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National Planning Policy Guideline NPPG
4: LAND FOR MINERAL WORKING
annex B
Notification of Planning Applications to the
Secretary of State
1. SDD Circular 29/1988 sets out the circumstances in
which planning applications should be notified to the
Secretary of State. Planning applications for mineral
working do not in themselves automatically raise notifiable
issues, but in the following circumstances mineral planning
applications should be notified once the planning authority
has decided to grant planning permission:
1.1 developments involving use of 2 hectares of more of
prime quality agricultural land (class 1, 2 or 3.1 Land
Capability Classification, Macaulay Land Use Research
Institute) where the development would be contrary to a
local plan which has been adopted or no local plan has been
adopted or approved, or where an officer of DAFS (now
SOAFD) has been consulted and advised against granting
permission, or no such officer has been consulted.
1.2 developments affecting a Site of Special Scientific
Interest which has been notified to the planning authority
by the NCC (now SNH) as a site of national or international
importance and where SNH had advised against granting of
planning permission.
1.3 developments affecting sites reserved for high
technology activities, large scale industry or
petrochemical development or in the vicinity of a major
hazard.
1.4 developments affecting trunk roads and special roads
where the Secretary of State has advised against granting
of planning permission or has recommended conditions which
the planning authority do not propose to attach to the
planning permission.
1.5 developments contrary to approved structure and
local plans, which the planning authority consider to be
significant departures.
2. SDD Circular 20/80, as amended by 9/87, sets out the
arrangements for controlling developments in National
Scenic Areas. Amongst the categories of development in
which the Secretary of State can intervene are:
2.1 all non-residential developments (including mineral
extraction) of more than 0.5 hectares where the Countryside
Commission for Scotland (now SNH) have advised against
granting of planning permission and the planning authority
propose to give planning permission against SNH advice.
3. SOEnD is in the process of amending and consolidating
the various notification directions. In the meantime, an
amendment to the 1988 Direction has now been made to cover
coastal quarries capable of achieving a production output
of 2 million tonnes or more per annum, The Town and Country
Planning (Notification of Applications) (Scotland)
Amendment Direction 1994. (See paragraphs 69 and 70 of NPPG
4.)
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