The Surrey Minerals Site Restoration Supplementary Planning Document 2011 (adopted July 2011) sets out Surrey County Council's vision for how existing and proposed mineral workings should be restored. It also identifies best practice in restoration techniques and presents indicative restoration schemes for preferred areas for primary aggregate and silica sand extraction.
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01 Adopted Restoration SPD - Chapters 1 to 4 (PDF)
The purpose of the SPD, explains the Surrey approach to restoration and enhancement, discusses the issue of inert fill and void space and sets out the preferred areas for mineral extraction identified in the Surrey Minerals Plan -
04 Adopted Restoration SPD - Chapters 5 to 8 (PDF)
Good restoration practice and enhancement, including how to develop a restoration vision. Outline the planning application and the restoration information the County Planning Authority will require, as well as the post-planning permission phases of a scheme. -
02 Adopted Restoration SPD - Preferred Areas A to H (PDF)
Indicative restoration schemes - intended as a starting point for further discussion when planning applications are prepared. -
03 Adopted Restoration SPD - Preferred Areas J to S (PDF)
More indicative restoration schemes - intended as a starting point for further discussion when planning applications are prepared. -
Adopted Restoration SPD - Part 2 - Appendices (PDF)
Appendices for the Minerals site restoration SPD providing references, contacts, guides and checklists (warning large file)