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National Planning Policy Guideline NPPG
4: LAND FOR MINERAL WORKING
references
1. "Minerals" are defined to include "all substances of
a kind ordinarily worked for removal by the underground or
surface working" (Section 275 of the Town and Country
Planning (Scotland) Act 1972).
2. "The Natural Heritage" is defined to include the
flora and fauna of Scotland, its geological and
physiographic features, its natural beauty and amenity
(SOEnD Circular 4/1993).
3. "The Built Heritage" is defined as ancient monuments
and archaeological sites and landscapes; historic
buildings; parks and gardens; and designed landscapes.
(Historic Scotland: Annual Report 1992-93).
4. Government sponsored research published or in
preparation:
- Aggregates in Construction - current practice,
scope for substitution and intensity of use (in
preparation)
- High Specification Aggregates for Road Surfacing
Materials. Travers Morgan 1993.
- Appraisal of Specifications for Aggregates/Bulk
Construction Materials (in preparation)
- Recycling of Demolition and Construction Wastes in
the UK (in preparation)
- Occurrence and Utilisation of Mineral and
Construction Wastes. HMSO 1991
- Efficient use of Aggregate and Bulk Construction
Materials. BRE 1993.
5. Archaeological Investigations Code of Practice for
Mineral Operators in Scotland. CBI 1993.
6. "An Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in
Scotland". A report by Land Use Consultants to Countryside
Commission for Scotland and Historic Buildings and
Monuments Directorate, SDD, July 1987.
7. Environmental Effects of Surface Mineral Workings.
HMSO 1992.
8. Government sponsored research has been published, is
currently under way or is proposed on the following:
- Environmental costs/benefits of aggregate
extraction (proposed)
- Hydrogeology and Mineral Workings (proposed)
- Environmental effects of Blasting at Surface
Mineral Workings (in preparation)
- Environmental effects of Dust from Surface Mineral
Workings (in preparation)
- The effects of Traffic Associated with Mineral
Working Sites (proposed)
- Visual impact of Surface Mineral Workings
(proposed)
- The Control of Noise at Surface Mineral Workings.
HMSO1990
- Environmental Management in the Minerals Industry.
Groundwork Associates 1993
- Non-ferrous Metalliferrous Mineral Extraction in
Scotland: Processes and Environmental Consequences.
Wardell Armstrong 1993.
9. Government sponsored research published or in
preparation:
- Reclamation to Nature Conservation Use (in
preparation)
- Reassessment of Agricultural Quality of Restored
Land (Bush Farm) (proposed)
- Reclamation of Colliery Spoil Material
(proposed)
- The use of Soil Forming Materials in Mineral
Working Restoration and other land reclamation
(proposed)
- Effective approaches and techniques in landscaping
and reclamation of hard rock quarries (proposed)
- Reclamation of mineral working to agriculture (in
preparation)
- Review of the Effectiveness of Restoration
Conditions for Mineral Workings and the need for Bonds.
HMSO 1993
- Amenity Reclamation of Mineral Workings. HMSO
1992
- The Potential for Woodland Establishment on
Landfill Sites. HMSO 1993
- Rehabilitation of lowland and peat bogs (in
preparation).
10. Business Statistics Office (BSO). Business Monitor.
Minerals 1992.
11. Scottish Aggregates Survey 1989 (SOEnD Dec
1993).
12. Aggregates: The Way Head. Report of the Advisory
Committee on Aggregates (The Verney Report). HMSO 1976.
13. National Planning Guidelines: Aggregate Working. SDD
1977 (now superseded).
14. Potential for a Large Coastal Quarry in Scotland:
Preliminary research report. SDD 1980.
15 Coastal Superquarries to supply South-East England
Aggregate Requirements [ARUP]. HMSO 1992.
16. Scottish Highlands and Southern Uplands Mineral
Portfolio: Limestone & Dolomite Resources: Hard Rock
Aggregate Resources. BGS 1989.
17. Non-Ferrous Metalliferrous Mineral Extraction in
Scotland: Processes and Environmental Implications: Wardell
Armstrong 1993.
18. SOEnD Consultation Paper: Review of the Provisions
of the Town and Country Planning (Minerals) Act 1981:
Post-1948 Mineral Permissions in Scotland. Section 251A of
the 1972 Act (as amended by para 14 schedule 8 of the
Planning and Compensation Act 1991) defines "a mining site"
as including a site used for the winning and working of
minerals or the depositing of mineral waste.
19. BACMI, Environmental Code, March 1992
SAGA, Code of Practice on Site Care, August 1991
ECO-AUDIT system BS 7750.
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