determine planning applications Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Councils consider the applications against a number of mineral planning policies and other relevant planning policies that are to be found in a series of documents, collectively referred to as the 'development plan'. For more information click on:
Regional and Strategic Policy
The Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Structure Plan 1996-2011, adopted in May 2001, contains strategic planning policies, including broad mineral planning policies that the Mineral Local Plan must conform with. The 'saved policies' in the Structure Plan remain as part of the 'development plan' and have been joined by the West Midlands Regional Spatial Strategy (June 2004). For more information click on:
The Minerals Local Plan (MLP) was adopted in December 1999.
A 'direction letter' from the Government c/o the Government Office for the West Midlands has confirmed the 'saved' policies in our MLP with effect from 28 September 2007. For more information click
here.
The MLP is set out as follows:
- Executive Summary
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Policy background and the Environment (The National, Regional and Local Frameworks)
- Chapter 3 General Policies
- Chapter 4 Energy Minerals (coal and hydrocarbons)
- Chapter 5 Evaporites (gypsum and anhydrite; salt)
- Chapter 6 Clay and shale
- Chapter 7 Shale and Limestone for the cement industry
- Chapter 8 Sand and Gravel
- Chapter 9 Limestone (crushed rock)
- Chapter 10 Secondary Aggregates
- Chapter 11 Silica Sandstone
- Chapter 12 Building and Dimension Stone
- Chapter 13 Other Minerals
- Chapter 14 Implementation and monitoring
- Appendix 1 List of natural and cultural environment features in the shallow coalfields
- Appendix 2 Sand and gravel allocations: MLP Proposal 5 details
- Appendix 3 Borrow pit allocations: MLP Proposal 6 details
- Appendix 4 List of policy constraints shown on inset maps
- Appendix 5 Code of Practice for Mineral Development
The MLP is accompanied by supplementary planning guidance 'A Code of Practice for Mineral Development' (Appendix 5). The Code is intended to advise applicants and operators about the type of information that may need to be supplied when a planning application is being prepared and the standards expected when sites are operating.
Contact details
To discuss the MLP or the Code of Practice please contact either:
To obtain a copy of the MLP and the Code of Practice, write, enclosing a cheque for £21.40 per copy (incl. postage), made payable to "Staffordshire County Council" to:
Matt Griffin
Development and Waste Management Unit
Development Services Directorate
Staffordshire County Council
Riverway Stafford
ST16 3TJ
Timetable for review
The Minerals Local Plan was adopted in December 1999. The timetable for review is now set out in the Minerals and Waste Development Scheme. For more information click on:
The Staffordshire Minerals Forum
The Staffordshire Minerals Forum was formed in March 2003 and is a means by which stakeholders can discuss mineral development related issues with the County Council and the minerals industry. The Forum's first meeting was held in July 2003. For more information click on:
Minerals and mineral sites
Minerals and mineral sites describes the range, quantity and locations where minerals are extracted in Staffordshire.
Last Modified:
27/03/2009 14:28:08
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