VIEWS are being sought on planning issues relating to minerals and waste across North Yorkshire.

A Minerals and Waste Plan, setting out the policies which will govern developments such as quarries and their extensions, recycling centres, and waste treatment centres, is currently being worked on.

It is being developed jointly by all the relevant authorities to enable the issues to be examined on a wider scale and to pool plan-making resources.

It will also help to identify the appropriate sites for any new minerals and waste developments up until the year 2030.

More information is available at libraries and main council offices, and online at northyorks.gov.uk/mwconsult.

The consultation period runs from May 17 to June 28. Further consultations will be held as work progresses, before the final plan is adopted in 2015.