Suffolk County Council are responsible for dealing with all
minerals and waste planning matters. This includes:
- authorising planning applications for mineral extraction, waste
management facilities and related development;
- monitoring of sites for compliance with planning
conditions;
- preparation and implementation of planning policies to control
minerals and waste planning matters;
- taking enforcement action against unauthorised
development;
- preparing the Minerals & Waste Development Framework (the
successor document to the Minerals Local Plan and Waste Local
Plan).
Contact
If you have any queries on minerals and waste planning in
Suffolk please contact David Palk, Development Manager:
Telephone: 01473 264771
Email:
david.palk@et.suffolkcc.gov.uk
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1APP (National Standard Planning Application Forms)
has Arrived!
Suffolk County Council went live with 1APP and the new
validation process on the 26 February 2008. For more information
please visit
1APP and Mineral Planning Applications webpage.
Minerals and Waste Planning Policy
The new national planning system requires the replacement of the
existing Minerals Local Plan and Waste Local Plan, with a
Minerals and Waste Development Framework (M&WDF). This process
has commenced in Suffolk and will entail the preparation of a set
of Minerals and Waste Development Documents to guide minerals and
waste planning for the next 15 years.
The revised
Minerals and Waste Development Scheme (PDF, 154Kb) was
approved in June 2007. The Scheme sets out the timetable
for producing the documents comprising the Minerals &
Waste Development Framework.
Minerals Consultation
The first stage in producing the new Minerals and Waste
Development Framework was to review the current
Suffolk Minerals Local Plan. Three main documents are being
produced: the
Minerals Core Strategy DPD, the
Minerals Specific Site Allocations DPD and the Proposals Map.
Please click on the links above for more detail on these two
DPDs.
Following consultation on Issues and Options the Minerals Core
Strategy was submitted to the Secretary of State by Suffolk County
Council on 22 October 2007. For more details
click here. The examination is now closed (see
letter from the Planning Inspectorate) and the final amended
version of the Suffolk Minerals Core Strategy DPD, with an
accompanying Proposals Map will be presented to Council in
september 2008 for adoption.
The
Minerals Specific Site Allocation (Preferred Options) has
also been out for consultation during this period and a
submission version, which was approved by Council on July 10th
2008, will be submitted to the Secretary of State on 1st August
2008.
Waste consultation
The
Waste Local Plan was adopted in February 2006. The first Waste
Core Strategy Issues Report was out for consultation from 29th
October to 24th December 2007 and can be found
here. A Waste Issues and Options report will be published on
11th August 2008 for consultation up to the 10th October 2008.
Saved Policies
GO-East has agreed to save three of the policies in the Suffolk
Minerals Local Plan-
1. SMLP1- Environmental Protection
2. SMLP2- Working and Processing
3. SMLP7- Idenitification of Proposed Mineral Sites
The full letter letter can be found
here (PDF 15.1 Kb)
All Waste Local Plan policies are automatically saved until
February 2009 (i.e from the date of adoption in February
2006).