Managing Landscape Change: A multi-disciplinary approach to future mineral extraction in North Yorkshire
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North Yorkshire County Council
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Northallerton
North Yorkshire
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England
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- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1012712
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Introduction
The Managing Landscape Change Project was commissioned by North Yorkshire County Council and carried out by Capita Symonds Ltd working with Oxford Archaeology North between April 2011 and April 2012. The work was funded through the English Heritage National Heritage Protection Commissions Programme, with a contribution from the County Council.
North Yorkshire is a rich area for mineral resources, containing resources of sand and gravel, crushed rock aggregates, particularly limestone and to a lesser extent sandstone, clay, chalk, and silica sand. As minerals can only be worked where they are found, and as this may be in environmentally-sensitive or designated landscape areas, the need to manage impacts to an acceptable minimum in the planning and operating of extraction sites is a high priority. North Yorkshire County Council, as the mineral planning authority, is currently engaged in preparing its Minerals and Waste Development Framework (MWDF) to cover the period to 2030.
Broader in scope than the archaeological resource assessment of aggregate area projects which have been undertaken in some other local authority areas through ALSF funding, this was a multi-disciplinary project seeking to assess environmental character and capacity for areas of surface mineral resource potential, covering historic environment as well as biodiversity and landscape issues, to inform the preparation of the North Yorkshire Minerals Core Strategy.
The project area includes all of the areas of surface mineral resource potential (ASMRP) within North Yorkshire, excluding urban areas, the two national parks (Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors) and the City of York Council area. These surface mineral resources include sands and gravels, crushed rock, clay, silica sand and building stone. Deeper sub-surface resources, such as gas and coal, were not studied.
