Planning Application Details

Unless otherwise agreed with the mineral planning authority all extraction shall cease, all plant and machinery shall be removed including the blockmaking plant and the site restored no later than 31.12.2010. Reason: To comply with Schedule 5 Para 1 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. Unless otherwise agreed in writing by the mineral planning authority all work and restoration shall be carried out in accordance with the accompanying plans; Site Survey/Existinng Situation S39x5b Location Plan S39/R1 Working Overview S39/R2 Detail Working phase 2 S39/R3 Detail Working phases 3, 4, 5 S39/R4 Detail Working phase 6 S39/R5 Detail Working phase 7 S39/R6 Restoration Overview S39/R7 Detailed Restoration S39/R8 Reason: To ensure the site is properly worked and restored. Except with the prior arrangement of the mineral planning authority in writing, no operations permitted or required by this permission shall be carried out except between the following times: 0700 hours and 1800 hours on Monday to Friday 0700 hours and 1300 hours on Saturday and no operations permitted shall be carried out on Sundays or a bank holiday or as otherwise may be agreed in writing by the mineral planning authority. Reason: To protect the amenities of adjoining residents. All traffic associated with the operations shall access the site from the existing access points 1 and 2 (as shown on approved Plan No. S39/R2) for phases 1-5 and A-D and on completion of phase 5 of the existing points 1 and 2 shall be closed to traffic associated with sand and gravel extraction and processing and the new access point 3 onto the B478 shall be constructed to serve the second plant site (as shown on approved Plan No. S39/R2) unless otherwise agreed in writing by the mineral planning authority. Reason: In the interests of highway safety. Prior to the construction of acccess point 3 as shown on approved Plan No. S39/R2 final details of the new access incorporating landscaping shall be submitted for approval in writing by the mineral planning authority. The new access shall be constructd in accordance with the approved details and shall be brought into use prior to the use of the second plant site. Reason: In interests of highway safety. The surface of all site accesses shall be maintained in a good state of repair and kept free of mud and debris at all times. Reason: In the interests of highway safety. No lorry shall leave the site unless the wheels and chassis have been cleaned sufficiently to prevent mud or dust being carried on to the highway. Reason: In the interests of highway safety. All internal haul roads will be maintained free of potholes and shall be removed when no longer required or during the course of site restoration whichever is the sooner. Reason: To ensure the site is satisfactorily restored and to minimise noise disturbance to neighbouring residents. Any fuel lubricant and other pollutants shall be handled on the site in such a manner as to prevent the pollution of any watercourse or aquifer. Reason: To prevent pollution of the water environment. Any above ground oil storage tank(s) including those used by contractors during construction shall be sited on an impervious base and surrounded by a suitable liquid tight bunded compound. No drainage outlet shall be provided. The bunded area shall be capable of containing 110% of the volume of the largest tank and all fill pipes, draw pipes, and sight gauges shall be enclsoed within its curtilage. The vent pipe shall be directed downwards into the bund. Reason: To prevent pollution of the water environment. No solid matter shall be deposited such that it passes or is likely to pass into any watercourse. Reason: To prevent pollution of watercourses and ground water. No water shall be discharged from the site which is sufficiently contaminated by silt or clay to cause clouding or sedimentation in adjoining ditches, ponds or watercourses. Reason: To prevent pollution of ditches and watercourses. There shall be no extraction or deposit of waste within 16 metres of Berry Brook or 10 metres of any other drainage channel. There shall be no obstruction of acces to any watercourse. Reason: To retain access to the watercourses for the Environment Agency to carry out its functions and prevent damage to or pollution of the watercourse and to protect flora and fauna dependent on the aquatic environment. No excavation shall take place within a distance of 12 metres measured perpendicularly either side of any gas pipeline which passes through the site or as may otherwise be agreed by the mineral planning authority in consultation with Transco. Reason: To ensure no damage occurs to any gas pipeline crossing the site. There shall be no direct connection between the excavations and any watercourse. Reason: To prevent pollution of the water environment. No permanent embankment shall be raised on any part of the site liable to flood except as part of a scheme to be agreed by the mineral planning authority prior to commencement of works. The scheme should be designed to offer a reduction (but not necessarily