Leicestershire Minerals and Waste Local Plan Up to 2031 Consultation Draft July 2015 LEICESTERSHIRE MINERALS AND WASTE LOCAL PLAN Consultation Draft July 2015 Contents CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................... 1 MINERALS AND WASTE LOCAL PLAN ........................................................................1 SCOPE AND NATURE OF THIS DOCUMENT...................................................................2 THIS CONSULTATION............................................................................................3 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 .......................................................................................................... 7 Minerals ................................................................................................................. 8 Waste Management ................................................................................................. 8 SPATIAL VISION .................................................................................................9 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES ......................................................................................10 3. PROVIDING FOR MINERALS...................................................................... 12 AGGREGATES ....................................................................................................13 Recycled and Secondary Aggregates.........................................................................13 Sand and Gravel ....................................................................................................14 Future location of sand and gravel operations ............................................................16 Crushed Rock.........................................................................................................19 NON-AGGREGATES.............................................................................................23 Brickclay ...............................................................................................................23 Fireclay .................................................................................................................25 Gypsum ................................................................................................................26 Building and Roofing Stone......................................................................................27 ENERGY MINERALS ............................................................................................28 Coal......................................................................................................................28 Oil and Gas............................................................................................................30 OTHER MINERALS..............................................................................................32 MINERALS SAFEGUARDING ..................................................................................32 Safeguarding Mineral Resources...............................................................................32 Safeguarding of Existing Mineral Sites and Associated Minerals Infrastructure................36 OTHER MINERAL DEVELOPMENTS ..........................................................................37 Associated Industrial Development ...........................................................................37 Borrow Pits............................................................................................................38 Mineral Waste ........................................................................................................39 Mineral Exploration.................................................................................................40 Incidental Mineral Extraction....................................................................................40 4. PROVIDING FOR WASTE ........................................................................... 42 THE NEED FOR NEW WASTE MANAGEMENT CAPACITY ................................................42 Local Authority Collected Waste (LACW) and Commercial & Industrial (C&I) wastes........42 C&D wastes ...........................................................................................................44 Hazardous Waste ...................................................................................................45 Agricultural Waste ..................................................................................................46 Low Level Radioactive Waste ...................................................................................47 DISTRIBUTION AND LOCATION OF NEW WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILITIES .....................48 Strategic Facilities ..................................................................................................49 Non-strategic Waste Facilities ..................................................................................50 Locating Waste Facilities .........................................................................................52 Biological Treatment of Waste..................................................................................53 i Contents Waste Reuse, Recycling, and Composting..................................................................55 Waste Reuse ......................................................................................................55 Waste Recycling .................................................................................................55 Waste Transfer and Materials Recovery Facilities ....................................................55 Waste Composting..............................................................................................56 Energy/Value Recovery from Waste ..........................................................................56 Waste Disposal ......................................................................................................57 Other Forms of Waste Management Development ......................................................59 SAFEGUARDING WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILITIES ....................................................60 5. DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT................................................................... 61 THE DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT PROCESS ............................................................61 Environmental Impact Assessment ...........................................................................62 Review of Mineral Permissions .................................................................................62 Material Considerations ...........................................................................................63 Monitoring and Enforcement ....................................................................................63 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ...............................................................................63 MANAGING IMPACTS ON THE LOCAL ENVIRONMENT AND COMMUNITIES .........................65 Local Environment and Community Protection............................................................65 Health and Amenity ............................................................................................65 Air Safeguarding.................................................................................................66 Separation Distances ..........................................................................................68 Strategic Green Infrastructure .................................................................................69 Charnwood Forest...............................................................................................69 National Forest...................................................................................................70 Strategic River Corridors .....................................................................................71 Green Wedges .......................................................................................................72 Landscaping and the Countryside .............................................................................73 Soils .....................................................................................................................75 Sites of Biodiversity/Geodiversity Interest .................................................................76 Biodiversity........................................................................................................76 Geodiversity.......................................................................................................77 Historic Environment ..............................................................................................79 Transportation .......................................................................................................81