Planning and Transportation Regeneration Scrutiny Select Committee Minerals Planning Update
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Planning and Transportation
Regeneration Scrutiny Select Committee
Minerals Planning Update
25th April 2013
Agenda Item ????
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Minerals and the Planning System
Minerals Development Plan Document
Salford’s Mineral Resources
Peat
Sand & Gravel
Coal
Unconventional Gas
Presentation Overview
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Minerals and the Planning System
National minerals planning policy is set out in NPPF.
NPPF says that minerals are essential to support sustainable economic growth and quality of life.
It is important to ensure a sufficient supply of minerals but as they are a finite resource it is important to make best use of them.
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Minerals and the Planning System
Salford City Council has statutory role as the ‘Mineral Planning Authority’ and is required to plan for the sustainable use of minerals.
This role includes: • Preparing minerals planning policies and identifying suitable locations for minerals development• Determining minerals planning applications• Enforcement of planning control• Monitoring minerals sites to ensure compliance with conditions• Review of old minerals permissions• Preparing Local Aggregate Assessment
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Minerals DPD
Joint Minerals Plan provides a minerals planning framework for Greater Manchester.
Adoption of Plan set for the end of April 2013.
Aim:Protect local communities and the natural and built environmentSafeguard potentially economically viable mineral resourcesProvide a steady and adequate supply of minerals to meet GM’s needs
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Salford’s Mineral Resources
Sand & Gravel – Astley Moss
Peat – Little Woolden Moss, Astley Moss
Coal - Cutacre
Coal Bed Methane – Barton Moss
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Extraction at Astley Moss
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Astley Moss
Astley Moss Sand & Gravel
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Peat
Peat Harvesting
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Peat
Peat Sites In Salford
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Cutacre Open Cast Coal Site
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Cutacre Open Cast Coal Site
2008
2012
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Site on Salford/Wigan/Bolton border
Permission granted on appeal in 2001 subject to conditions for the winning and working of coal by opencast methods and reclamation and restoration of land
• In total, 1,150,160 tonnes of coal extracted.
• Last load of coal left site on 20th June 2011.
• Work now focussed on restoring the site – no more coal extraction.
• Bolton’s Core Strategy identifies part of Cutacre for strategic employment uses – planning applications now anticipated in the coming months for employment uses and Country Park.
Cutacre Open Cast Coal Site
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• Number of types of unconventional gas including:
– Coal Bed Methane
– Shale Gas
– Coal Mine Methane
Unconventional Gas
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Coal Bed Methane
• Generic name given to gases locked into coal measures
• Released by drilling directly into unworked coal seams • Surface infrastructure usually comprises a small
compound
• Extraction of coalbed methane does not involve ‘fracking’
Unconventional Gas
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Unconventional Gas
Barton Moss
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Barton Moss
• Planning permission granted for drilling 2 exploratory boreholes for Coal Bed Methane (CBM), appraisal and production on land north of Barton Moss road was granted in 2010.
• This planning permission does not allow for fracking to take place
• Works to date include the building of an access road, a compacted course aggregate on a membrane to distribute the weight over the moss to mark out the site compound, 3 drill cellars have been built (preparation work for the drill rig) and the site is enclosed by Heras fencing.
• Drilling works are yet to commence on site.
Unconventional Gas
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Shale Gas
• How Shale Gases are worked
• Regulation of Fracking Operations
• Government Approach to Fracking
Unconventional Gas