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<p> </p><p>Coal extraction is handled through a locally-led planning process and decisions
on planning applications are for the relevant mineral planning authority.</p><p>Schedule
5 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 gives mineral planning authorities the
power to impose planning conditions on mineral operators to provide for site restoration
and aftercare with their application for minerals extraction. In addition the National
Planning Policy Framework and planning guidance allows mineral planning authorities
to request financial guarantees from applicants to underpin the conditions covering
the restoration and aftercare of a site in exceptional circumstances.</p><p>New Section
106 agreements are negotiated between the developer and the applicant. Existing legislation
allows those entering into the planning obligation to specify the date or dates when
any required sum is to be paid to the planning authority. Section 106 planning obligation
agreements are legally binding, and the mineral planning authority can enforce any
breach of an agreement.</p><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p>
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