he Minerals Development Document (MDD) is required by central Government to plan for a steady and adequate supply of minerals
in Essex to meet the County’s current and future needs to 2028.
The MDD Preferred Approach
will be consulted on between the 9 December 2010 until 17 February 2011. The document sets out the preferred strategy, criteria
and sites to meet our mineral needs, and has been developed building on feedback from earlier consultations in 2005 and 2009.
Your views will help inform the next stage, the Submission document consultation, due to take place in December 2011.
The Preferred Approaches
The Preferred Approach to meeting our mineral needs is to reduce wastage of minerals, to encourage recycling, to promote sustainable
construction and to identify new sand and gravel quarries to serve the whole county until 2028, and also to reduce the distances
minerals are transported.
Twenty new extraction areas have been identified across the county: four of these are new and sixteen are extensions to eight
existing quarries. These are mainly for sand and gravel extraction, plus some silica sand. An extension to a brick clay site
is also included.
