Issue - meetings

Construction of a solar farm with associated access and infrastructure to include substation, inverter stations, cabling, landscaping, CCTV and boundary treatments (pursuant to the variation of conditions 2 and 3 of planning permission 23/00505/VCN to alter site entrance, layout, design and landscaping).

It was proposed by Councillor Martin Gawith and seconded by Councillor Keith Budden:

“That the application be approved subject to the conditions in the Committee Report.”

Upon being put to the vote, 15 Councillors voted in favour of the proposal with none against and no abstentions, whereupon the Chair declared the proposal to have been carried.

Resolved:

That the application be approved subject to the following conditions:

1.    Approved plans – Updated to reflect approved plans list.

2.    Implementation of approved landscaping scheme – Updated to reflect approved details.

3.    Outline surface water management plan.

4.    Work outside bird nesting season.

5.    Construction Traffic Management Plan.

6.    25 year consent and decommissioning scheme.

7.    Cabling details.

8.    Final Sustainable Drainage Strategy.

9.    Survey and repairs of the adopted highway.

10.  Surfacing of access.

11.  Provision of visibility splays.

12.  Invasive species method statements.

13.  Details of materials for substation building.

14.  Operation and Maintenance Plan & Verification Report of Sustainable Drainage System.

15.  BNG proposals and associated Landscape and Biodiversity Management Plan.

16.  Construction Phase Surface Water Management Plan.

17.  Wheel washing facilities.

18.  Implementation of hedgerow planting to mitigate glint and glare.

19.  Employment Skills Plan.

20.  Development in accordance with AIA addendum.

21.  Tree Protection Plan and Arboricultural Method Statement.

22.  Details and installation of new pond.

23.  Zone 1 panel heights.