Leicestershire Minerals and Waste Local Plan Up to 2031 Pre-Submission Draft 2016 LEICESTERSHIRE MINERALS AND WASTE LOCAL PLAN Pre-Submission Draft 2016 Contents CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................... 1 MINERALS AND WASTE LOCAL PLAN ........................................................................................................ 1 SCOPE AND NATURE OF THIS DOCUMENT ................................................................................................ 2 2. SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS, VISION AND STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES ................. 5 SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE COUNTY ......................................................................................... 5 Population ................................................................................................................................................................. 5 Industry ..................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Transport ................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Natural Resources ..................................................................................................................................................... 7 Built Heritage and Historic Landscape ...................................................................................................................... 7 Minerals .................................................................................................................................................................... 8 Waste Management ................................................................................................................................................... 9 SPATIAL VISION ............................................................................................................................................ 9 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES ............................................................................................................................ 10 3. PROVIDING FOR MINERALS ...................................................................................................... 12 AGGREGATES ................................................................................................................................................. 13 Recycled and Secondary Aggregates ...................................................................................................................... 13 Sand and Gravel ...................................................................................................................................................... 13 Future location of sand and gravel operations ......................................................................................................... 15 Crushed Rock .......................................................................................................................................................... 19 NON-AGGREGATES ...................................................................................................................................... 23 Brickclay ................................................................................................................................................................. 23 Fireclay ................................................................................................................................................................... 25 Gypsum ................................................................................................................................................................... 26 Building and Roofing Stone .................................................................................................................................... 27 ENERGY MINERALS ..................................................................................................................................... 29 Coal ......................................................................................................................................................................... 29 Conventional and Unconventional Hydrocarbons (Oil and Gas) ............................................................................ 30 OTHER MINERALS ........................................................................................................................................ 34 MINERALS SAFEGUARDING ....................................................................................................................... 35 Safeguarding Mineral Resources ............................................................................................................................. 35 Safeguarding of Existing Mineral Sites and Associated Minerals Infrastructure .................................................... 38 OTHER MINERAL DEVELOPMENTS ........................................................................................................... 40 Associated Industrial Development ......................................................................................................................... 40 Borrow Pits ............................................................................................................................................................. 41 Mineral Waste ......................................................................................................................................................... 42 Mineral Exploration ................................................................................................................................................ 42 Incidental Mineral Extraction .................................................................................................................................. 43 4. PROVIDING FOR WASTE .............................................................................................................. 44 THE NEED FOR NEW WASTE MANAGEMENT CAPACITY ...................................................................... 44 Local Authority Collected Waste (LACW) and Commercial & Industrial (C&I) wastes ....................................... 44 C&D wastes ............................................................................................................................................................ 46 Hazardous Waste ..................................................................................................................................................... 47 Agricultural Waste .................................................................................................................................................. 48 Permitted Waste Facilities ....................................................................................................................................... 48 Low Level Radioactive Waste ................................................................................................................................ 49 DISTRIBUTION AND LOCATION OF NEW WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILITIES ................................ 50 Strategic Facilities ................................................................................................................................................... 51 Non-strategic Waste Facilities................................................................................................................................. 53 Locating Waste Facilities ........................................................................................................................................ 54 Biological Treatment of Waste................................................................................................................................ 56 Waste Reuse, Recycling, and Composting .............................................................................................................. 57 Waste Reuse ................................................................................................................................................. 57 i Contents Waste Recycling ........................................................................................................................................... 57 Waste Transfer and Materials Recovery Facilities ........................................................................... 57 Waste Composting ...................................................................................................................................... 58 Energy and Value Recovery from Waste ................................................................................................................ 58 Waste Disposal ........................................................................................................................................................ 60 Other Forms of Waste Management Development ................................................................................................. 62 SAFEGUARDING WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILITIES ............................................................................ 62 5. DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT .................................................................................................. 64 THE DEVELOPMENT