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Revised and Updated Ecological Management Plan LONG DROWPITS INERT LANDFILL (PHASES 2 AND 3) REVISED AND UPDATED ECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT PLAN September 2018 Bioscan Report No. E1297R5/V4/2018 COMMISSIONED BY Barton Plant Cranford Road Burton Latimer Kettering Northamptonshire NN15 5TB LONG DROWPITS INERT LANDFILL (PHASES 2 AND 3) REVISED AND UPDATED ECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR SUBMISSION WITH EXTENSION OF TIME APPLICATION September 2018 Bioscan Report No. E1297R5/V4/2018 BIOSCAN (UK) Ltd The Old Parlour Little Baldon Farm Little Baldon Oxford OX44 9PU Tel: (01865) 341321 Fax: (01865) 343674 E-mail: [email protected] Long Drowpits Inert Landfill: Revised Phase 2 and 3 Restoration and Mitigation Strategy to accompany extension of time application CONTENTS 1 BACKGROUND ................................................................................................................................... 4 1.1 Planning context ....................................................................................................................... 4 1.2 Purpose of this document .......................................................................................................... 5 2 INVERTEBRATE SURVEY ............................................................................................................... 6 2.1 Methods .................................................................................................................................... 6 2.2 Results ....................................................................................................................................... 6 Legally Protected Species ......................................................................................................... 7 UK Biodiversity Action Plan Priority Species .......................................................................... 7 Red Data Book Species ............................................................................................................. 7 Nationally Scarce Species ......................................................................................................... 8 Nationally Local Species .......................................................................................................... 8 2.3 Evaluation ................................................................................................................................. 9 3 RESTORATION– PROGRESS TO DATE ...................................................................................... 10 3.1 Progress into Phase 3 .............................................................................................................. 10 3.2 Current position ...................................................................................................................... 10 3.3 Timescales .............................................................................................................................. 15 4 RESTORATION OBJECTIVES AND GUIDING PRINCIPLES ................................................. 16 5 PROTECTED SPECIES MITIGATION REQUIREMENTS ........................................................ 18 5.1 Great crested newts and reptiles .............................................................................................. 18 5.2 Other ....................................................................................................................................... 19 6 RESTORATION PROPOSALS – SEQUENCING ......................................................................... 20 7 POST-RESTORATION AFTERCARE AND MANAGEMENT ................................................... 23 7.1 Overall Habitat Composition .................................................................................................. 23 7.2 Grasslands ............................................................................................................................... 23 7.3 Open woodland and scrub ....................................................................................................... 24 7.4 Dense woodland / forestry ...................................................................................................... 24 7.5 Ponds ....................................................................................................................................... 25 7.6 Hedgerow ................................................................................................................................ 25 7.7 Ditches .................................................................................................................................... 25 TABLES Table 1. Nationally Local invertebrate species recorded during May/June 2010. ........................... 8 Table 2. Key stages in the restoration and mitigation scheme. ........................................................ 20 Bioscan UK Limited E1297R5 2 Long Drowpits Inert Landfill: Revised Phase 2 and 3 Restoration and Mitigation Strategy to accompany extension of time application Table 3a. Long Drowpits Landfill Site Restoration – Principal Aftercare and Management Tasks– Years 1-5 ... …………………………………………………………………………………..26 Table 3b. Long Drowpits Landfill Site Restoration – Principal Aftercare and Management Tasks– Years 6-10…………………………………………………………………………….……..26 FIGURES Figure 1. Phase 2 and Phase 3 Areas Figure 2. Protected Species Mitigation Measures Figure 3. Restoration Sequence: Phase 2 and preparation of Phase 3.1 Figure 3a. (Adjusted) Restoration Sequence: Landfill Phase 2 into 3.1 Figure 4. (Adjusted) Restoration Sequence: Landfill Phase 3.1 Figure 5. Restoration Sequence: Landfill Phase 3.2 Figure 6. Restoration Sequence: Landfill Phase 3.3 Figure 7. Restoration Sequence: Restoration Phase 3.3 Figure 8. (Adjusted) Final Restoration and Management Compartments APPENDICES APPENDIX 1. Terrestrial invertebrate species recorded in 2010 APPENDIX 2. - Invertebrate status codes APPENDIX 3. - Invertebrates associated with former ironstone quarry sites APPENDIX 4 – Summary of Licensed Great Crested Newt and Reptile Trapping Actions 2012-2018 APPENDIX 5. Results of botanical survey of translocated Phase 3.1 material July 2018 Bioscan UK Limited E1297R5 3 Long Drowpits Inert Landfill: Revised Phase 2 and 3 Restoration and Mitigation Strategy to accompany extension of time application 1 BACKGROUND 1.1 Planning context 1.1.1 Barton Plant operate an inert landfill facility at the Boughton Estate, near Kettering, Northamptonshire (approximate site centre SP878814) pursuant to planning permissions 12/00068/WASVOC, 08/00081/WAS and 08/00082/WAS. 1.1.2 The permissions cover the linked infilling and restoration of a worked out ironstone gullet partially restored in the past to a shallow east-west type valley landform. The concave void space created is being infilled with inert materials and restored to convex profile, working from west to east. Phase 1 was completed previously and is not relevant to the current permissions. Final restoration of the infilled Phase 2 area is being achieved in stages using materials derived from advance preparation of the westernmost Phase 3 extension (Phase 3.1) prior to landfilling there. The extent of the Phase 2 and Phase 3 areas of the site is shown at Figure 1. 1.1.3 In 2010, an Ecological Management Plan (EMP) was submitted to the Waste Planning Authority pursuant to condition 13 of permission 08/00082/WAS, and subsequently approved. The EMP covered restoration and mitigation requirements for both the Phase 2 and Phase 3 areas. It also set out strategies to mitigate for possible effects on protected great crested newts and common reptile species (principally common lizard). These measures were subsequently put into practice over the course of 2012 and since. The works in respect of great crested newts, and the ongoing measures to prevent them coming into conflict with the operational activities, have been carried out under the terms of a derogation licence number EPSM 2011-3359(D) issued by Natural England, and subsequent versions of this licence (current ref 2017-32664-EPS-MIT). Exclusion fencing maintains the Phase 2 and Phase 3 areas clear of any constraint imposed by these protected species. 1.1.4 In 2013 and 2014, revisions to the EMP were submitted to and ultimately approved by the Waste Planning Authority (WPA) to address changes brought about by the slowing of landfilling operations during the economic downturn and the resultant need to extend the timetable for completion of restoration. 1.1.5 Progress on infilling and restoration has continued to be retarded by ongoing economic factors and a further application is therefore being made to vary the conditions pertaining to timescales for completion of restoration of Phases 2 and 3 and specifically to extend the end date from December 2019 to the end of 2024. 1.1.6 Northants County Council, as Waste Planning Authority, have requested that a revised EMP be submitted with the application to reflect this change in timescale, and also to reflect the position on the ground viz a viz progress on restoration to date. Bioscan UK Limited E1297R5 4 Long Drowpits Inert Landfill: Revised Phase 2 and 3 Restoration and Mitigation Strategy to accompany extension of time application 1.2 Purpose of this document 1.2.1 As per previous iterations, this document contains the following elements: i) A restoration strategy, updated to report on works completed and to cover the remaining unrestored and unworked parts of the Phase 2 and Phase 3 areas, including carrying forward the previously approved scheme
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