Issue - meetings

 

The extension of the existing Wern Cables Sealing End Compound (CSEC) including a new permanent access; a new Minffordd CSEC and Tunnel Head House (THH) with permanent access; the removal of the existing Garth CSEC; installation of new 400 kilovolt (kV) cables to replace redundant 400 kV and 132 kV cables; and other associated infrastructure and ancillary works. 

 

LOCAL MEMBERS:

 

Councillor Nia Jeffreys

Councillor Gwilym Jones

Councillor June Jones

Councillor Meryl Roberts

 

Link to relevant background documents

 

DECISION: To permit

 

1.     Time Limit  

The development must commence within 5 years of the date of the permission.

2.     Approved Schemes        

The development to be carried out in accordance with the approved plans and documents.

3.     Hours of Work:     

Limits construction work hours and manages out-of-hours operations.

4.     Piling

Requires non-percussive piling methods and restricts piling hours. 

5.     Lighting      

Requires approval of a lighting scheme to protect bats and control light spill before operational lighting is installed. 

6.     Enclosures 

Requires approval of colours and finishes for fences, walls, gates and other boundary treatments.

7.     Contamination      

Requires investigation and remediation of any previously unidentified contamination encountered during development.    

8.     Flood Mitigation

Requires approval and implementation of a temporary flood mitigation scheme for construction works.  

9.     Wern Registered Park and Garden     

Requires a mitigation/offsetting scheme for impacts on the Wern Registered Park and Garden. 

10. Habitat Management and Monitoring Plan (HMP)   

Secures habitat compensation, biodiversity net benefit, habitat monitoring and INNS management over the long term.  

 

11. Landscape and Ecological Management Plan (LEMP)     

Secures landscape restoration, planting, habitat management, ecological monitoring and long-term maintenance. 

12. Archaeological Investigation (WSI)    

Requires archaeological investigation and recording before groundworks commence.  

13. Archaeological Reporting         

Requires submission of an archaeological report and archive following fieldwork. 

14. Materials and Waste Management Plan

Secures sustainable management, reuse, recovery and disposal of excavated materials and waste.

15. Public Rights of Way      

Requires management arrangements for public rights of way and National Cycle Route 8 during construction.

16. Construction Method Statement        

Prior to the commencement of any works on site, Construction Method Statements (CMS) and Risk Assessments shall be submitted to the satisfaction of the Overseeing Organisation for the Strategic Roads Network (SRN).

17. Carriageway reinstatement design     

Prior to the commencement of any works on site a carriageway reinstatement design and pavement specification shall be submitted to the satisfaction of the Welsh Government as Overseeing Organisation for the Strategic Roads Network.

18. Welsh Water Assets       

Requires surveys and protection/diversion arrangements for water and sewerage infrastructure. 

19. Surface Water Drainage

Prevents connection of surface water to the public sewer network.

20. Welsh language signs    

Requires development-related signage to be Welsh or bilingual with Welsh given priority. 

21. Minffordd Tunnel Head House CTMP 

Requires a package-specific Construction Traffic Management Plan for the Minffordd Tunnel Head House works. 

22. Minffordd Tunnel Head House CEMP 

Requests a package-specific Construction Environmental Management Plan for the Minffordd Tunnel Head House works. 

23. Minffordd Tunnel Head House HMP   

Requests a package-specific Habitat Management Plan for the Minffordd Tunnel Head House works.

24. CTMPs for the Main Work Packages   

Requires separate Construction Traffic Management Plans for the Wern CSEC, Garth CSEC, Minffordd CSEC and Glaslyn Cables work packages.   

25. CEMPs for the Main Work Packages

Requires separate Construction Environmental Management Plans for the Wern CSEC, Garth CSEC, Minffordd CSEC and Glaslyn Cables work packages.

26. Community facilities restoration plan

Bodawen Playground and Ysgol Eifionydd.

 

Note: Amendment of Dŵr Cymru/Welsh Water conditions in line with the late representations  ...  view the full decision text for item 5.2