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Land at South Moor Golf Club, the Middles, Stanley, County Durham, DH9 6AE Planning Services COMMITTEE REPORT AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: APPLICATION DETAILS APPLICATION NO: CMA/1/73 FULL APPLICATION DESCRIPTION Erection of two wind turbines of 100m and 110m to tip height and associated contruction compound, access roads and substation NAME OF APPLICANT Regeneco SITE ADDRESS Land at South Moor Golf Club, The Middles, Stanley, County Durham, DH9 6AE ELECTORAL DIVISION Craghead and South Moor CASE OFFICER Ann Rawlinson Senior Planning Officer Tel: 03000 261393 [email protected] DESCRIPTION OF THE SITE AND PROPOSAL The site 1. The application site is located within rough fields approximately 600m to the south of Southmoor Golf Club clubhouse, just south of the golf club greens and north of Wagtail Lane, The Middles, Stanley. The land rises significantly through the golf club greens, the application site then up to Wagtail Lane. West Ousterley (unmade) Byway No. 19 (Stanley) runs through the site. The proposed turbines would be sited to the east and west of this. There are blocks of tree plantations and woodland to the south, east and west of the site. The application site has an area of just over a hectare. 2. The residential settlement of The Middles lies approximately 485m to the northeast of the site, on significantly lower ground. Craghead is approximately 620m to the east of the site and Quaking Houses lies approximately 840m to the northwest, again on lower ground. 3. The application site does not include any area designated for its landscape, ecological or historical value. Further afield there are a number of designated sites of ecological, historic or landscape interest. 4. Land approximately 1.6km to the south of the site is land designated as an Area of High Landscape Value (AHLV) (Newhouse Burn), identified in the DLP as being of district value. Holmside Hall Grade II* listed estate lies approximately 1.1km to the south of the site. 5. There are 5 Local Wildlife Sites within 2km of the site. Ousterley Wood is located directly to the north east of the site. South Stanley Wood, to the north of the site is designated as a Site of Nature Conservation Interest (SNCI) at a distance of approximately 1.2km. 6. Greencroft and Langley Moor Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) is located approximately 400m to the west of the site. The North Pennines Special Protection Area (SPA) is located 15km to the west. The nearest statutory landscape designation is the North Pennines AONB which lies approximately 11.5km to the west. 7. Footpath No. 18 (Stanley Parish) runs across the field to the south west of the site, linking Wagtail Lane with New Acres Road and another runs from the golf club to South Moor Road to the west (Footpath No. 25 Stanley Parish). 8. Directly to the south of Wagtail Lane are the two turbines at Holmside Hall . Langley wind farm (four turbines) is located further south. The proposal 9. Planning permission is sought for the erection of two wind turbines with ancillary development including site accesses and long vehicle turning heads near the base of the turbines, hard standings, a sub station, concrete crane pads and a temporary construction compound. The proposed easterly sited turbine (T2) would have a maximum tip height of 100m and a hub height of 60m. The proposed westerly turbine (T1) would have a maximum tip height of 110m and a hub height of 70m. Both turbines would have a rotor diameter of up to 80m. The proposed wind turbines would have a maximum output of approximately 4MW (2x 2MW) 10. The turbine type would be of a typical modern design incorporating a steel tower and three blades attached to a nacelle housing the generator, gearbox and other operating equipment. The turbines would be light grey/off-white in colour with a low reflectivity finish. 11. The generated electricity of the proposed wind turbines would be utilised by South Moor Golf Club. Excess would be sold to the grid to assist the golf club in going forward to develop, and meet its community aims of promoting participation in golf, especially youth participation, improving facilities training opportunities, development of the course and maintenance. 12. Access to the application site would be taken via a new access point off Wagtail Lane. A construction compound would be sited to the eastern side, just inside the access point. The access track would then fork to provide two tracks to T1 to the west and T2 to the east. A sub station would be located adjacent T2. The details of this could be agreed with the LPA if planning permission was granted. 13. During the construction period various works would be required to facilitate installation of the wind turbines. Works could include: erection of temporary cabins to be used as a site office and welfare facilities for site staff; parking for construction staff, visitors and construction vehicles; and, secure storage for tools, small quantities of fuels and small plant and equipment. Any temporary works to facilitate construction would be reinstated at the end of the construction period. 