Aerospace Business Park Statement in Support of the Planning Application
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St Athan Aerospace Business Park Statement in support of the planning application St Athan Aerospace Business Park Statement in support of the planning application incorporating Design and access statement May 2009 Department for the Economy and Transport Welsh Assembly Government QED Centre Main Avenue Treforest Industrial Estate Trefforest Rhondda Cynon Taf CF37 5YR Study team This statement has been prepared by a team comprising: Welsh Assembly Government Department for the Economy and Transport QED Centre, Main Avenue, Treforest Industrial Estate, Trefforest CF37 5YR WYG Planning & Design 21 Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3DQ Atkins Woodcote Grove, Ashley Road, Epsom, Surrey KT18 5BW Longcross Court, 47 Newport Road, Cardiff CF24 0AD Capita Symonds Tyˆˆ Gwent, Lake View, Llantarnam Park, Cwmbran, Torfaen NP44 3HR Kernon Countryside Consultants Brook Cottage, Purton Stoke, Swindon, Wiltshire SN5 4JE Mott MacDonald St Anne House, 20-26 Wellesley Road, Croydon, Surrey CR9 2UL Parsons Brinckerhoff 29 Cathedral Road, Cardiff CF11 9HA Walker Beak Mason Steepleton Lodge Barn, East Haddon, Northamptonshire NN6 8DU Study team 3 The site as existing 23 Contents Table of contents Location List of illustrations Land ownership Glossary of abbreviations Current uses Physical factors 1 Introduction 11 • Geology The applicant • Hydrogeology The agent • Ground conditions and Description of the proposed development contamination Type of planning application • Topography The application site • Built environment Planning application drawings Environmental factors Purpose of report • Cultural heritage Other supporting documents • Ecology • Landscape and trees 2 Background to and need for the 15 • Visual amenity development Infrastructure International and UK perspective • Airfi eld operation Aerospace in Wales • Runway The Welsh Assembly Government’s • Access strategy for the aerospace industry • Foul sewerage Demand studies • Surface water drainage • Key fi ndings • Utilities • Defi nition of MRO Planning designations • Establishing the right strategy for Constraints and opportunities the ABP • Job opportunities 4 The proposal 35 Enquiry-based evidence of demand Overall concept The St Athan project The master plan Relationship to the Defence Technical College Accommodation for businesses Accessing the site • The Welsh Assembly Government’s • Elevational treatment • Existing access commitment to public art Landscape design • The requirement for a new access Drainage strategy • Landscape objectives • Access proposals • Foul sewerage • Landscape strategy • Basic principles • Surface water drainage • Movement framework • Range of options considered • Land drainage • Mitigation • Consideration of options: access Utilities • Planting proposals from the north • Electricity • Consideration of options: access • Gas 7 Planning policy framework 65 from the south • Potable water Introduction • Consideration of options: access • Telecommunications The current development plan from the east Phasing The national spatial plan • Consideration of options: access • Phase 1: 2014 The area development brief from the west • Phase 2: 2020 The emerging development plan • Conclusion • Phase 3: 2028 National planning policy guidance Highway proposals Employment potential Supplementary planning guidance • Northern Access Road Conclusion • Southern Access Road 5 Specialist elements of the proposal 53 • Highway improvement works The runway 8 Conclusion 73 Landscape Air Traffi c Control tower and fi re station Environmental mitigation and enhancement Engine running facility Appendices • Ecology Fuel store 1 Access statement • Noise Compass swing 2 Schedule of proposed building sizes Public art Fire training 3 Development schedules • A strategy for public art Aerospace Business Park administration 4 Energy considerations • Potential locations for public art 5 Drawings • Proposed mechanism for delivering 6 Design guidance 57 public art Building design • The Vale of Glamorgan Council’s • Aspiration commitment to public art • Hangars The following drawings are contained in Appendix 5 List of illustrations of this report: 01 Site location 02 Application boundary 03 Application boundary 04 Site context: existing 05 Site context: proposed 06 Agricultural land classifi cation 07 Land-form 08 Built environment appraisal 09 Landscape context 10 Planning designations 11 Aeronautical constraints 12 ABP site identifi cation 13 Development framework 14 Master plan 15 ABP North master plan 16 ABP South master plan 17 Tree appraisal 18 Landscape strategy 19 Building reuse phasing 20 Principal buildings to be demolished 21 Master plan phase 1 22 Master plan phase 2 23 Master plan phase 3 24 Site section. ABP Aerospace Business Park LRTT