Policy information sourced from the Hillingdon Local Plan: Part 1

MIN4 Restriction on the Release of Good Agricultural Land for Mineral Working and Requirement for Restoration

The minerals planning authority will normally resist further releases of best and most versatile agricultural land (grades 1, 2 and 3A) for mineral working unless site working and restoration methods are adopted which will, after a period of 5 years after-care, enable the land to be restored, as far as it is practicable to do so, to a standard similar to its pre-working agricultural land quality.

For more information please see Appendix 5 of the Local Plan: Part 1