Policy information sourced from the Kent Minerals and Waste Local Plan

CSM 8: Secondary and Recycled Aggregates

Sites will be identified in the Minerals Sites Plan to ensure processing capacity is maintained to allow the production of at least 2.7 million tonnes per annum of secondary and recycled aggregates, throughout the Plan period.

Proposals for additional capacity for secondary and recycled aggregate production including those relating to the expansion of capacity at existing facilities that increases the segregation and hence end product range/quality achieved, will be granted planning permission if they are well located in relation to the source of input materials or need for output materials, have good transport infrastructure links and accord with the other relevant policies in the development plan, at the following types of sites:

  • temporary demolition, construction, land reclamation and regeneration projects and highways developments where materials are either generated or to be used in the project or both for the duration of the project (as defined by the planning permission)
  • appropriate mineral operations (including wharves and rail depots) for the duration of the host site permission.
  • appropriate waste management operations for the duration of the host site permission.
  • industrial estates, where the proposals are compatible with other policies set out in the development plan including those relating to employment and regeneration.
  • any other site that meets the requirements cited in the second paragraph of this policy above.

The term ‘appropriate’ in this policy is defined in terms of the proposal demonstrating that it will not give rise to unacceptable adverse impacts on communities or the environment as a whole over and above the levels that had been considered to be acceptable for the host site when originally permitted without the additional facility

Planning permission will be granted to re-work old inert landfills and dredging disposal sites to produce replacement aggregate material where it is demonstrated that net gains in landscape, biodiversity or amenity can be achieved by the operation and environmental impacts can be mitigated to an acceptable level.

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