Lufthansa Resource Technical Training Glossary of AGL Aeronautical Ground Lighting MoD Ministry of Defence ALC Agricultural land classifi cation MRO Maintenance, repair and overhaul abbreviations ASDA Accelerate-Stop Distance Available NDT Non-destructive testing ASHP Air source heat pump NAR Northern Access Road ATC Air Traffi c Control ODP Ozone depletion potential ATM Air Traffi c Management PAPI Precision Approach Path Indicator BREEAM BRE Environmental Assessment Method PPW Planning Policy Wales CAA Civil Aviation Authority PV Photovoltaic CAGR Compounded annual growth rate PV-T Hybrid photovoltaic-thermal CCW Countryside Council for Wales RESA Runway End Safety Area CGA Clear and Graded Area RFFS Rescue and Fire Fighting Services CHP Combined heat and power ROC Renewable Obligation Certifi cate DARA (The former) Defence Aviation Repair SAR Southern Access Road Agency SFA Service families’ accommodation DCWW Dwrˆ Cymru Welsh Water SLA Special Landscape Area DDA Disability Discrimination Acts 1995 & 2005 SHW Solar hot water DSG Defence Support Group SPG Supplementary planning guidance DTC Defence Technical College SuDS Sustainable drainage systems DHW Domestic hot water TAN Technical Advice Note EAW Environment Agency Wales TODA Take-off Distance Available EFW Energy-from-waste TORA Take-off Run Available FOD Foreign Objects and Debris UAV Unmanned air vehicle FSTA Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft UCAV Unmanned combat air vehicle GSHP Ground source heat pump UDP Unitary Development Plan GWP Global-warming potential UWAS University of Wales Air Squadron ICAO International Civil Aviation Organisation VGS Volunteer Gliding School ILS Instrument Landing System WDA (The former) Welsh Development Agency LDA Landing Distance Available WSHP Water source heat pump LDP Local Development Plan WSP Wales Spatial Plan Introduction The applicant 1 101 The applicant is the Welsh Ministers. 102 The Welsh Ministers, through their Department for the Economy and Trans- port, deliver economic and transport agendas for Wales. The objectives of the Minis- ter for the Economy and Transport, being one of the Welsh Ministers, are: • to create jobs across Wales; • to stimulate enterprise and growth; • to enhance skills for jobs. 103 In respect of these objectives the relevant priorities of the Minister are: • to support job creation and help individuals tackle barriers to participation in the world of work; • to implement a labour market strategy with a long term goal of full employment at a rate of 80%; • to invest in regenerating communities and stimulating economic growth across the whole of Wales; • to help businesses to start-up and grow by supporting entrepreneurship, innovation, inward investment, trade and skills, ensuring an adequate supply of high quality sites and premises to meet the demands of business; • to maintain and enhance the global profi le of Welsh business, to attract inward investment to Wales and to secure export business by promoting international trade for Welsh companies. 104 The Welsh Development Agency (WDA) was established by the Welsh Development Agency Act 1975 (as amended) and for thirty years its functions included furthering the economic development of Wales. Those functions were trans- ferred to the National Assembly for Wales and subsequently to the Welsh Ministers. 12 Before its abolition in 2006, the WDA was actively involved in progressing the pro- • an improvement of the B4265 at Gileston to Old Mill, just east of St Athan; and posals for redevelopment at St Athan, the location of which is shown on Figure 01. • an improvement of the existing A4226/B4266 junction at Waycock Cross on the north-western edge of Barry. The agent These and other aspects of the proposed development are described in Chapter 3 of 105 The applicant’s agent for the planning application is: this report. STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF THE PLANNING APPLICATION WYG Planning & Design Type of planning application 21 Park Place Cardiff 108 The application is principally for outline planning permission, but also seeks CF10 3DQ detailed planning permission for certain of the proposed highway and highway im- provement works. Those for which detailed permission is sought as part of this ap- Tel: 029 2072 9000. plication are: Aerospace Business Park • the Northern Access Road (NAR); and Description of the proposed development St Athan • the proposed improvement at Gileston to Old Mill. 106 The proposed development is described as follows: 109 Although the application is accompanied by substantial illustrative and ex- “Development at and adjoining the aerospace business park, including: the erection planative materials, all details (other than the highway works referred to above) are of new and replacement buildings, airfi eld operational facilities and structures; the reserved for subsequent