graham said:
The issue of mineral rights is a complete red herring. Someone else may well own the mineral rights but that gives them no rights of access and will, indeed, give them no right to actually extract anything without specific planning permission. For the mineral rights to be of any use to anyone they would need both ownership of the land and planning permision to develop their mine or quarry.
I think in law,that is incorrect about access.
A mine I worked at was refused access to a level on adjoining land where they had the mineral rights,but not ownership of the land,and the landowner had refused access to the mining company.
The landowner was taken to court and told he must allow access to the owner of/leasee of the mineral rights below his property.
I myself leased the mineral rights at a mine site from the owner of the rights.
The person who owned and farmed the land above the site had no say in the matter,as the rights were owned by someone else.
Planning permission is something different altogether.
Anyone can
apply for planning permission on someone elses property,and the property owner can do nothing about it.
