Planning Advice Note: PAN 50 ANNEX B Controlling the Environmental Effects of Surface Mineral Workings Annex B: The Control of Dust at Surface Mineral Workings

DescriptionProvides advice on how the planning system can be used to keep dust emissions from surface mineral workings within environmentally acceptable limits.
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Planning Advice Note: PAN 50 ANNEX B

CONTROLLING THE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF SURFACE MINERAL WORKINGS
Annex B: The Control of Dust at Surface Mineral Workings

March 1998
© Crown Copyright 1998
ISSN 0141-514X

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contents

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Introduction

1

Background

10

Dust sources and impacts

16

Mineral type

18

Climate and topography

19

Type of processing activity

22

Site location

23

Dust standards and monitoring

24

Dust assessment

30

Methods of reducing and con trolling dust

33

Site layout

34

Method of working

37

Site management and monitoring

40

Planning and other environmental controls

47

Formulation of plans and policies

48

Environmental assessment

49

Pre-application discussions

52

Determination of a planning application

53

The interface between planning and environmental controls

56

Dust nuisance

57

Liaison

58

Conditions attached to planning permissions

59

General/ non specific conditions

60

Dust mitigation through watering

61

Other conditions relating to haul roads and traffic

63

Soil stripping and overburden handling

64

Cessation of activities

66

Monitoring of dust

68

Stand off distances

70

Other related conditions

72

Planning enforcement

73

Development plans

74

Conclusion

76

Note

78

Appendix: Summary of Good Practice on Dust

Bibliography

planning series:

  • National Planning Policy Guidelines (NPPGs) provide statements of Government policy on nationally important land use and other planning matters, supported where appropriate by a locational framework.
  • Circulars, which also provide statements of Government policy, contain guidance on policy implementation through legislative or procedural change.
  • Planning Advice Notes (PANs) provide advice on good practice and other relevant information.

Statements of Government policy contained in NPPGs and Circulars may, so far as relevant, be material considerations to be taken into account in development plan preparation and development control.

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