Development Control Committee Title: PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT OF A WASTE TRANSFER STATION (WTS) AT LONDON ROAD EAST, INCLUDING: A WASTE TRANSFER STATION FOR THE RECEPTION, BULKING AND LOADING OF WASTE; INSTALLATION OF WEIGHBRIDGES, WEIGHBRIDGE OFFICE, ACCESS AND INTERNAL ROADS AND PARKING FACILITIES; CONSTRUCTION OF AMENITY / WELFARE BUILDING; THE PROVISION OF SUDS AND LANDSCAPE AND BIODIVERSITY ENHANCEMENT AREAS WITHIN THE SITE BOUNDARY TO ATTENUATE RAINFALL AND ENHANCE THE APPEARANCE AND BIODIVERSITY BENEFITS TO THE SITE; RE-ALIGNMENT AND WIDENING OF THE HWRC AND SITE ACCESS ROAD; PROVISION OF ACOUSTIC BUNDS (AND FENCE) AND SECURITY FENCING; AND IMPROVEMENTS TO THE EXISTING A413 JUNCTION AT LONDON ROAD EAST, AMERSHAM, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, HP7 9DT Application no: CM/59/14 Applicant: FCC Environment Ltd Bucks Street Atlas: P166 A4-A5 & P165 F4 Date: 27th May 2015 Author: Head of Planning Contact Officer: Gemma Crossley Electoral Divisions Affected: Amersham and Little Chalfont / Chalfont St Giles Local Member: Cllr Martin Tett Recommendation: A. Subject to no over-riding objections being received from outstanding consultees, the Committee is invited to: A. INDICATE SUPPORT for application no. CM/59/14 at London Road East, Amersham; B. RESOLVE that the application be forwarded to the Secretary of State in accordance with the provision of the Town and Country Planning (Consultation) (England) Direction 2009; C. That in the event that the Secretary of State not intervening the Head of Planning be authorised to APPROVE application no. CM/59/14 for a Waste Transfer Station at London Road, Amersham, subject to the applicant entering into a suitable Legal Agreement, or to appropriate conditions, to secure the routeing of HGV’s between the site and the Greatmoor EfW at Calvert, and subject to conditions to be determined by the Planning Manager, including: 1. Details of the industrial access leading to the WTS shall be submitted to and approved by the LPA and the development shall not be operational until the access has been laid out and constructed in accordance with the approved details. 2. The proposed traffic management scheme shall include lining and signing and shall be laid out as shown on the approved details. For the avoidance of doubt the access alterations shall include a new 2m wide footway link leading from the existing bus stop on the A413, along the main depot access road and in to the application site. 3. Visibility splays to be provided on both sides of the access. 4. The development shall be carried out during the following hours: 0700 to 1700 Monday to Friday; with a maximum of 12 Saturdays per year following public holidays or as a consequence of adverse weather; no operations on Sundays and Bank Holidays. 5. Maximum of 43 HGV daily trips or 86 HGV movements a day (two-way). 6. Scheme for parking and manoeuvring and the loading and unloading of vehicles shall be submitted, approved and implemented. 7. Submission of a Construction Management Plan. 8. Prevent deposit of mud and similar debris on the public highway. 9. HGV’s exporting waste from the site travelling to Greatmoor Calvert shall turn left (north west) out of the site access and travelling along the A413 via Aylesbury and vice versa. 10. Details of existing ground levels, proposed slab levels and finished floor levels compared to a fixed datum point, shall be submitted to the LPA. 11. No waste management operations relating to the unloading, tipping, sorting, storing or loading of waste or waste products shall take place outside of the waste transfer building hereby permitted at any time. In addition, no materials, crates or waste shall be stacked or stored on the site at any time except within the buildings and no temporary structures shall be erected within the site. 12. The WTS shall not be brought into use until the weighbridges, security fencing, new access road and the staff and visitor car parking spaces have been completed in accordance with the approved plans. 13. Prior to the site being brought into use, the cycle store shall be provided and thereafter be retained. 14. No hazardous waste shall be used, stored or treated on site. 15. Details and samples of the external materials to be used in the construction of the buildings approved, shall be submitted to the LPA. 16. Details of the hardstanding surfaces shall be submitted to the LPA. 17. Submission of a Noise and Vibration Mitigation and Management Plan, including noise monitoring, shall be submitted. 18. Details shall be submitted of the proposed acoustically insulated cladding for the WTS building. 19. Submission of an Odour Mitigation and Management Plan. 20. Submission of a Dust Action Plan. 21. Details of the dust and odour suppression measures to be installed within the WTS building shall be submitted. 22. Details of the earth bunds and acoustic barrier shall be submitted to the LPA, including elevational details and cross sections. 