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Agenda Item No. the VALE of GLAMORGAN COUNCIL Agenda Item No. THE VALE OF GLAMORGAN COUNCIL PLANNING COMMITTEE : 4 FEBRUARY 2008 REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC REGENERATION 2003/00633/FUL Received on 9 May 2003 White Young Green, 21, Park Place, Cardiff., CF1 3DQ Cemex Ltd., Wenvoe Quarry, Wenvoe, Cardiff. , CF5 6XE Land at Wrinstone Farm, south of Wenvoe Quarry Quarrying of limestone, installation of temporary conveyor link and access road to Wenvoe Quarry. Installation of temporary mobile crusher and plant. Restoration of quarry to nature conservation/landscape amenity use SITE DESCRIPTION 1. This application relates to an area of some 10.5 hectares, partly in agricultural use and partly woodland, forming the western slope of a rounded hill rising from 90 metres to a maximum altitude of 103 metres above Ordnance Datum and lying generally between Wenvoe and Michaelston le Pit. Four fields on the broad summit and western slope of the hill form the majority of the site and are flanked by areas of woodland, some of which is ancient woodland and some of which was planted as a screening belt by the applicants in the 1990s. The north side of the hill falls to the narrow valley of Cwm Slade, which separates the site from a larger hill to the north that is now largely occupied by Wenvoe Quarry. 2. Wenvoe Quarry is a major regional producer of aggregates, ready-mixed concrete and coated roadstone. The main quarry bowl excavated within the hill described above is connected to the quarry processing plant in the former Alps Quarry to the west by a tunnel through the ridge, with direct access from Alps Quarry to the A4050 and thence to Culverhouse Cross and the wider road network via a purpose-built access road which also serves the Council’s Alps Depot. The quarry is some 6 km to the north of Barry and a similar distance from the centre of Cardiff. The closest settlements to the quarry are Wenvoe, some 1.4 km to the south west, and Michaelston le Pit. 1.6 km to the south east, but numerous individual dwellings are located closer to the existing quarry and/or the application site, notably at Cwrt yr Ala. 3. The existing planning permissions for quarrying at Wenvoe permit the extraction of up to 1 million tonnes of stone per year, although that level of production has not been achieved since 1999. Reserves in the existing site were estimated by the applicants as 4.76 million tonnes at 1 January 2007 (source: Regional Aggregates Working Party annual survey 2006) and are likely to be just over 4 million tonnes at the end of 2007, sufficient for under six years’ production if 2004 to 2006 average output is maintained, or four years at the maximum permitted level. P.1 4. From 2001 to 2003 between 33% and 40% of total production was used for ‘added-value’ products (coated roadstone and concrete), with the remainder being used primarily for uncoated roadstone, general aggregates and fill, but this proportion fell to 31% in 2006 (surveys for intervening years were incomplete) (source: Regional Aggregates Working Party annual surveys 2001-2006). 5. The part of the site currently in agricultural use is of Grade 4 quality, whilst large parts of the woodland through which a conveyor linking the site to the existing Wenvoe Quarry is proposed to run, and the hedgerows crossing and bounding the extraction area, are potentially suitable habitat for dormice and bats both European Protected Species. Evidence of dormice and bat activity has been observed in Coed y Cymdda and Cwm Slade, which fall within the application site boundary. The applicants conclude (para 2.5.3 of the Environmental Statement) and it is accepted that dormice occur throughout most of the mature woodland surrounding the site. 6. The proposed extraction area (but not the line of the conveyor) forms the majority of an area allocated for mineral extraction under Policy MIN 2 (Release of New Limestone Reserves) of the Vale of Glamorgan Adopted Unitary Development Plan 1996-2011. The line of the conveyor and haul road, indicated as being the means to connect the existing quarry to the proposed extension is not allocated or safeguarded under any of the Policies of the Unitary Development Plan. DESCRIPTION OF DEVELOPMENT 7. This is a full application for the quarrying of Carboniferous limestone in 8.65 ha. of the application site, with a conveyor and haul road link across Cwm Slade and through Wenvoe Quarry to link with the existing processing plant in Alps Quarry. The application requests a continuation of the current maximum permitted output of 1 million tonnes per year. A full description of the various phases of the development is given in the body of the report. 