Policy information sourced from the Minerals local plan for Berkshire (Part 1)

Policy 22

The local planning authorities will require an Environmental Statement to be submitted with a planning application where, having regard to the provisions of the Town & Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999 and DETR Circular 2/99, it appears to them that proposals for mineral extraction or related development will constitute ‘EIA development’. Any decision not to require such a statement in a particular case will not preclude the authority, when taking the decision on the overall merits of the application concerned, from judging that the environmental effects of the proposal are sufficient to justify refusing planning permission.