Agenda item

APP/13/01346 : Caldy Golf Course, Caldy Golf Club, LINKS HEY ROAD, CALDY, CH48 1NB : Rock armour protection to coastal cliffs - maintenance works to existing erosion protection structure, consisting re-packing of existing rock armour, and importation and placing of new bedstone and rock armour (REVISED ACCESS ARRANGEMENTS RECEIVED, UTILISING CROFT DRIVE).

Minutes:

The Strategic Director for Regeneration and Environment submitted the above application for consideration.

 

On a motion by Councillor Elderton and seconded by Councillor Brightmore it was:

 

Resolved (13:0) That the application be approved subject to the following conditions:

 

1. The development hereby permitted shall be commenced before the expiration of three years from the date of this permission.

 

2. The development works shall only be undertaken in accordance with the timescales set out in Section 4 of the submitted Supporting Information for an Application for Marine Consent (Martin Wright Associates, February 2014). For the avoidance of doubt, the development works shall only be carried out in the months of May, June and July, in the years 2014, 2015 and 2016, with works completed by working one 10-hour shift to suit the daytime low tide period. Notwithstanding the details set out in the submitted Rock Maintenance Work At Caldy Golf Club: Maintenance Licence, this notice shall not be taken to grant planning permission for subsequent maintenance works beyond the period 2014-2016.

 

3. The development works shall only be undertaken in accordance with the pollution prevention measures set out in the following submitted statements: Rock Maintenance Work At Caldy Golf Club: Tidy Beach (07 January 2014), Rock Maintenance Work At Caldy Golf Club: Stockpile Areas (08 January 2014), Rock Maintenance Work At Caldy Golf Club: Oil and Fuel Spillage (09 January 2014).

4. Access to the development works shall only be provided at the point adjacent to Caldy Steps and Thursaston Slipway, as set out in section 6 and Appendix B of the submitted Supporting Information for an Application for Marine Consent (Martin Wright Associates, February 2014). Use of these access points shall only be in full accordance with the measures set out in the submitted Maintenance Work At Caldy Golf Club: Plant and Machine Access to the Beach (09 January 2014). For the avoidance of doubt, the working width including turning areas for vehicles shall at no point exceed 20m from the toe line of the existing rock armour. No materials, plant or machinery shall be stored at any time on the beach.

 

5. All plant and machinery used on the beach shall be equipped with low pressure tires or tracks.

 

6. The Caldy Steps construction access, as set out set out in section 6 and Appendix B of the submitted Supporting Information for an Application for Marine Consent (Martin Wright Associates, February 2014) shall be reinstated in accordance with the details provided no later than 9 months from the completion of the works hereby granted planning permission, unless an alternative timescale has previously been submitted and agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority. For the avoidance of doubt, a geotextile membrane shall be utilised to protect the cliffs from damage during use of the access, and no grass or flower seed, fertilizer or pesticide to be applied to the cliffs.

 

7. The following Great Crested Newt (GCN) Reasonable Avoidance Measures shall be implemented in relation to the Caldy Steps construction access, as set out in section 6 and Appendix B of the submitted Supporting Information for an Application for Marine Consent (Martin Wright Associates, February 2014):

 

·  All contractors shall be made aware of the appearance of GCN, and provided with clear information on the procedure should a GCN be encountered during construction;

·  Clearance of bushes, large stones, timbers and site debris to establish the access route shall only be by hand, to allow checking of the environment for GCN;

·  Plant and machinery access shall be restricted to the access route, as defined in the submitted information.

 

8. The development shall be carried out in accordance with the details contained in drawings numbered: CGC 1/2013 (received 02 December 2013) as amended by supporting informationreceived by the Local Planning Authority on 7th, 8th and 9th January: Maintenance Work At Caldy Golf Club and received February 2014: Supporting Information for an Application for Marine Consent (Martin Wright Associates, February 2014).

 

 

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