Planning Application Details

The site shall be restored in accordance with the proposals shown in approved plan 007/P/27A within 24 months from the date that this permission is issued unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Reason: To ensure that the site and adjoining land is suitably restored in the interests of visual amenity. The development shall be carried out strictly in accordance with the description of the development, plans and specifications contained in the application except as modified by conditions of this permission and unless otherwise agreed by the Local Planning Authority in writing. Reason: For the avoidance of doubt and to ensure that the development is carried out in accordance with the approved details, to ensure a suitable form of development. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 (or any Order amending, replacing or re-enacting that Order) no fixed plant or machinery, building, strutures and erections, or private ways shall be erected within the curtilage of the site without the prior approval of the Local Planning Authority in writing. Reason: To protect the amenities of the area. From the date of this permission no materials other than clay, clean, uncontaminated inert soils and subsoils to be used for restoration purposes only shall be imported to, or deposited within, the site area edged in red as shown on approved plan no 007/P/21/C. Reason: In the interests of the amenities of the local area and to prevent pollution of the water environment. No lorries involved with the development shall enter or leave the site and no plant or machinery shall be operated, except between 0700 hours and 1800 hours Mondays to Fridays and between 0700 hours and 1300 hours on Saturdays. No work shall take place at the site on Sundays or recognised public holidays or Saturdays following bank holiday Fridays. Reason: In the interests of the amenities of the local area. Lorries involved with the development shall not enter or depart from the site other than by using the 'new site access' marked on approved plan 007/P/25. Reason: In the interests of highway safety. Details of the layout and construction of the 'new site access' as shown on approved plan 007/P/25 and its reinstatement thereafter for agricultural access shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority before operations permitted by this approval. Reason: To ensure the access is constructed with due regard to highway safety and the local environment. No lorry shall leave the site unless its wheels have been cleaned sufficiently to prevent mud being carried on to the highway. Reason: In the interest of highway safety. No floodlighting shall be erected on the site except in accordance with a scheme first approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Reason: In the interest of visual amenity. No reversing bleepers or other means of warning of reversing vehicles shall be fixed to, or used on, any mobile plant except in accordance with details to be agreed by the Local Planning Authority in writing. Reason: To protect the occupiers of nearby premises from unreasonable noise intrusion. A detailed scheme for the drainage and disposal of surface water shall be submitted to the Local Planning Authority for approval within one month of the date of this permission. The approved scheme shall be implemented within two months of the Local Planning Authority approving it in writing. Reason: To ensure adequate drainage of the site. Trees and shrubs shall be planted in accordance with the approved scheme as shown in approved plan 007/P/27A in the first planting season following restoration. In the event of the failure such trees or shrubs shall be replaced during the five year aftercare period with live specimens of such species at a time and in a number as may be specified by the Local Planning Authority in writing. Reason: To ensure as far as possible the maintenance of the approved planting scheme. The works shall be carried out in accordance with approved plan 007/P/25 within 18 months from the date that this permission is issued unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Reason: To prevent penetration of the cap by rainwater and the potential for pollution of the water environment. The restoration layer above the cap shall comprise a minimum thickness of 0.5 metres of soils and soil making materials being increased to 1 metre in thickness to ensure adequate depth of soils where trees are planted. Reason: To prevent pollution of the cap by rainwater and the potential for pollution of the water environment and also to prevent root penetration of the cap. Handling and cultivation of soil materials shall not take place other than when the soil is dry and friable. No movement of topsoil and subsoil shall occur during the period from October to mid May unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority. No plant or vehicles shall move over the soils other than when the soil is dry and friable. Reason: To minimise structural damage and compaction of the soil and to allow for good quality restoration. All stripped topsoil shall be stored separately and retained on site for use in site restoration, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Reason: To preserve the existing soil resource in the interest of good quality restoration. The chalk pit restoration area (area C on approved plan 0071P/25) shall be restored as shown on approved plan 007/P/27A within eighteen months from the date that this planning permission is issued and maintained in accordance with the approved supplementary information dated 19 March 1999. Reason: To ensure adequate restoration and management of the chalk pit. Aftercare of each phase of restored land shall take place for a period of 5 years in accordance with the approved scheme detailed in the supplementary information dated 19 March 1999 and any further measures agreed to be necessary at the annual site meeting unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Reason: To set relevant aftercare objectives at the appropriate time for bringing the land to the standard required for amenity/ forestry use. A restoration plan showing how Area D as shown on approved plan 007/P/25 is to be restored shall be submitted to the Local Planning Authority for approval by 31 December 2001 or such date as may be agreed by the Local Planning Authority and any approved restoration plan shall be implemented by 31 December 2003 unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Reason: To ensure adequate restoration of the site.