Policy information sourced from the Central and Eastern Berkshire Joint Minerals & Waste Plan

DM5 Protection of the Countryside

  • Minerals and waste development in the open countryside will only be permitted where:
    • It is a mineral extraction or time-limited related development; or
    • The nature of the development is related to countryside activities or requires an isolated location;
    • The development provides a suitable reuse of previously developed land; or
    • The development is within redundant farm or forestry buildings and their curtilages or hard standings.
  • Where appropriate and applicable, development in the countryside will be expected to:
    • meet the highest standards of design, operation and restoration;
    • consider the intrinsic character and beauty of the landscape which would be determined by the relevant Local Character Assessment;
    • ensure any network of statutory and permissive countryside access routes be protected, and where possible, enhanced; and
    • be subject to the requirement that it is restored in the event it is no longer required for minerals and waste use.

For more information please see the Central and Eastern Berkshire Joint Minerals & Waste Plan