elimination) of flood risk to nearby properties. Reason: To explore restoration opportunities for minor works such as embankments to be placed to reduce flood risk to surrounding properties. No raising of existing ground levels shall take place as a result of infilling operations using mineral waste from within the site on any part liable to flood. Reason: To prevent the increased risk of flooding due to impendance of flood flows and redirection of flood storage capacity. No pumping of excavations shall take place whilst the adjoining watercourses are running bank full. Reason: To prevent the increased risk of flooding. Noise levels shall not exceed 55 dB (Leaq) 1 hour freefield at noise sensitive properties during normal operations and 70 dB (Leaq) 1 hour freefield during temporary earth moving operations, or as the mineral planning authority may agree in writing. Reason: To minimise the noise disturbance experienced by neighbouring residents. A mobile bowser will be employed when required to suppress dust arising as a result of the permitted operations. Reason: To protect the amenities of local residents. No reversing vehicle alarms or other methods of warning of reversing vehicles shall be used on any mobile plant except in accordance with details agreed with the mineral planning authority in writing. Reason: To protect the amenities of occupiers of nearby premises from unreasonable noise intrusion. No floodlighting shall be erected on site without the prior approval of the mineral planning authority in writing. Reason: In the interests of the amenities of the occupier of nearby properties. No trees or hedges (as shown on approved plan S39/R8) within the site shall be removed unless previously agreed in writing with the mineral planning authority. Reason: To maintain the visual amenities of the area. No mineral extraction from phases 1 to 5 shall take place after 6 months from the date of these new conditions until the applicant has submitted a phased programme of archaeological monitoring, recording and publication in accordance with a written scheme of investigation andit has been approved in writing by the mineral planning authority. No working shall take place in any areas identified for monitoring in that programme until monitoring and recording has been completed. Reason: The development may affect a site of archaeological interest. Soil handling will only take place when the soils are dry and friable. Reason: In order not to damage soil quality. Topsoils and subsoils will be stripped, stored and respread separately from one another in accordance with the submitted scheme unless otherwise agreed or modified by the mineral planning authority in writing. Reason: To ensure the site is satisfactorily restored. No turf, topsoils or subsoils shall be removed from site. Reason: All soils are required on site to ensure a satisfactory restoration of the land. Bunding shall not be carried out other than in accordance with the approved scheme (as shown on approved plans S39/R3, R4, R5 and R6) unless otherwise agreed in writing by the mineral planning authority. Reason: In the interests of visual amenity and to ensure proper restoration of the site. There shall be no excavation or any other activity associated with the implementation of the planning permission within one and a half times the overhang of any tree. Reason: To ensure no damage to existing trees during the course of the operations. There shall be no storage of any soils within three metres of any tree and this distance shall be defined by a chestnut paling fence or such other appropriate method as the mineral planning authority may agree and this distance shall be maintained during the course of the development. Reason: To ensure no damage to existing trees during the course of the operations. With the exception of stripping, storing and respreading of soils no machinery shall be operated or vehicles used except within areas being worked, filled or restored or on the access road. Reason: To protect the amenities of adjoining residents. All bunds of topsoil and subsoil shall be evenly graded and seeded with perrennial Italian dwarf rye grass seed or such other grass seed mix as may be agreed by the mineral planning authority in the first available planting season and shall be maintained to the satisfaction of the mineral planning authority. Reason: In the interests of visual amenity and to ensure the site is satisfactorily restored. The site shall be progressively reclaimed and maintained in accordance with the scheme and plans submitted unless otherwise approved by the mineral planning authority in writing. Reason: To ensure proper restoration of the site. Final levels of the reclaimed land are to be no higher than the original ground levels as shown on approved plan No. S39/x5B, and graded to prevent ponding of surface water. Reason: To prevent the increased risk of flooding. In the event of any tree dying or being seriously damaged or destroyed as a result of the operations hereby approved, a new tree or equivalent number of trees of a species approved by the mineral planning