8. The application is accompanied by an Environmental Statement (4 volumes plus eight supplementary reports), which is retained in the Department for Members’ inspection on request. PLANNING HISTORY 9. There is no planning application history on the application site, but there is an extensive history on the existing Wenvoe Quarry site. Apart from numerous incidental permissions for items of quarry plant, amendments to conditions etc., the major mineral extraction permissions are: Cardiff City (Western Area) Planning Scheme - Use of land for the purpose of quarrying. Approved under the Interim Development Order procedure 15 March 1948. P5/Z/317 - Extension of quarry face. Approved 10 August 1955. CR. 7573 - Extensions to quarry face. Approved 4 May 1962. P.2 0475 - Extraction of limestone by extension of existing quarry. Approved 25 May 1979. 1520 - Extraction of limestone to provide a stable quarry face. Approved 19 September 1983. 2684 - Quarrying of Carboniferous limestone. Approved 26 October 1989. 3336 - Registration of Interim Development Order permission as required by the Planning and Compensation Act 1991. Registered 14 April 1992. 3571 - Deepening and minor extension of the quarry and an increase of maximum production to 1 million tonnes per annum. Approved 28 March 1996. This permission consolidated the earlier consents and resulted in a net reduction in the area where extraction is permitted. 99/00957/FUL - Two small lateral extensions to quarry. Approved 13 April 2000. 10. Working of the quarry is currently controlled by the terms of a Section 106 Legal Agreement entered into at the same time as the granting of planning permission ref. 3571 in 1996, which redefined the area within which mineral extraction may take place. CONSULTATIONS 11. Wenvoe Community Council – Support the proposal ‘provided the quarry is infilled with absolute minimum damage to Cwm Slade and full restoration when quarrying is completed. This is to be the limit of expansion’. 12. In two further letters they advise that in the absence of technical expertise the determination of the application should be left to the Vale of Glamorgan Council, and in a fourth letter following re-consultation on the latest additional information submitted in October 2007 they advised that they have resolved to note the application. 13. Their first three letters are attached as Appendices 1-3. 14. Michaelston Community Council – Object in a series of letters on the grounds that: (a) Inadequate consultation was carried out on the change in designation of the site in the Unitary Development Plan from Policy MIN 3 to MIN 2. (b) The proposal should be considered as a new quarry and not as an extension. (c) The projected life of the quarry falls far short of the Vale’s 20-year minimum life policy. (d) The proposed cutting and woodland clearance for a conveyor across Cwm Slade would be visually very intrusive and in any case is not shown on the Unitary Development Plan map. P.3 (e) The proposed cutting and woodland clearance would destroy ancient woodland and the habitat of several species of fauna protected by EU Regulations. (f) There would be an unacceptable impact on wildlife, particularly through pollution of the Wrinstone Brook. (g) No alternative quarry sites have been considered. (h) The proposed restoration strategy is inadequate. (i) The noise surveys as presented in the EIA are inadequate and noise levels in the Cwrt yr Ala basin would be intrusive and damaging to the quality of life of residents. (j) Blasting vibration levels would be worse than from the existing quarry. (k) Dust problems would be exacerbated. (l) The application fulfils only one of the five key principles set out in Section 6.2 of Mineral Planning Policy Wales. (m) Methods of monitoring noise, dust and waste water are not stated. (n) The Vale Council lacks the resources to properly monitor the operation. (o) There would not be sufficient benefit to the community as a whole to justify the loss of amenity to nearby residents and visitors to the area. 15. Separately, the Community Council have set out in detail their particular concerns regarding the hydrogeological aspects of the proposal. Copies of their ten letters are attached as Appendices 4-13. In addition, a letter from the Community Council to the Countryside Council for Wales, which has been copied to this Council and which raises additional concerns on ecological grounds, is attached as Appendix 14. 16. In a final letter received in November 2007, the Community Council reiterate their concerns and in addition to the comments above consider that the applicants’ Taffs Well Quarry is a suitable alternative to this site in every respect. That letter is attached as Appendix 77. 17. Environment Agency – Have given detailed comments on the hydrogeological and drainage aspects of the proposal, and have had particular regard to two additional documents (‘Water Balance for Wrinstone Farm, near Wenvoe Quarry, Cardiff’ (January 2005) and ‘Supplementary Hydrogeological Information: Wrinstone Farm’ (April 2005)), prepared at their request by the applicants.
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