Planning Application Details

P97/W0938/CMApplication Type: County Matters (Show Map - opens in new window)
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Description
Deposit inert waste and excavation of on-site material to create causeways across the lake to separate the various water sports and enhance safety. (As amended on 10 February 1998).
Location
Queenford Lake Watersports Centre, Dorchester
Grid Reference
457837/195381
Applicant
Stuart Ely
22 Greenmore
Woodcote
READING
Berms,   RG8 0RG
Agent
Stuart Ely
22 Greenmore
Woodcote
READING
Berms,   RG8 0RG
Case Officer
Mr M.P.Brookes
Telephone: 01235 422600
Email: planning@southoxon.gov.uk
Consultation / Notification
No further Representations on this application will be accepted.

Consultations / Notifications to date are shown below.

Name / Number
Date Sent
Response Date
 
Tech.Dir,Babtie Engineering S.
12 01 1998
 
Environmental Health North
12 03 1998
 
Landscape Architect
 
Technical Director, Babtie
04 02 1998
 
S.Clarke,Snr.Pl.Liaison Off.
21 01 1998
 
c/o Mrs S Russell,
Brookfield,
Berrick Salome,
WALLINGFORD
OX10 6JQ
28 02 1998
 
S.Clarke,Snr.Pl.Liaison Off.
29 07 1998
 
c/o Mr G G D Russell
The Pigeons,
High Street,
Dorchester-on-Thames,
WALLINGFORD, Oxon
OX10 7HH
11 03 1998
 
