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Planning Application for a Surface Coal Mining and Restoration Scheme at Bignall End, Staffordshire Planning Consultants PLANNING APPLICATION FOR A SURFACE COAL MINING AND RESTORATION SCHEME AT BIGNALL END, STAFFORDSHIRE NNOONN TTEECCHHNNIICCAALL SSUUMMMMAARRYY FFEEBBRRUUAARRYY 22001144 BLANK Introduction This Non-Technical Summary (NTS) is based on the Environmental Statement (ES) which accompanies a Planning Application for a proposed surface coal mining scheme, located approximately 6 kilometres to the north-west of Newcastle-under-Lyme within Staffordshire. The proposal has the potential to realise up to 450,000 tonnes of mineral consisting of coal and fireclay from the site with the broad aim to return it to agricultural use with an improved landscape that is characteristic of the locality, as well as providing enhanced nature conservation and woodland features that will provide biodiversity and ecological benefits, and greater opportunities for public access over a period of two and a half years. Within this timescale the extraction of coal will be completed within a 15 month period. The site area is 80 hectares in total and coal extraction will take place within an area measuring 29 hectares. In preparing the NTS regard has been taken to the contents of Schedule 4 of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2011. This NTS gives a summary of: the proposed development; the main elements of the proposals that have the potential to impact positively and/or negatively on the environment and local residents; and the potential mitigation measures to prevent, reduce and where possible offset any significant adverse effects on the environment. Consideration of the main alternatives to the proposed development has also been made. This has regard to the environmental assessment work undertaken by UK Coal’s team of consultants and indicates where the assessment work has influenced the ultimate design of the scheme having regard to the potential for environmental effects. The main topic areas for the EIA/ES were established through consultation with Staffordshire County Council and set out within a formal EIA Scoping Opinion issued by the County Council and received on 8th February 2013. The proposal has been assessed and is considered to meet the tests of environmental acceptability. The potential impacts of the proposed operations can be effectively mitigated and controlled to ensure it is acceptable through the imposition of appropriate planning conditions and obligations. The proposal would bring about a number of potential significant benefits which includes meeting a national need for indigenous coal, socio-economic benefits, long term improvements to the landscape character and ecological and biodiversity enhancements. The potential benefits are considered to weigh positively in the planning balance to minimise any potential negative environmental effects. Site and its Surroundings The Great Oak site is located approximately 6 kilometres to the north-west of Newcastle- under-Lyme within Staffordshire. The settlement of Bignall End is located to the south-west of the site. Bignall Hill and Butters Green lie to the south. Red Street is located to the south- east. To the north is the A500 dual carriageway, beyond which lies the settlements of Talke and Talke Pits (to the north east of the site). Historically the area has been subject to both surface and deep coal mining activity with evidence of previous mine shafts still found in proximity to the site dating back over 100 years. The Great Oak site has a varied topography with the highest ground levels being situated to the east – towards the Wedgwood Monument. The Wedgwood Monument has a Schedule II Listing and is at a level of 236 metres AOD (Above Ordnance Datum). The site is predominantly used as agricultural grazing land and is crossed by a number of public rights of way. The Scoping process and the pre-application public consultations have identified a number of potentially sensitive residential receptors around the site, including the properties on the outskirts of Bignall End and Butters Green, the properties off Bignall End Road at Brierly Brook, and isolated properties off Talke Road and Jamage Road, to the north of Red Street. As well as residential properties there are a number of isolated farmstead properties namely Diglake Farm immediately to the south, Woodlands Farm immediately to the north, and Jamage Farm, to the north-east. Site History and Background Newcastle-under-Lyme has a rich history of both deep and surface coal mining, employing many thousands of local people throughout the 19th and 20th Century. As the industry began to decline in the latter half of the twentieth century the collieries in the area began to close, with the final collieries closing in the latter stages of the 1990s. In November 1994, there were three private drift and deep mines (Silverdale, Apdale and Haying Wood) operating in the locality. By 1999 all private and deep mines were closed. Coal mining in the area around Bignall End dates to the late 18th