Policy information sourced from the Hertfordshire Minerals Local Plan Review

3 Sites for Sand and Gravel Extraction and the Working of Preferred Areas

Specific Sites for sand and gravel extraction are identified on the Proposals Map and listed at Appendix 5. These are:

  1. sites which have a valid planning permission for mineral extraction including active sites with unworked permitted reserves and sites on which extraction has not commenced; and
  2. sites which are subject to a resolution of the County Council to grant planning permission.

The following sites as defined on the Proposals and Inset Maps are identified as Preferred Areas for future mineral working:

  • Preferred Area 1: Land at former British Aerospace, Hatfield
  • Preferred Area 2: Land adjoining Rickneys Quarry, near Hertford
  • Preferred Area 3: Land at Coursers Road, near London Colney

Proposed mineral working within the Preferred Areas defined in this Plan will be permitted only when:

  • they contribute to maintaining the County’s appropriate contribution to local, regional and national aggregate needs, including the maintenance of a landbank in accordance with Mineral Policy 1; and
  • the application satisfactorily fulfils the requirements of the Proposals for that Preferred Area as identified with the Inset Maps.

For more information, please see the Hertfordshire Minerals Local Plan Review