Policy information sourced from the Kent Minerals and Waste Local Plan

CSM 5: Land-won Mineral Safeguarding

Economic mineral resources are safeguarded from being unnecessarily sterilised by other development by the identification of:

  • Mineral Safeguarding Areas for the areas of brickearth, sharp sand and gravel, soft sand (including silica sand), ragstone and building stone as defined on the Mineral Safeguarding Area Policies Maps in Chapter 9
  • Mineral Consultation Areas which cover the same area as the Minerals Safeguarding Areas and a separate area adjacent to the Strategic Site for Minerals at Medway Works, Holborough as shown in Figure 17
  • Sites for mineral working within the plan period identified in Appendix C and in the Mineral Sites Plan.

For more information please see the Kent Minerals and Waste Local Plan