authority shall be planted and maintained in a position or positions approved by the mineral planning authority. Reason: To ensure the protection of trees on the land and to preserve the amenities of the locality. A detailed scheme for landscaping and tree and/or shrub planting shall be submitted to the mineral planning authority. It shall specify the proportion of each tree and shrub species to be planted and their general layout along with the contouring and surfacing of all open space areas. Any scheme approved shall be carried out on a phased basis in the first planting and seeding season following the restoration of any area. All trees and shrubs shall be protected by either spiral guards or tree/shrub shelters. Any trees or plants which, within a period of 5 years from the date of planting, die, are removed or become seriously damaged or diseased shall be replaced in the next planting season with others of similar size and species unless the mineral planning authority gives written consent to any variation. Reason: To improve the appearance of the site in the interests of visual amenity. Aftercare shall be carried out in accordance with an approved scheme for a period of 5 years on each part of the restored area in accordance with the approved scheme, beginning when restoration is completed on any part of the site in accordance with conditions on this permission. The scheme shall include provision of an annual site meeting to discuss the detailed steps necessary on the restored land. Reason: To ensure the restored land is correctly husbanded. No later than 4 weeks before each annual meeting referred to in Condition 37 which shall be held at an agreed time with the mineral planning authority a detailed scheme for the aftercare shall be submitted to the mineral planning authority. This scheme shall be amended as necessary following the annual meeting and submitted for approval to the mineral planning authority within 4 weeks of that meeting. Any approved scheme shall be implemented in accordance with the details and timescales of that approved scheme. Reason: To bring the land to the standard required for amenity use. No aggregates shall be imported to the site for any purpose whatsoever unless otherwise agreed in writing by the mineral planning authority. Reason: To minimise lorry traffic generation and the duration of disturbance from the mineral working. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995, or any order revoking and re-enacting that order, no disposal of silt from the processing plants shall take place except in locations and in accordance with details previously agreed in writing by the mineral planning authority. Reason: To prevent pollution of the water environment. One year from the date of this permission, a detailed ecological survey of the proposed nature conservation area shall be undertaken and submitted for approval in writing by the mineral planning authority. Reason: To determine the ecological interest of the area in order to assist in the preparation of a management plan. Details of the layout and surfacing of proposed pathways and car parks to be constructed in connection with the after use of the site shall be submitted within 6 months of the date of this permission for subsequent approval by the mineral planning authority in writing and any pathways and car parks approved shall be laid out in accordance with the approved scheme within 3 months of final restoration of the site. Reason: No details having been submitted, they are reserved for later approval. Prior to the use of the second plant site (as shown on approved plan S39/R2), all items of mechanical plant and equipment shall be acoustically enclosed in accordance with a scheme approved in writing by the mineral planning authority. Reason: In order to secure a reduction in the level of noise emanating from the second plant site. A method statement shall be submitted to the mineral planning authority within 6 months of the date of this permission, giving details as to how fuel spillages or other potentially polluting material will be dealt with. Any statement that is approved shall be implementated within one month of it being approved. Reason: To prevent pollution of the water environment. No material, other than clean, uncontaminated, wholly inert soil, subsoil and other excavated natural material, arising as a consequence of mineral extraction from the site, shall be used in the restoration of the site. Reason: To prevent pollution of the water environment. No dewatering shall be undertaken except in accordance with details to be submitted to and approved in writing by the mineral planning authority prior to the commencement of dewatering. Reason: To prevent derogation of existing domestic and groundwater sources due to the lowering of groundwater levels by dewatering. Details of the type of pumping system to be used on site, and the location of any pumping equipment, shall be submitted for approval in writing by the mineral planning authority within 6 months of the date of this permission. Reason: To protect the amenities of adjoining residents.