Policy information sourced from the Kent Minerals and Waste Local Plan

DM 17 Planning Obligations

Planning obligations will be sought where appropriate, to achieve suitable control over, and to mitigate and/or compensate for, the effects of minerals and waste development where such objectives cannot be achieved by planning conditions. Matters to be covered by such planning obligations may include those listed below as appropriate to the proposed development:

  1. revocation and consolidation of planning permissions
  2. highways and access improvements
  3. traffic management measures including the regulation of lorry traffic
  4. provision and management of off-site or advance tree planting and screening
  5. extraction in advance of future development
  6. environmental enhancement and the delivery of Local Biodiversity Action Plan Targets
  7. protection and enhancement of internationally, nationally and locally important sites
  8. landscape enhancement
  9. protection of internationally, nationally and locally notable and protected species
  10. long term management and monitoring of mitigation or compensation sites and their protection from further development
  11. provision and long term maintenance of an alternative water supply should existing supplies be affected
  12. archaeological investigation, analysis, reporting, publication and archive deposition
  13. establishment of a liaison committee
  14. long-term site management provision to establish and/or maintain beneficial after-use
  15. improvement to the public rights of way network
  16. financial guarantees to ensure restoration and long term maintenance is undertaken
  17. measures for environmental, recreational, economic and community gain in mitigation or compensation for the effects of minerals and waste development
  18. codes of construction practice for large waste developments that incorporate the requirement for the majority of the construction workforce to be recruited locally. Opportunities for modern apprenticeships to be made available for a proportion of the construction workforce
  19. the majority of the operational staff at large waste developments to be sourced from the local area and opportunities for modern apprenticeships and other nationally recognised training schemes to be available for a proportion of the workforce

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