14. The main construction period is likely to last for several months, from commencement of detailed site investigation, survey and design work, through to the installation and commissioning of the turbine and ending with the removal of any temporary construction works. It is normal practice for a Construction Method Statement to be required through the use of an appropriate planning condition. 15. The proposed development requires the removal of grassland, scrub, hedgerow, plantation woodland and semi-natural woodland to construct the access road, turbine pads and associated work areas. It would be necessary to remove approximately 0.45 hectares of young broadleaved woodland from around T2 and remove a corridor of woody vegetation along the field boundary north of T1 turbine; around 125 linear metres. An additional area of around 0.4 ha of younger woodland would need to be removed to facilitate this turbine. 16. The wind turbines has been designed with an operational life of 25 years. On a day to day basis the turbines would operate automatically, responding by means of anemometry equipment and control systems to changes in wind speed and direction. These systems are designed to ensure the performance of the turbines and control issues such as rotor speed, direction and angle as well as generator temperature. At the end of the operational life of the wind farm, a decision would be taken whether to replace the turbines or decommission them and remove them from the site. Replacement of the wind turbines at this time would require a future planning application. Decommissioning the site would involve the complete removal of the turbines from the site, together with all surface infrastructures. The site would then be reinstated to its original appearance or in accordance with a scheme of works to be agreed with the local planning authority. The exact details of the required decommissioning works are normally agreed through condition if planning permission is granted. 17. The application has been supported by a number of technical documents including: a Design and Access Statement, Environmental Report, Community Involvement Statement, Cultural Heritage Desk-Based Assessment, Residential Amenity- Appraisal of Effects, Airwave Network Interference Assessment, Ecology and Ornithology Assessment, Coal Mining Risk Assessment, Noise Assessment, Shadow Flicker Report, Assessment of Effects on Electromagnetic Interference, and a Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment Report. 18. The application is reported to County Planning Committee as it represents a major development. PLANNING HISTORY 19. Planning permission was approved for the erection of a temporary wind monitoring mast in 2011 to the east of the application site. PLANNING POLICY NATIONAL POLICY 20. The Government has consolidated all planning policy statements, guidance notes and many circulars into a single policy statement, the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), although the majority of supporting annexes to the planning policy statements are retained. The overriding message is that new development that is sustainable should go ahead without delay. It defines the role of planning in achieving sustainable development under three topic headings – economic, social and environmental, each mutually dependant. 21. At the heart of the NPPF is a presumption in favour of sustainable development, which should be seen as a golden thread running through both plan-making and decision-taking. For decision taking the NPPF states that this means approving development proposals that accord with the development plan without delay, and where the development plan is absent, silent or relevant policies are out ‑of ‑date, granting permission unless: any adverse impacts of doing so would significantly and demonstrably outweigh the benefits, when assessed against the policies in the framework taken as a whole; or specific policies in the Framework indicate development should be restricted. 22. In accordance with paragraph 215 of the NPPF, the weight to be attached to relevant saved local plan policy will depend upon the degree of consistency with the NPPF. The greater the consistency, the greater the weight. The relevance of this issue is discussed, where appropriate, in the assessment section of the report below. 23. The presumption in favour of sustainable development set out in the NPPF requires local planning authorities to approach development management decisions positively, utilising twelve ‘core planning principles’ (paragraph 17). The following elements are considered relevant to this proposal: 24. One of the twelve core principles of the NPPF (paragraph 17) supports “the transition to a low carbon future in a changing climate.. and encourages the use of renewable resources (for example, by the development of renewable energy).” 25. The NPPF also states, in paragraph. 98, that “when determining planning applications, local planning authorities should: • Not require applicants for energy development to demonstrate the overall need for renewable or low carbon energy and also recognise that even small scale projects provide a valuable contribution to cutting greenhouse gas emissions..
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