Decision details

DECISION:

To delegate powers to the Assistant Head of the Environment Department to approve the application, with conditions relating to the following:

·       The work to come to an end on 31/12/2048, restore the site by 31/12/2049.

·       Permitted activities and compliance with the submitted drawing / details / plans / information.

·       Mark the boundary of the site and mineral extraction zones and tipping areas. 

·       Revoke GPDO Part 19 & 21 rights for fixed plant or machinery, buildings and structures and mineral waste.

·        15,000 tonnes per annum export limit.     

·        Exported material restricted to existing public highway.           

·        Tipping operations to be directed towards final landform.        

·        Updated tipping capacity.   

·        Control of noise limitations.           

·        Restrict blasting 07:00 to 20:00 Monday to Saturday. No blasting on Sundays, bank holidays or public holidays.

·        Peak particle velocity restricted to 50mm/s for 95% of overburden blasts over a three-month period and not exceed 60mm/s at any time.”         

·        Peak particle velocity must be measured at the closest point to the blast site within the shaded area shown in Drawing Reference WCYBG2312 Drawing No.10

·        Monitoring of blasting operations to record peak particle velocity.     

·        Five yearly reviews of operations.

·        Submit the first report within 12 months.

·        Detailed Restoration Plan.

·        Phased/progressive restoration works.    

·        5-year aftercare/monitoring.           

·        Scheme of landform remodelling shall be applied to North Pole Quarry benches and associated faces as indicated on plans for creation of stable landform and features to match surrounding rock buttresses and scree. 

·        Following cessation of works, clearance of quarry plant/machinery/materials/equipment to be cleared and site to be left in clean/tidy condition, quarry benches prepared, treated and planted with flora of local provenances, haul roads to be removed.  

·        Restrict access of livestock to restored areas.

·        No plant or machinery to be operated without appropriate and properly maintained sound deadening screens, silencers etc.    

·        All vehicles transporting raw material or waste shall be operated in a manner not to generate excessive noise. 

·        No operations to cause raising of fugitive dust and all areas traversed by vehicles to be watered down.   

·        Removal of vegetation, structural repair or demolition of buildings and working of previously stripped/quarried/tipped areas shall be undertaken outside of nesting season for the protection of nesting birds. ⁠Qualified ecologist

·        No operations to be undertaken on surface without stripping and storage of topsoils, subsoils, and peat.   

·        Topsoils and subsoils to be re-used as soon as possible (In restoration).           

·        Topsoils to be stored in mounds not exceeding 2m in height. 

·        ⁠Historic building recording of the art storage facilities and Written Scheme of Investigation.

·        Monitoring and eradication plan of non-native/invasive species.