or early 19th century when two main collieries, Diglake (later known as Old Diglake) and Rookery were developed. Both collieries were abandoned by in the late 1800s. The Diglake Colliery disaster occurred on the 14th January 1895 and resulted in the deaths of 77 men and boys although only 5 bodies were ever recovered from the flooded workings. As part of this application, an independent report was commissioned to review the causes and site of the original disaster and consider UK Coal’s in-house assessment of the potential impacts of the proposed development upon the areas of underground workings where the remains of 72 of those killed in the disaster still lie. The proposed surface mining operations have been designed to ensure that there will be no disturbance to the Diglake mine workings or the remains of any of the victims that may lie in those workings. Geology The geology of the site is described in the BGS Technical Report WA/91/01 ‘Stoke-on-Trent: a geological background for planning and development’ and 1:25,000 map of the environmental geology of the Stoke-on-Trent area. A total of 569 air-flush boreholes have been drilled on the site between the 1980s and 2012 to prove the structure, volume and quality of the coal seams, the overburden volumes and define potential fireclay reserves. The results of the drilling show that in the order of 400,000 tonnes of recoverable coal and no more than 50,000 tonnes of fireclay lie within the application area. The Great Oak coal seams typically have very good calorific values and moderate sulphur values. It is anticipated that the site will produce coal to be supplied to a coal fired power station for electricity generation. Coal mining risk assessments addressing the geotechnical, mine water and gas issues surrounding the proposed Great Oak proposals have been undertaken. The findings of that report show that with sufficient mitigation measures and monitoring the risks of the development can be controlled. Description of the Proposed Mining Development The proposed 80 hectare site would allow for the extraction of up to 450,000 tonnes of coal and fireclay within a 15 month period. Coal extraction will take place within an area measuring 29 hectares. The remainder of the site will accommodate top soil and subsoil storage mounds, overburden storage, water treatment areas and the site offices, plant areas and coal processing areas, including site access and haulage roads. The proposed development has been carefully designed to provide an environmentally sympathetic surface coal mine proposal. The proposed development will be progressively worked and the broad aim is to recreate a landscape which is characteristic of the locality with a balance of agriculture, nature conservation, woodland and recreation over a period of two and a half years. The restoration scheme presents a unique opportunity to provide benefits to the local area. This includes linking and expanding the most valuable habitats across the site and providing an enhanced right of way network. Access to the site will be via a new purpose designed temporary site access onto Jamage Road. Junction and road improvements have been designed to optimise sight lines for vehicles entering and leaving the site, as well as minimising impacts on properties in the vicinity of the new site access. A generally positive approach is being adopted via HGV routeing away from main residential areas. Assessment of Potentially Significant Environmental Effects The following summarises the main topic areas that have been assessed in the preparation of the ES. The assessment of the topic areas has been undertaken by employing a wide range of independent specialist consultants. Full technical reports relating to the evaluation of the potential impacts have been prepared and form part of the ES. Landscape and Visual Considerations Very few features of the existing landscape will remain undisturbed within the proposed development site, with the exception of the northern section of the Bignall End Coal Yard and all the perimeter hedgerows. The Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment concludes that there is a combination of features worthy of conservation and some detracting elements within the two distinct landscape character types found on the site. Little or no landscape pattern is evident and a lack of management has resulted in a degraded appearance. However, some parts are sensitive to change. Therefore, the overall sensitivity of the landscape is rated as ‘medium to low’. In the short term, for the entire 30 months operational period and the following 6 months allowed for land cover restoration, the magnitude of disturbance to the landscape is rated as ‘large’. Therefore, even with a landscape sensitivity rating of ‘medium to low’, the short term landscape impact significance rating is ‘moderately to severely adverse’. The restoration to a predominately agricultural use in the short to medium term will result in a landscape which is broadly similar in character to that which existed prior to development.
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