Decision status: Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
To delegate powers to
the Assistant Head of Department to approve the application, subject to the
following amendment to Condition 1 of planning permission C16/0816/34/MW to
extend the lifespan of minerals operations involving the operation of three
ancillary silting lagoons and associated works for an additional four-year
period:
Extraction of
minerals shall cease by 31 December 2024 by which time all plant and machinery
shall have been removed from the site; restoration shall be completed by 31
December 2025.
Consultation response
from Natural Resources Wales attached to the decision notice, advising that
they should be contacted direct in respect of the specific environmental and
operational controls and the provision of utility within their remit.
Planning conditions
as existing in relation to the following regulatory controls;
• Duration of work,
• Restriction
on permitted development rights, buildings, structures, erections, private,
floodlighting and fences,
• Mitigation
for the potential impacts on springs to the north of the extraction area,
• Mitigation for local biodiversity,
Badgers, breeding birds and reptiles,
• Permitted operations and Compliance
with the submitted Details/Plans,
• Hours of Working,
• Safeguarding Public Rights of Way,
• Soil handling and husbandry,
• Drainage, measures to prevent the
pollution of local water courses,
• Restore to mixed agricultural use and
nature conservation,
• Reinstatement of field boundaries,
• Micro-adjustment
of restoration levels to ensure a flow of water into the wetland north of the
application area,
• Archaeological mitigation and
recording,
• After-care measures for agricultural
use and biodiversity management,
• Dust
controls and noise limitations the same as existing but also, plant machinery
at the working face to be fitted with white noise alarms.
Publication date: 12/04/2021
Date of decision: 12/04/2021
Decided at meeting: 12/04/2021 - Planning Committee
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