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Mineral planning factsheets

MineralsUK – Planning

Cavanacaw inside pit 21. © PMcDonnell

51 has produced a series of mineral planning factsheets. Originally commissioned to support the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister’s (now the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government) research project Industrial minerals: issues for planning report, the factsheets cover economically important minerals that are extracted in Britain. They are regularly updated and provide an overview of the supply of a specific mineral. They are primarily intended to inform the land-use planning process, but will be of much wider interest.

Mineral planning factsheets
Material Published
October 2011
June 2011
January 2006
April 2022
June 2024
August 2004
May 2014
June 2021
June 2019
January 2006
October 2006
March 2010
January 2006
January 2006

December 2025
September 2009
January 2006
October 2015

November 2025
2005
March 2005
April 2011
April 2011
January 2006
January 2020
February 2008

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