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Mineral Planning Guidance 11: The Control of Noise at Surface Mineral Workings

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This note gives guidelines on how both planning controls and good environmental practice can be used to keep noise emissions to environmentally acceptable levels. Paragraphs 31-42 have been cancelled in relation to aggregates related development by MTAN (Mineral Technical Advice Note) 1: Aggregates and for coal-related development by MTAN 2: Coal.
This note was published by the then Welsh Office and the then Department of the Environment in 1993.