Minerals and waste planning can often feel specialist, complex or disconnected from day to day planning work. Yet it underpins almost every aspect of sustainable development - enabling housing delivery, realising investment in infrastructure, supporting climate action, delivering biodiversity, and accelerating the transition to a circular economy!
This RTPI South West webinar will demystify minerals and waste planning and explain why these issues matter to ALL planners, not just those working in the minerals and waste sector. It will highlight how minerals and waste considerations interact with mainstream land use planning and what this means in practice for local plans, the allocation of sites and with development management decisions.
What to expect:
The session will give a clear and accessible overview of the policy and legal framework for minerals and waste planning. Speakers will explain why minerals are essential to delivering homes, infrastructure, energy, and jobs, and highlight the practical planning challenges such as protecting mineral resources for the future, keeping aggregate supplies moving, and managing new development that sits next to critical sites like quarries, wharves, and rail depots.
For waste, the webinar will look at how planning supports the waste hierarchy and the shift towards a circular economy. This includes ensuring enough waste management capacity, dealing with issues such as landfill closures, housing encroaching on waste sites, and waste crime, and understanding the planning implications of changes like Simpler Recycling.
Finally, the session will look ahead at key emerging issues, including the challenge of decarbonisation, the growing importance of critical and energy minerals, increasing demand for recycling infrastructure, and innovation in mineral and waste site restoration.
What you'll gain:
- Develop your understanding on the interrelation of minerals and waste in the planning process including its policy and legal framework and its contribution to sustainable development.
- Identify how minerals and waste considerations influence local plans, site allocations, and development management decisions, including managing interactions with key infrastructure such as quarries and waste facilities.
- Be able to evaluate key current and emerging issues—such as decarbonisation, circular economy, and recycling infrastructure—and understand how these should be incorporated into their day-to-day planning work.
This event is eligible for up to 1.5 hours of CPD and covers the following subjects from the core CPD framework:
- Development and Infrastructure Planning
- Climate Change and Environmental Planning
Speakers:
Robin Drake, Team Manager | Development Management & Minerals & Waste Planning at
Gloucestershire County Council
Chris Herbert, Director of Planning for Mineral Resources and Dimension Stone at the Minerals Product Association
Ellie Inglis-Woolcock, Principal Development Officer – Minerals and Waste at Cornwall Council
Ian John, Director of Planning, Permitting & Estates at Viridor
