· Core Strategy: a document setting out the strategic vision and objectives, and including a suite of development control policies to guide minerals and waste development.
· Site Specific Policies: Document setting out site specific proposals for mineral and waste development and supporting site specific policies.
· Earith / Mepal Area Action Plan: this sets proposals for the Earith / Mepal area, where there are interrelated minerals and waste issues to consider. There are also other issues such as transport, flood protection, and opportunities to make sustainable use of land and water resources, including improving the quality of the Ouse Washes through providing flood alleviation, mineral extraction and comprehensive quarry restoration.

For ease of reference a summary list of site specific proposals has also been produced.

There are also a number of supporting background documents that sit along the DPDs:
· Sustainability Appraisals: one for each of the above 3 Plan documents. These reports, undertaken by independent consultants, appraise the Plans against a set of sustainability objectives - economic, social and environmental.
· Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Proposed Minerals and Waste Sites Issues and Options stage – Landscape Assessment: This study undertaken by LDA Design includes an assessment of likely landscape capacity i.e. the extent to which each suggested site could accommodate minerals and waste development without significant effect to its character or that of the wider area. It also takes into account the practice of mitigation and reinstatement.
(Two supporting maps showing environmental constraints for suggested minerals & waste sites are to large to be put on the website. These can be viewed at deposit points and exhibitions.)
· Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Minerals and Waste Development Plan Document Ecological Appraisal of Potential Sites: This study, undertaken by RPS is an ecological appraisal of suggested sites put forward for the Minerals and Waste Plan.
Stage 1: is a desktop ecological appraisal of records available
Stage 2: is a report of site visits to assess the potential of sites to support habitats and species of conservation importance. (Appendix 4 contains Phase 1 Survey Maps of the sites)
Stage 1&2 Conclusions: presents a summary and qualitative assessment of data presented in stages 1 & 2
· Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Minerals Background Paper – Minerals Statistics: This background paper explains the source of statistics and the methodology that has been used to forecast mineral requirements over the Plan period, which is 2003 to 2021 (inclusive).
· Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Statistical Basis for the Waste Development Document: This report, undertaken by Jacobs Babtie, models agreed assumptions and scenarios for waste provisions against national and regional targets, to determine the type and quantities of waste that will be arising over the Plan period, the amount that will need to be managed, and indicative numbers and types of facilities required.
· Appropriate Assessment: A report which examines the potential impact of preferred options for minerals and waste development on internationally designated wildlife sites (Natura 2000 sites). This is the preliminary stage of an Appropriate Assessment; further work may be required at later stage as the Plan progresses.

The Plan and its Supporting Documents part 2