23. Details of the SuDS drainage scheme shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the LPA. 24. The development shall only be carried out in accordance with the approved FRA. 25. Petrol/oil interceptors shall be fitted in all car parking/washing/repair facilities. 26. Submission and approval of a preliminary risk assessment, a site investigation scheme and a remediation strategy, and the works to be carried out as approved. 27. Submission and approval of a verification report which demonstrates completion of the works set out in the approved remediation strategy. 28. Submission and approval of a long-term monitoring and maintenance plan in respect of contamination. 29. If contamination not previously identified is found, no further development shall be carried out until a remediation strategy detailing how the unsuspected contamination shall be dealt with, shall be submitted to and approved by the LPA. 30. No infiltration of surface water drainage into the ground. 31. Piling or any other foundation designs using penetrative methods shall not be permitted. 32. A scheme of all water quality control features as identified on dwg no. ST13628-020, shall be submitted to and approved by the LPA. 33. A landscape management plan shall be submitted to the LPA, covering the top of the bank within 8m of the River Misbourne, including long-term design objectives, management responsibilities and maintenance schedule, how the buffer zone will be protected and enhanced, details of the proposed attenuation pond, and details of new planting. 34. The development shall be carried out in accordance with the Landscape management and Aftercare Plan. 35. Submission of a detailed planting plan shall be submitted to the LPA. 36. Refuelling of vehicles shall take place either off- site or within a designated area equipped with appropriate spill interceptors and/or spill kits. 37. Details of measures to be implemented in the event of waste spill out of designated areas shall be submitted to the LPA. 38. A mitigation strategy to avoid interference with any badger setts and to ensure that habitat connectivity and any links to foraging habitats are maintained following completion. 39. A mitigation strategy to avoid adverse impacts to reptiles. 40. An Ecological Clerk of Works to pre-check the site for reptiles prior to works, including a destructive hand search, during May to September and suitable conditions. All suitable reptile refugia shall be translocated. The submission of written confirmation from a suitably qualified ecologist that such works have been undertaken. 41. Submission of details of additional habitat creation for reptiles. 42. The submission of a River Misbourne Monitoring Regime. 43. Details of dark zones to be provided. 44. Details of the provision of bat features to be provided. 45. Details of the lighting scheme, including light spill, to be provided. 46. No lighting shall be used on site, other than during the approved hours of operation or for security or emergency uses. 47. Submission of a method statement for the protection of badgers to be provided. 48. A new badger survey shall be carried out prior to the commencement of works. 49. Submission of a Tree Protection Plan. 50. Submission of a Landscape Ecology and Management Plan, to include details of the attenuation pond, specification of artificial habitat, specification of badger fencing and grassland management details. 51. Details of bird nesting boxes to be erected on site, shall be submitted. 52. The brick proposed to be used on the WTS building and other buildings on site shall match the Bucks multi-brick effect as set out within the Chilterns Flint and Chilterns Brick Supplementary Technical Notes. 53. The roof and doors of the WTS building shall be coloured black. 54. All vehicles carrying waste shall be enclosed or sheeted. 55. All internal haul roads shall be hard surfaced for their entire length and be kept clean and clear of potholes at all times. 56. No lighting shall be erected at the site other than in accordance with details which have first been submitted to and approved in writing by the County Planning Authority. The details shall include provisions to ensure that no lighting will be used other than during operational hours. 57. The roller shutter doors shall be kept closed when not in use by vehicles entering or egressing the WTS building. 58. Prior to the commencement of the development a Construction Code of Practice shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the County Planning Authority. The scheme shall include details of the measures to be taken in the event that the clay cap is breached, and the measures to be taken to manage any contaminated material that may be encountered during the construction process. 59. Prior to the commencement of the development, a scheme shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the County Planning Authority detailing the measures to be taken to ensure that all reasonable means are taken to prevent the importation of waste that is otherwise recoverable through re-use, recycling or other recovery.