BIG building projects like quarries and landfills might clear council red tape more quickly in the future.

Oxfordshire County Council is reviewing its local information requirements for planning applications.

The local information requirements are a list of different details about a project which someone has to submit if they want the council to look over their proposed scheme.

They include design drawings, as well as reports on how the plan could affect local roads and air quality.

The county council only deals with applications for waste sites, quarries, and its own buildings.

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Because of these special kinds of applications, there are also requirements for prospective builders to explain how they would restore the local environment after digging at quarry or dumping at landfill is finished.

All other planning applications are made through district councils.

For the council to be able to consider whether a new quarry should go ahead it would need to information about different aspects of the proposed dig laid out by its local list of requirements.

The changes are part of a review which the council undertakes every two years of its planning guidelines, to make sure the process is efficient.

The county's residents will now be asked their opinions on the local requirements over a three-week period.