City of York Council, North Yorkshire Council (NYC) and the North York Moors National Park Authority have been working together to produce a Minerals and Waste Joint Plan covering all 3 planning authority areas.
The new Joint Plan will help the 3 Authorities take decisions on planning applications for minerals and waste development over the period up to 31 December 2030.
- Adoption of the Minerals and Waste Joint Plan
- Background to the Minerals and Waste Joint Plan
- Main Modification Consultation - July to September 2021
- Examination of the Minerals and Waste Joint Plan
- Submission of the Minerals and Waste Joint Plan
- Previous stages of consultation
- Our statutory responsibility for minerals and waste policy
Adoption of the Minerals and Waste Joint Plan
Following the receipt of the Inspectors Report and Appendix of Main Modifications on 4 February 2022, City of York Council, North Yorkshire Council and the North York Moors National Park Authority, have progressed the Plan to adoption. North Yorkshire Council adopted the Plan on 16 February and North York Moors National Park Authority adopted the plan on 21 March.
The City of York Council agreed to adopt the Minerals and Waste Joint Plan at its Full Council meeting on 27 April 2022, following the Local Plan Working Group on 7 March 2022 and Executive on 17 March 2022.
An Adoption Statement has been issued under Regulations 26 and 35 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning)(England) Regulations 2012 (as amended) and Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (as amended).
The Adopted Minerals and Waste Joint Plan and accompanying documents can be viewed below:
- Minerals and Waste Joint Plan
- Appendix 1 - Allocated Sites and Areas of Search
- Appendix 2 - Safeguarded Sites
- Appendix 3 - Monitoring
- Appendix 4 - Saved Policies replaced by the Minerals and Waste Joint Plan Policies
- Sustainability Appraisal Post Adoption Statement
- Policies Maps
- Inspector’s Report
- Main Modifications
Alternatively, paper copies can be viewed at the following locations:
City of York CouncilWest Offices
Station Rise
York
YO1 6GA
Viewing at West Offices is by appointment only - please contact the Strategic Planning Policy Team to make arrangements to view documents.
York Explore Libraries:
- York Explore Library, Library Square, York, YO1 7DS
- Acomb Explore Library, Front Street, Acomb, York, YO24 3BZ
- Clifton Explore Library, Rawcliffe Lane, Clifton, York, YO30 5SJ
- Tang Hall Explore Library, The Centre @ Burnholme, Mossdale Avenue, York, YO31 0HA
Posters will be displayed at all other libraries explaining how and where the documentation can be viewed.
For further information (including the full Examination Library), please see the Minerals and Waste Joint Plan Examination web page.
Background to the Minerals and Waste Joint Plan
The City of York Council, North Yorkshire Council and North York Moors National Park Authority received the Inspectors Report and Appendix of approved Main Modifications on 4 February 2022.
The Inspectors Report found the Minerals and Waste Joint Plan and supporting documents ‘sound’, subject to the Main Modifications.
Each of the 3 Authorities can now progress and adopt the Minerals and Waste Joint Plan.
Main Modification Consultation - July to September 2021
The Main Modification Consultation took place for 8 weeks between Wednesday 21 July and Wednesday 15 September 2021.
Key documents were available for inspection online: Minerals and Waste Joint Plan Examination.
Documents which were available to view included:
- Schedule of Main Modifications July 2021
- Schedule of Additional Changes July 2021
- Sustainability Appraisal Post Adoption Statement November 2020
- Habitat Regulations Assessment Addendum November 2019
- Appropriate Assessment of additional Joint Plan Sites added following MWJP Hearings November 2020
- SFRA Volume I, Data Review Document June 2018
- SFRA Volume II, Sequential Test Results June 2018
- Policies Map November 2020
Documents were made available to view at City of York Council’s West Offices, York, North Yorkshire County Council’s County Hall, Northallerton and at North York Moors National Park offices, Helmsley. Posters advertising the consultation were also available in all York libraries.
Examination of the Minerals and Waste Joint Plan
Following Submission of the Plan, an independent Inspector and Programme Officer were appointed to undertake Examination of the Joint Plan.
Examinations Hearing Sessions commenced in February 2018 following Submission of the Plan. The Examination was undertaken in phases.
Further information is provided via the Examination webpage Minerals and Waste Joint Plan Examination.
Submission of the Minerals and Waste Joint Plan
Notice was given, in accordance with regulation 22(3) of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012, that North Yorkshire Council, City of York Council and North York Moors National Park Authority have submitted their Minerals and Waste Joint Plan to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on 28 November 2017.
The Minerals and Waste Joint Plan Examination was made available for inspection on the North Yorkshire Council website or in hard copy at:
- North Yorkshire Council
- City of York Council
- North York Moors National Park
- District and Borough Council Offices
- all libraries in the Plan area
What is included in the Plan
The Minerals and Waste Joint Plan includes:
- the approach the 3 authorities would like to take in making decisions on future minerals and waste-related development
- guidelines for where, when and how much minerals and waste related development should take place in the plan area
- policies for each mineral type and the different types of waste produced in the area
- specific policies relating to development management issues, such as transport, protection of the environment and communities
- a number of sites which are considered suitable in principle, subject to necessary planning permission, for future minerals and waste development
Previous stages of consultation
The first consultation stage took place in May and June 2013. We presented initial information about the Plan and sought views on what the Plan should contain.
The 'Issues and Options' consultation took place in Spring 2014. We received comments on policies and potential allocations as well as further sites and information being submitted.
We ran a supplementary sites consultation during March 2015 which gave residents the opportunity to comment on new sites and information submitted during the previous stage.
We sought views on our 'Preferred Approach' via our Preferred Options Consultation between November 2015 and January 2016. The outcomes of this consultation have fed into our draft Joint Plan Publication.
We ran our Publication Consultation between 9 November and 21 December 2016. The responses we received at this stage have fed into our 'Proposed Changes' consultation document.
We also consulted on our 'Addendum of Proposed Changes' to the Publication draft Minerals and Waste Joint Plan between 12 July and 6 September 2017.
All documents we have produced in relation to the Minerals and Waste Joint Plan are available to view on the North Yorkshire minerals and waste plan page.
Our statutory responsibility for minerals and waste policy
We have a statutory responsibility to plan for future minerals and waste policy as set out in the Localism Bill.
We are helping to meet our Duty to Co-Operate by preparing this plan in partnership with North Yorkshire Council and the North York Moors National Park Authority.
Also see
- Developing a new local plan
- Our Green Infrastructure (GI) strategy
- Neighbourhood planning
- Brownfield register
- Planning and building