Mineral Sites Plan

One of the key documents of the Minerals and Waste Development Framework is the Mineral Sites Plan.

The minerals sites document will reflect the principles of the Core Strategy. It will identify sites and locations for mineral extraction, processing, importation and safeguarding of provisions, including:

• sources of concreting sand and gravel, crushed rock, building sand and secondary aggregates to provide for the needs of Kent
• provisions for a landbank of reserves to meet the set apportionment of primary land-won construction aggregates
• known sources of construction aggregates
• raw materials to maintain supply to existing individual brick and tile works to meet regional policy requirements
• resources of raw material for cement manufacture to meet national policy requirements and the supply and use of chalk for non-cement purposes
• silica sand reserves to meet regional policy requirements including consideration of safeguarding of high quality silica sand reserves, and 
• existing and proposed mineral importing wharves and rail depots.

Key events

The development of the Mineral Sites Plan will include community consultation and involvement events where you have the opportunity to give us your views and help form the final document. We plan to carry out the publication, submission and subsequent adoption stages jointly for the separate minerals and waste site documents.

The document is likely to go through the following public consultation stages:

1. Issues stage: the industry Call for Sites was open between 24 May and 29 October 2010.

2a. Options consultation: all proposals received during the previous Call
for Sites stage were published for comment between 31 May and 09 August 2011. View the Minerals Sites Options consultation

2b. Supplementary Site Options consultation: late site submissions and significant amendments to sites from the previous Options consultation. Open for public consultation between 24 October and 19 December 2011. View the closed consultation

3. 'Preferred Options' consultation: live between 28 May and 23 July 2012. More information

4. Publication and pre-submission consultation: currently scheduled for September 2013.

The timetable for the development of all minerals and waste documents is published in the updated Minerals and Waste Development Scheme.