Part 13: General Schedule 7: Plan making Section 15CB: Minerals and waste plan Effect
Subsection (1) requires each minerals and waste planning authority (MWPA) to prepare one or more documents which are to be known collectively as the minerals and waste plan. This enables plans to be produced as follows:
Combined (i.e., A minerals and waste plan);
Separately (i.e.,1. A minerals plan and 2. A waste plan);
Where possible through local government structure, a minerals and waste plan may be incorporated into a local plan (see section 15C(10)).
	Subsection (2) sets out that a minerals and waste plan must include policies setting out the amount, type, location, and timeframe for delivery of relevant development.
	Subsection (3) sets out things that a minerals and waste plan may include optionally, including relevant policies in relation to the particular characteristics and circumstances of the area (or part of it), non-mineral/waste development (where this is designed to enable minerals and waste development to take place), and relevant infrastructure requirements.
	Subsection (4) introduces a power for the Secretary of State to prescribe by regulations further matters that a minerals and waste plan must, or may, deal with. This would enable provision to be made as to further requirements for minerals and waste plans, or what is permissible, to adapt or respond flexibly to matters of national importance for example.
	Subsection (5) requires a minerals and waste plan to be prepared so that minerals and waste development contributes to the mitigation of, and adaptation to climate change.
	Subsection (6) requires a minerals and waste plan to take account of any local nature recovery strategy that relates to any part of the relevant area.
	Subsection (7) prevents a minerals and waste plan from including anything not explicitly permitted or required by this section and requires that the plan is not inconsistent with or essentially repeats any national development management policy (as defined at s.38ZA of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, inserted by section 94 of this Act).
	Subsection (8) provides that Part 2 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 applies in relation to a minerals and waste plan as it applies in relation to a local plan and subsection (9) indicates that subsection (8) is subject to much modification of Part 2, as it applies in relation to minerals and waste plans, as may be prescribed by regulations.
	Subsection (10) outlines the exceptions to which subsection (8) does not apply.