Comment

Representation ID: 23154

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Black Country UNESCO Global Geopark Partnership

Agent: Black Country UNESCO Global Geopark Partnership

We acknowledge the need to safeguard minerals and transformation to recycled materials as provisioned within the statements and policies of the plan. We have little to add but we are conscious that these workings will be the last significant exposures of the geology of the Black Country that will ever be made.

As such we would request that within policy MIN 4 that another bullet point (probably as an addition to bullet-point 3) is inserted to permit access to these workings to permit recording and sampling the geology prior to restoration of these last few mineral workings of the Black Country. This will then ensure some long-term heritage and knowledge gain for the Geopark before these last parts of the minerals industry of the Black Country are gone