Decision status: Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
To delegate powers to the Assistant Head of the Environment Department
to approve the application, with conditions relating to the following:
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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.
Publication date: 24/06/2024
Date of decision: 24/06/2024
Decided at meeting: 24/06/2024 - Planning Committee
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