Thames Water Utilities-Reading
09 02 1998
 
Application Type
Minor (County Matters)
Application Progress
Date Received  
23rd December 1997
Registration Date  
23rd December 1997
Target Decision Date  
17th February 1998
Decision
County Matter - Approval on 13th May 1998
Conditions / Refusal Reasons
From the commencement of the development to the cessation of the use hereby permitted a copy of the terms of this planning permission including all documents hereby permitted and any documents subsequently approved in accordance with this permission, or amendments approved pursuant to this permission, shall be displayed at the office on the site and shall be made known to any persons(s) given responsbility of the management or control of waste activies/operations on site. Reason: To enable any easy reference and to encourage compliance with the requirements of this permission so as to ensure the orderly operation and restoration of the site. The development hereby permitted shall commence within one year from the date of this permission. Reason: To comply with Section 91 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 The landfilling hereby permitted shall cease by 31 December 2000 and the site shall be restored by 30 September 2001 or within 6 months of the achievement of final tipping levels, whichever date is the earlier, in accordance with the relevant conditions below unless otherwise approved by the Local Planning Autority in writing. Reason: To ensure a satisfactory form of development. No development shall be carried out other than in strict accordance with the approved plans ref. nos. 1, 2A and 3, supporting statement and application details unless otherwise approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Reason: For the avoidance of doubt and to maintain planning control over the site. All oil/or fuel tanks shall be surrounded by bund walls of sufficient height and construction as to contain 110% of the total contents of the tanks and associated pipework in the event of a spillage. The floor and walls of the bunded area shall be impervious to both water and oil. All filling points, draw pipes, vents and sight gauges shall be located within the bunded area. The pipes shall vent downwards into the bund. All plant and machinery not in current use shall be stored in a tidy manner and all redundant plant, machinery, vehicles, or scrap shall be removed from the site. Reason: To minimise the risk of pollution of water courses and aquifers. No floodlighting shall be erected on site without the prior approval in writing of the Local Planning Authority. Reason: In the interests of the amenities of the occupiers of nearby properties. No waste materials shall be imported to the site for the purposes of sorting for sale, storage, or dispoal at some other location. Reason: To minimise lorry movements and the time taken to complete the landfill operations. No waste skips or containers shall be stored on site. Reason: To ensure the developmet is carried out in a properly phased manner with the minimum of detriment to the character and amenities of the area. Except with the prior agreement of the Local Planning Authority in writing, no operations, including vehicles leaving or entering the site, authorised or required by this permission shall be carried out and plant shall not be operated, other than during the following hours: Between 0700 and 1800 hours Mondays to Fridays; 0700 hours to 1300 hours on Saturdays. No such operations shall take place on Sundays or recognised public holidays or on Saturdays immediately following Bank Holiday Fridays. Reason: In the interest of the amenities of the area. No importation of waste shall take place through the Drayton Road access, as shown on approved plan 2A, until the access road, visibility splays, parking and manoeuvring provison have been laid out, constructed and surfaced to the specification and satisfactory of the Local Planning Authority and these areas shall be thereafter retained and kept available for these purposes. Reason: To ensure the Drayton Road access road is constructed with due regard to highway safety and the local environment. No vehicle shall enter the public highway unless its wheels and chassis have been cleaned to prevent material being deposited on the highway. Reason: In the interests of highway safety and to prevent mud and dust getting on the highway. All internal site haul roads shall be maintained in a condition free from pot holes. Reason: To minimise noise distrubance to neighbouring residents. No plant, machinery or vehicles shall be used on the site unless fitted with effective silencers. Reason: To safeguard the amenity of the area and of local residents. Between the hours of 0700 hours and 1800 hours (daytime) the noise levels arising from the development shall not exceed 55dB (LAeq) (1 hour), freefield at any noise sensitive properties near the site. Reason: To protect the amenities of local residents. All existing trees and hedges shall be retained. In the event that existing or newly planted trees become damaged or otherwise defective during the period of the development the Local Planning Authority shall be notified as soon as reasonbly practicable and a programme of remedial action shall be submitted for approval and thereafter implemented as approved. Any trees or hedges removed without the Local Planning Authority's permission or which die, or become in the opinion of the Local Planning Authority seriously diseased or otherwise damaged up to 31 December 2005 shall be replaced as soon as is reasonably practicable and, in any case, by not later than the end of the first available planting season with trees or plants of such size and species and in such locations as may be approved by the Local Planning Authority. Reason: To ensure the continuity of amenity afforded by existing trees, hedges or hedgerows. Vehicular access to and from the site shall be only from the Burcot Lane entrance shown on approved plan no. 24 except that vehicles may also enter the Drayton Lane access shown as 'existing gate access via Drayton Road' an approved plan 2A but may not leave by it. Reason: In the interests of highway safety and to protect the amenities of the area. Details of facilitis to clean the wheels of lorries leaving the site shall be submitted for the approval in writing of the Local Planning Authority within one month of the date of this permisssion. The approved facilities shall be implemented within one month of their approval, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Reason: In the interests of highway safety. Details of a drainage scheme sufficient to ensure that no puddling occurs at the Burcot Lane entrance of the site shall be submitted for the approval in writing of the Local Planning Authority within one month of the date of this permission and any scheme that is approved shall be implemented within one month of that approval. Reason: In the interest of highway safety and safeguarding the local environment. No waste materials shall be deposited on the site unless they are inert. No soils imported to the site shall be used for restoration if they are in any way contamined with non-inert materials. Reason: To prevent water pollution. As the development proceeds the land shall be progressively restored in accordance with the details set out in the approved supporting statement. Reason: To ensure the early and satisfactory restoration of the land to a state suitable for leisure use. The area to be used for sorting and processing of inert wastes for use in construction of the causeways shall not be other than the area hatched black and marked 'site of existing landfill restoration to be used as sorting/processing area' on approved plan no.2A. Reason: In order to limit the area affected by the development to that proposed, in the interests of local amenities. No sorting of wastes shall take place on site until a scheme for sorting wastes has been submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority in writing. Reason: To ensure that the sorting of wastes is carried out in a manner that will not injure local amenities. No access bridges shall be erected except in the locations shown on approvd plan no. 2A and except in accordance with construction details agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Reason: To ensure that the bridges are in character with the landscaped watersports site. The gradients of the causeways shall be as shown in blue on the plan accompanying the letter of 11 February 1998. Reason: To ensure that the caseways are visually attractive, can support adequate vegetation and are not easily eroded. A landscape and planting scheme must be submitted to the Local Planning Authority within three months of the date of this permission and any that is approved shall be implemented within the time scale shown in the scheme, but in any event, by 31 December 2001. Such a scheme shall include provision for the following: (a) an accurate plan showing the general position, of all existing trees on the site; (b) landscaping alongside the A4074 sufficient to prevent views into the site from the A4074; (c) landscaping to be carried out including a design showing the tree and shrub species, numbers sizes, location and spacing and how this relates to the overall layout of the recreational development; and (d) details of the grass species mixes for the causeways. Reason: To ensure that the value of the site is enhanced. Reeds (phragmites) shall be planted alongisde the shoreline of the causeways in accordance with the approved supporting statement, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority, such planting to be completed by 31 December 2001. Reason: To ensure that the causeways are protected from eorision and to enhance the landscape value of the lakes. Within three months of the date of this periossion, details of the construction of the gate piers on the Burcot Land access shall be submitted to the Local Planning Authority together with samples of construction materials to be used. No construction of gate piers shall take place that is not in accordance with details approved by the Local Planning Authority. Construction of the approved gate piers shall be finished before 30 September 1998 unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Reason: To ensure that the entrance is in character with the landscaped watersports centre. No audible means of warning of reversing vehicles shall be fixed to, or used on, any mobile plant except in accordane with details to be agreed by the Local Planning Authority. Reason: To protect the amenities of occupiers of neaby properties from unreasonable noise intrusion.
Appeal
No appeal lodged.
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