Monday 2 October 2017

LCC Approval of Commercial Waste at Anaerobic Digestor Plant Holdingham


The text of the LCC response to the use of Commercial Waste and the Anaerobic site is as follows:


2. The development hereby permitted shall be retained and operated in accordance with the following documents and plans unless otherwise modified by the conditions attached to this planning permission.  The approved are as follows: 
 
Documents 
 
 Application Form date stamped received 10 May 2017; 
 Report No: 13-003/R020 v1 – 'Planning Application Supporting Information' date stamped received 10 May 2017; and as amended by 
 'Further information supplemental to Report No: 13/003/R020 v1' date stamped received 6 July 2017; 
 Report No: 13-003/R021 – 'Odour Management Plan' date stamped received  6 July 2017;
  Report No: 13-003/R022 – 'Summary of Planning Information by Email' date stamped received 30 August 2017;
  Report No: 13-003/R012 – 'Pest Management Plan' date stamped received  8 June 2017; 
 Project No: 009502 – 'Outdoor Lighting Report' date stamped received 8 June 2017; 
 Job No: 5355 Issue 03 – 'Drainage Strategy Proposed Biogas Plant' date stamped received 8 June 2017; 
 Application 14/0080/FUL – 'Condition 16 (Bat and Bird Boxes)' date stamped received 8 June 2017; 
 Application 14/0080/FUL – 'Condition 17 (Landscape Planting)' date stamped received 8 June 2017;  
 Application 14/0080/FUL – 'Condition 19 (Perimeter Security Fencing)'; and
  Report No: 13-003/R002 – 'Anaerobic Digestion Facility Noise Impact Assessment' date stamped received 19 September 2017. 
 
Drawings 
 
 No: 13-003-P-020 – 'Location Plan' date stamped received 10 May 2017; 
 No: 1.1 – 'Site Plan' date stamped received 10 May 2017;  No: JN1808-LDS-SK007-A – 'Sustrans Crossing General Details' date stamp received 8 June 2017; 
 No: JN1808-LDS-SK008-B – 'Sustrans Crossing Signs and Road Markings' date stamp received 8 June 2017; 
 No: JN1808-LDS-SK007-A – 'Sustrans Crossing General Details' date stamp received 8 June 2017; 
 No: 14/0080/FUL – 'Lighting column layout drawing' date stamped received  8 June 2017; and 
 No: 2054-D-01 RevD – 'Proposed lighting and luminance layout' date stamped received 8 June 2017. 
 
3. The site is permitted to receive the following feedstocks only: 
 
Waste 
 Wheat Syrup; 
 Glycerol; 
 Poultry Litter;  Waste Vegetables; and 

 
Crops 
 Maize silage;  Grass silage; and  Sugar Beet. 
 
4. All waste listed in condition 3 shall be incorporated into the Anaerobic Digester Vessel on the day of delivery and no waste shall be stored on site. 
 
5. The total tonnage of feedstock processed at the application site shall not exceed 70,000 tonnes per annum.  The waste feedstock shall not exceed 34,300 tonnes per annum.  All feedstock brought to the site shall be weighed at the site’s weighbridge.  The weighbridge records shall be retained for at least two years and be available for inspection by the Waste Planning Authority upon request. 
 
6. All crops stored in the silage clamps shall not exceed 4 metres in height. 
 
7. No crops shall be stored outside at any time other than within the silage clamps. 
 
8. Notwithstanding the detail contained in the approved Report No: 13-003/R021 – 'Odour Management Plan' date stamped received 6 July 2017.  The Odour Management Plan shall be implemented in full and maintained for the duration of the development.  The Odour Monitoring Reports and Odour Complaints Reports shall be retained for two years and shall be available for inspection at the request of the Waste Planning Authority. 
 
9. The digestate lagoon cover shall be retained and maintained for the duration of the development. 
 
10. Any trees, plants or grassed areas planted in accordance with the approved scheme Application 14/0080/FUL – 'Condition 17 (Landscape Planting)' date stamped received 8 June 2017, which within a period of seven years from the date of planting die, are removed or become seriously damaged or diseased shall be replaced in the next planting season with others of similar size, and species and quality, unless the local planning authority gives written consent to any variation. 
 
11. The development hereby permitted shall be retained in accordance with the following construction materials details which are shown on the approved plans, which in the case of the primary and secondary digester tanks shall be RAL 9006 (white aluminium) for the tank sides and RAL 7005 (mouse grey) for the roof. 
 
12. The means of connection from the AD plant to the National Grid shall be by underground cable. 
 
13. Notwithstanding the detail contained in the approved Report No: 13-003/R002 'Anaerobic Digestion Facility Noise Impact Assessment' date stamp received 19 September 2017, the level of noise arising from the operations on the site at the locations identified in Table 21 shall not exceed a rating level of Average Background Noise Level (dB LA90) +5 dB as identified in Table 21. 

  

The reasons for the conditions are:- 
 
1. To comply with Section 91 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. 
 
2. To ensure that the development is carried out in an acceptable manner and for avoidance of doubt as to the development that is permitted. 
 
3 – 5 To correspond with the source and volume of waste feedstock materials for which planning permission was applied and to limit the scale of the operations in the interest of the amenity of the area. 
 
6 – 13 In the interests of general and visual amenity. 
 
 
Informative 
 
Attention is drawn to: 
 
(i) Environment Agency - Environmental Permitting – Letter Reference AN/2017/125777/02-L01 dated 24 July 2017, attached to the Decision Notice; and 
 
(ii) In dealing with this application the Waste Planning Authority has worked with the applicant in a positive and proactive manner by processing the application efficiently so as to prevent any unnecessary delay.  This approach ensures the application is handled in a positive way to foster the delivery of sustainable development and is consistent with the requirements of paragraphs 186 and 187 of the National Planning Policy Framework. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 




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