DTLR research was published in March relating to the Wareham Basin in Dorset, where there is perhaps the most diverse range of potentially conflicting resource development and management pressures in the country. To regulate the development of land in the public interest, the planning process requires access to reliable and up to date information on the spatial relationship between the distribution, quality and relative importance of mineral resources and the environmental constraints that may limit their extraction. DTLR commissioned the British Geological Survey, with Minerals Resource and Planning Associates and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, to carry out a detailed study of the interrelationships of the mineral, land use and environmental resources, and planning constraints of the Wareham Basin and to make recommendations for the future. The principles of this study may be applied to other areas.
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