11/3065C - Land to the South of Middlewich Road and West of Broad lane, Holmes Chapel - Importing of Waste to Fill a Hollow in the Agricultural Field. Raising the Level of the Hollow will improve the pasture land.
Meeting: 08/02/2012 - Strategic Planning Board (Item 113)
PDF 493 KBTo consider the above planning application.
Minutes:
Mr S Plowman (on behalf of the agent) attended the meeting and addressed the Committee on this matter.
The Committee considered a report regarding the above planning application and a written update.
RESOLVED
That the application be APPROVED subject to the following conditions and the requisite notices being served on additional landowners and no further comments being received:
1. Time limit
2. Development in accordance with the approved plans
3. At least seven days prior written notice of the commencement of development shall be given to the Local Planning Authority
4. All importation of waste and movement and grading of materials on site shall be completed within 12 months of the date of commencement of the development.
5. All site restoration works including removal of the temporary access road shall be completed within 12 months of the completion of the development
6. Prior to the commencement of development, a plan showing the protection of the habitats associated with the adjacent watercourse and a 10m buffer zone thereof, including pre-development measures, shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the LPA. The protection plan shall include an appropriate scale plan showing the area where protective measures will be installed and details of protective measures to avoid impacts during the operational and restoration period
7. Prior to the commencement of development, a scheme for the restoration of the habitats associated with the sloping area of land on the southern portion of the site following the completion of the development shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the LPA. The scheme shall conform to the indicative proposals recommended in the Updated Phase 1 Habitat Survey dated December 2011. The restoration plan shall be implemented in accordance with an agreed schedule of works and completed within 3 months of the completion of the development excluding the other required restoration works
8. Prior to the commencement of development, an updated Badger survey shall be undertaken of the site and all land within 30m of the site boundary. The survey shall be undertaken by a competent and appropriately qualified person and a report of the survey, together with any mitigation proposals required shall be submitted to and agreed in writing with the LPA
9. The stripping, movement, replacement and cultivation of topsoil shall only be carried out when the material to be moved is sufficiently dry and friable to minimise structural damage. No movement of soils shall occur:
I. During the months of October to April inclusive, unless otherwise agreed in writing with the LPA; or
II. When the upper 1200mm of the soil has a moisture content which is equal or greater than that at which soilbecomes plastic, tested in accordance with the ‘worm test’ as set out in BS 1377: 1975 – British Soil Methods Test for Soils for Civic Engineering purposes, or when the topsoil is not sufficiently dry that it cannot be separated from the subsoil without difficulty; or
III. When there are pools of water on the ... view the full minutes text for item 113