Minerals and waste joint planning authorities

Advice and guidance produced by the government seeks to move towards enhanced working between local authorities on areas of common interest to achieve sustainable development. The nature of minerals and waste developments mean that often there are implications beyond individual planning authorities' boundaries.

North Yorkshire County Council, the City of York Council and North York Moors National Park Authority have decided to produce a minerals and waste joint plan so that strategic issues can be addressed on a greater than local level and to help comply with the 'duty to co-operate'. Production of a joint plan is also expected to be more efficient than producing three separate plans.

North Yorkshire County Council adopted the Minerals and Waste Joint Plan at their Full Council meeting on 16 February 2022. An  adoption statement (pdf / 436 KB) has been produced. The North York Moors National Park Authority adopted the Plan on 21 March 2022 and the City of York Council adopted the Plan on 27 April 2022. The adopted  Minerals and Waste Joint Plan (pdf / 4 MB) and accompanying documents are available to view on the examination web page.

The Inspector took into consideration the content of the Main Modifications Consultation responses while writing her report. The Authorities received the  Inspector's Report (pdf / 591 KB) and accompanying  Appendix (pdf / 2 MB) on 4 February 2022 which concluded that the Inspector found the Minerals and Waste Joint Plan sound. The Authorities now need individually adopt the Minerals and Waste Joint Plan. To keep up to date with progress please go to the examination web page.

The Minerals and Waste Joint Plan was submitted to the Planning Inspectorate in November 2017. Hearings took place in the spring of 2018 and January 2019. The Authorities produced a Schedule of Main Modifications to the Publication Draft which was out for consultation between 21 July 2021 and 5pm on 15 September 2021 this consultation is now closed. A report of the responses to the Main Modifications Consultation is available to view on the Examination web page as  LPA127 Main Modifications Consultation Responses Report (pdf / 915 KB).

The minerals and waste joint plan was submitted under Regulation 22(3) of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012 to the Department of Communities and Local Government on 28 November 2017.

Following the six week consultation in November 2016 a number of proposed changes were identified to the draft minerals and waste plan. As a result it is necessary to present the changes for feedback on legal compliance and soundness in an addendum of proposed changes. The consultation of the addendum of proposed changes is now closed. The documents that were included in the consultation are in the table below.

Addendum of proposed changes documents

A report of the feedback received was produced and will formed part of the submission documents provided for the examination in public.

Following the minerals and waste joint plan preferred options consultation the responses, along with related evidence, were considered and used to help develop the final draft version of the plan for publication for representations on legal compliance and soundness. The period of time for making representations on the publication version of the minerals and waste joint plan is now closed. Any representations received after the deadline cannot be accepted as being duly made. However, we did forward any late representations to the planning inspector for their information. A copy of the documents presented as part of the publication period are available below for reference only. The representations submitted in response to the publication document were compiled and submitted as part of the submission documents. A table listing the respondents and a  copy of the submitted representations is available below, Due to the volume of representations received the representations have been split into four groups. A report containing a summary of the representations is also available below.

Minerals and waste joint plan publication version

Sustainability appraisal and other assessments 

Other main supporting documents

Other proposed submission documents including documents supporting the development of the plan are available below and also on the evidence base page, which includes  proformas (pdf / 2 MB) showing the progression of policies from preferred options to publication stage and  discounted sites (pdf / 13 MB) document. You can also view further details on the sustainability appraisal, strategic flood risk assessment and habitats regulation assessment pages.

Policies map

An interactive map showing interpretation of preferred policies and site allocations is available here:

Policies map

Alternatively, see a hard copy of the policies map in the table below. The area covered by the plan is large so has been divided into different sections. See this  policies map showing the different areas (pdf / 573 KB) to help you identify the particular map you would like to look at.

Documents

• Introduction
•  Policy map sub areas  (pdf / 573 KB)
•  Aerodrome safeguarding (pdf / 5 MB)
•  Agricultural classification (pdf / 4 MB)
•  Coal mining referral areas (pdf / 5 MB)
•  Water constraints (pdf / 5 MB)
•  PEDL areas (pdf / 4 MB)

Environmental and historic maps

•  Environmental and historic maps key (pdf / 202 KB)
•  Environmental and historic maps - one (pdf / 5 MB)
•  Environmental and historic maps - two (pdf / 4 MB)
•  Environmental and historic maps - three (pdf / 3 MB)
•  Environmental and historic maps - four (pdf / 5 MB)
•  Environmental and historic maps - five (pdf / 8 MB)
•  Environmental and historic maps - six (pdf / 5 MB)
•  Environmental and historic maps - seven (pdf / 6 MB)
•  Environmental and historic maps - eight (pdf / 5 MB)
•  Environmental and historic maps - nine (pdf / 6 MB)
•  Environmental and historic maps - ten (pdf / 6 MB)
•  Environmental and historic maps - eleven (pdf / 6 MB)
•  Environmental and historic maps - twelve  (pdf / 5 MB)
•  Environmental and historic maps - thirteen (pdf / 6 MB)
•  Environmental and historic maps - fourteen (pdf / 7 MB)
•  Environmental and historic maps - fifteen (pdf / 4 MB)

Mineral resource maps

•  Mineral resource maps key (pdf / 345 KB)
•  Minerals resource maps - one (pdf / 3 MB)
•  Minerals resource maps - two (pdf / 3 MB)
•  Minerals resource maps - three (pdf / 3 MB)
•  Minerals resource maps - four (pdf / 4 MB)
•  Minerals resource maps - five (pdf / 5 MB)
•  Minerals resource maps - six (pdf / 5 MB)
•  Minerals resource maps - seven (pdf / 5 MB)
•  Minerals resource maps - eight (pdf / 3 MB)
•  Minerals resource maps - nine (pdf / 4 MB)
•  Minerals resource maps - ten (pdf / 4 MB)
•  Minerals resource maps - eleven (pdf / 6 MB)
•  Minerals resource maps - twelve (pdf / 6 MB)
•  Minerals resource maps - thirteen (pdf / 5 MB)
•  Minerals resource maps - fourteen (pdf / 4 MB)
•  Minerals resource maps - fifteen (pdf / 3 MB)

Please contact the Minerals and waste joint plan team and we will be pleased to help.