Policy information sourced from the Surrey Minerals Plan
MC15 Transport of minerals
Applications for mineral development should include a transport assessment of potential impacts on highway safety, congestion and demand management. The assessment should also explore how the movement of minerals within and outside the site will address issues of emissions control, energy efficiency and amenity.
Applicants will be expected to address alternatives to road-based methods of transport, especially where these can use existing rail sidings.
Mineral development involving transportation by road will be permitted only where:
- there is no practicable alternative to the use of road-based transport that would have a lower impact on communities and the environment;
- the highway network is of an appropriate standard for use by the traffic generated by the development or can be suitably improved; and
- arrangements for site access and the traffic generated by the development would not have any significant adverse impacts on highway safety, air quality, residential amenity, the environment or the effective operation of the highway network.
For more information please see the Surrey Minerals Plan