Planning policy and guidance: minerals and mining

Guidance and services

• Fees for monitoring mining and landfill sites: guidance for local planning authorities
• Risk based approach to development management in the coalfields
• Mineral planning guidance 2: making and determining minerals applications
• Mineral planning guidance 4: periodic review of mineral workings
• Mineral planning guidance 5: minerals planning and the General Development Order
• Mineral planning guidance 7: restoration of former mineral workings
• Mineral planning guidance 8: interim development orders (IDOs)
• Mineral planning guidance 9: conditions attached to interim development orders (IDOs)
• Mineral planning guidance 10: provision of raw material for the cement industry
• Mineral planning guidance 11: noise at surface mineral workings
• Mineral planning guidance 12: disused mine openings and information on mined ground
• Mineral planning guidance 14: review of mineral planning permisions
• The Town and Country Planning Notification Direction for Coal and Petroleum Development Wales 2018
• Restoration of surface coal mines: guidance
• Environmental impact assessment and undetermined reviews of old mineral planning permissions
• Onshore unconventional gas and oil development (CL-04-14)
• Minerals technical advice notes (MTANs)
• Regional Technical Statements for Aggregates 2nd Review - Clarification Letter
• Aggregates: regional technical statements and landbanks (CL-05-14)
• Guidelines for the provision of silica sand (circular 58/85)
• Mineral workings: legal aspects relating to restoration of sites with high water tables (circular 60/85)
• Town and Country Planning (Minerals) Regulations 1971 (circular 69/71)

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• The Brynhenllys Revised (Suspension of Public Rights Of Way) (Revocation) Order 2014 (2014 No.13)
  Legislation
• Evaluation of the Welsh Regional Aggregates Working Parties (RAWPs): executive summary
  Report
• Unconventional oil and gas extraction policy update in 2017
  Policy and strategy
• Research into the failure to restore opencast coal sites in south Wales
  Report
• Sand and gravel supply for south east Wales: position statement
  Policy and strategy
• The sand and gravel resources of north west Wales: summary
  Report
• Report on the committee on planning control over mineral working (circular 103/78)
  Report
• Interim marine aggregates dredging policy
  Policy and strategy
• Review of aggregate dredging off the coast
  Report
• The restoration and aftercare of coal and aggregate workings
  Report
• Survey of the arisings and use of aggregates: executive summary
  Report