Mid-Essex Gravel Pits v SoS for the Environment and Essex CC
Mid-Essex Gravel Pits v SoS for the Environment and Essex CC
- 1993
- Journal of Planning and Environment Law 1993 JPL 229-236(5) .
QBD 6 February 1992. The council failed to determine two planning applications for the winning and working of sand and gravel sites. The central issue was whether the county needed to maintain an adequate provision for future working of minerals. The argument centred on the proper approach to MPG6 paragraph 34 which deals with the need to maintain a `landbank`. The appellant, M, asserted that `as the purpose of the landbank policy was to maintain permitted reserves sufficient for at least 10 years` extraction, in assessing the adequacy or otherwise of reserves, material which would not be worked until the next century should be discounted`. However the council argued that all permitted reserves should count towards the landbank. The structure plan contained a proposal that reserves with planning permission should be maintained. The appeal was allowed.
MINERAL PLANNING GUIDANCE NOTE 6
MINERAL RESERVES
MINERAL WORKINGS
MINERALS PLANNING GUIDANCE NOTE SIX
PLANNING APPLICATIONS
QBD 6 February 1992. The council failed to determine two planning applications for the winning and working of sand and gravel sites. The central issue was whether the county needed to maintain an adequate provision for future working of minerals. The argument centred on the proper approach to MPG6 paragraph 34 which deals with the need to maintain a `landbank`. The appellant, M, asserted that `as the purpose of the landbank policy was to maintain permitted reserves sufficient for at least 10 years` extraction, in assessing the adequacy or otherwise of reserves, material which would not be worked until the next century should be discounted`. However the council argued that all permitted reserves should count towards the landbank. The structure plan contained a proposal that reserves with planning permission should be maintained. The appeal was allowed.
MINERAL PLANNING GUIDANCE NOTE 6
MINERAL RESERVES
MINERAL WORKINGS
MINERALS PLANNING GUIDANCE NOTE SIX
PLANNING APPLICATIONS