Town and Country Planning (Minerals) Act 1981 (c. 36)

PART I England and Wales

Reviews of workings

3 Periodical reviews of mineral workings

The following section shall be inserted after section 264 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971—

“264A Duty of planning authorities to review mineral workings.

(1) It shall be the duty of every mineral planning authority—

(a) to undertake at such intervals as they consider fit reviews of every site in their area in, on or under which operations for the winning and working of minerals—

(i) are being carried out; or

(ii) have been carried out at any time during the relevant period ; or

(iii) are authorised by planning permission but have not been begun ; and

(b) to make in respect of any such site any order under section 45, 51, 51A or 5 IB of this Act that they consider appropriate.

(2) In subsection (1) of this section " the relevant period ", in relation to a review, means the period of five years preceding the date of the beginning of the review or such other period as may be prescribed.”.