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 MANAGEMENT PROCESS........................................................................................64