Land use planning: minerals work
Defra guidance for successful reclamation of mineral and waste sites
In 1999 the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) adopted a more strategic role in relation to mineral and waste land use planning. After discussions with the key stakeholders, MAFF commissioned the Farming and Rural Conservation Agency (FRCA) to write what has become Guidance for successful reclamation of mineral and waste sites. This guidance is to help both mineral planning authorities and mineral operators to achieve the desired outcomes in the context of the more strategic input from Defra’s Rural Development Service (RDS). The guidance is to promote better understanding of the agricultural issues that affect the restoration of mineral and waste sites where the long-term agricultural potential of the land is to be preserved. It provides a working tool for the industry to assess and balance the agricultural issues relating to mineral and waste proposals, by focusing on the agricultural considerations and the key issue of sustainability.
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- Cover and copyright information (27 KB)
- Foreword (12 KB)
- Acknowledgements (9 KB)
- Introduction (11 KB)
- How to use the guidance (12 KB)
- Addresses (9 KB)
- Glossary (31 KB)
- Abbreviations (9 KB)
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Contents tree (32 KB)
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Application
- General application – AP1 (30 KB)
- Planning considerations – AP2 (19 KB)
- Other considerations – AP3 (30 KB)
- Novel proposals – AP4 (22 KB)
- Overall restoration – AP5 (55 KB)
- Soil – AP6 (42 KB)
- Method of working – AP7 (60 KB)
- Soil handling – AP8 (34 KB)
- Soil handling equipment – AP9 (27 KB)
- Soil storage – AP10 (32 KB)
- Outline aftercare – AP11 (29 KB)
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Local farm impacts – AP12 (34 KB)
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Site Working
- Communication – SW1 (84 KB)
- Procedural matters – SW2 (21 KB)
- Environmental control – SW3 (21 KB)
- Considerations prior to soil stripping – SW4 (43 KB)
- Fixed equipment and plant – SW5 (24 KB)
- Haul roads – SW6 (28 KB)
- Monitoring – SW7 (33 KB)
- Monitoring soil storage – SW8 (37 KB)
- Site working machinery – SW9 (28 KB)
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Impacts on aftercare – SW10 (27 KB)
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Restoration
- Communication – RN1 (23 KB)
- Procedural matters – RN2 (24 KB)
- Landform – RN3 (49 KB)
- Soil storage – RN4 (25 KB)
- Soil handling – RN5 (44 KB)
- Equipment – RN6 (33 KB)
- Haul roads – RN7 (32 KB)
- Soil replacement – RN8 (38 KB)
- Remedial issues – RN9 (28 KB)
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Drainage – RN10 (23 KB)
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Aftercare
- Communication – AC1 (51 KB)
- Procedural matters – AC2 (30 KB)
- Commencement of aftercare – AC3 (23 KB)
- Resources and constraints – AC4 (28 KB)
- General condition of site – AC5 (31 KB)
- Soil – AC6 (81 KB)
- Cropping – AC7 (28 KB)
- Soil analysis – AC8 (41 KB)
- Drainage – AC9 (41 KB)
- Ancillary matters – AC10 (20 KB)
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Post site actions – AC11 (24 KB)
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Further information (17 KB)
Page last modified 9 February 2006
Page published: 27
January 2005