Site Allocations Regulation 25 Consultation (September 2009) - Cumbria Minerals & Waste Development Framework 441 Site Assessments and Maps 4 South Lakeland ASSESSMENTS OF SITES WITHIN SOUTH LAKELAND 442 Cumbria Minerals & Waste Development Framework - Site Allocations Regulation 25 Consultation (September 2009) 4 Site Assessments and Maps PREFERRED SITES WITHIN SOUTH LAKELAND DISTRICT FOR WASTE MANAGEMENT Household Waste Recycling Centres SL 1 Kendal Fell Quarry (land adjacent) Waste Treatment Facilities SL 1 Kendal Fell Quarry (the quarry floor, which is mostly within the Lake District National Park). Energy from Wastes None Landfill None The other sites considered were SL 24 Lindal former ore mill sidings and SL 25 Roan Edge landfill extended. PREFERRED AREAS OR AREAS OF SEARCH FOR MINERALS M 30 Roan Edge Quarry sandstone Area of Search (high specification roadstone). MINERAL SAFEGUARDING AREAS Limestone, sandstone and sand and gravel. Site Allocations Regulation 25 Consultation (September 2009) - Cumbria Minerals & Waste Development Framework 443 Site Assessments and Maps 4 SL 1 Kendal Fell Quarry, Kendal 4.780 This is a preferred site for a Household Waste Recycling Centre to replace the one at Canal Head and, on the quarry floor, for built waste treatment facilities, although most of that area is outside the plan area as it is within the Lake District National Park. Summary of comments from previous consultation stages 4.781 It was supported as a Green Resource Park in principle, if based on the Best Practical Environmental Option, and it was acknowledged that waste management uses would provide some employment. Mitigation of traffic impacts were seen to be a key consideration, together with other impacts including noise and pollution. 4.782 Much of the quarry, including the access to the A 591, is within the National Park and outside the plan area. At an earlier stage, the National Park Authority agreed that the site could be put forward in this plan, on condition that it was not proposed for an incinerator. Environmental assets 4.783 The Morecambe Bay Pavements SAC and the Scout & Cunswick Scars SSSI are 600m from the site; Serpentine Wood & Kendal Fell County Wildlife Site is adjacent to the eastern edge; Cunswick Fell CWS is 550m away, Cunswick & Park Spring Woods CWS is 950m and Barrowfiled & Honeybee Woods CWS is 1.5km; an area of calcareous grassland UK priority habitat is adjacent to the site, semi-natural woodland UK priority habitat is 800m away and hay meadows and pastures UK priority habitat is 400m away. 4.784 The Northern Brown Argus, Small Heath, High Brown and Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary butterflies have all been recorded on both the nearby golf course and Scout Scar. Badgers have been recorded within the site. There are records of brown hares and common pipistrelle bats in the vicinity. 4.785 A public footpath runs along the eastern edge of the quarry. 4.786 There is licensed groundwater extraction close to this site. Enhancement potential 4.787 The size of the site should enable significant habitat enhancement measures to be incorporated into a development scheme. 4.788 Information required on extent of modern disturbance - some archaeological mitigation may be needed. Flood map zone 4.789 No identified flood risk. Safeguarding 4.790 There is an HSE safeguarding zone for the quarry. 444 Cumbria Minerals & Waste Development Framework - Site Allocations Regulation 25 Consultation (September 2009) 4 Site Assessments and Maps Agricultural Land Classification 4.791 N/A. Sequential approach 4.792 This is a brownfield site in a town. Site Allocations Regulation 25 Consultation (September 2009) - Cumbria Minerals & Waste Development Framework 445 Site Assessments and Maps 4 4 Site 446 WASTE MANAGEMENT SITE SCORING MATRIX - SL1 Kendal Fell Quarry, Kendal Cumbria Assessments Site Description / Characteristic Score Comment / Explanation / Issues Relevant SA Objectives SA Criteria Relevant selection MWDF criteria Policies Minerals 1. Proximity Within 5 miles of the centre of main towns* NR4 – Manage mineral resources Will the option: CS1, to waste sustainably and minimise waste CS7, arisings (by Within 5 - 10 miles from their centres - reduce waste miles by road and promote the GDC1 & and road) NR1 – To improve local air quality and movement of waste by rail and limit or reduce the W Within 5 miles of Key Service Centres** aste reduce greenhouse gas emissions emission of climate change gases and other air pollutants as a result? Maps Within 5 – 10 miles Key Service Centres Development SP5 – To improve the health and well Greater than 10 miles from a town or Key being of people Service Centre 2. Access to existing rail facilities NR4 – Manage mineral resources Will the option: CS1, Accessibility sustainably and minimise waste Framework Access to existing primary road network Access to Kendal bypass (A591) currently via private road - improve access to recycling and composting SP2 – To improve access to services, services, where possible within local communities Potential for rail access xx facilities the countryside and open spaces using sustainable transport choices? - Access to proposed primary road network Site - reduce waste miles by road and promote the Good local road accessibility movement of waste by rail and limit or reduce the Allocations emission of climate change gases and other air pollutants as a result? 3. Previously developed land (Brownfield) NR4 – Manage mineral resources Will the option: Regulation Sequential sustainably and minimise waste approach Greenfield - include measures to avoid soil degradation and NR3 – To restore and protect land and pollution? Allocated for waste management or x This would have been an active quarry soil employment use and at a town or key and landfill site at the time and would not 25 service centre have been allocated. - encourage the siting of waste management facilities Consultation on brownfield land? Allocated for waste management or employment use a but not at a town or - seek to protect good quality agricultural land and key service centre Greenfield sites as far as possible? (September - account will have to be taken of the proportion of brownfield land in the assessment 4. No owner objection No directly related SA objectives No directly related SA criteria 2009) Deliverability Owner objection exists 5. Flood Zone 1 or no flood risk NR4 – Manage mineral resources Will the option: Risk sustainably and minimise waste Zone 2 Site Description / Characteristic Score Comment / Explanation / Issues Relevant SA Objectives SA Criteria Relevant selection MWDF criteria Policies NR2 – To improve water quality and - alleviate flooding and flood contamination of water Zone 3a resources resources? Site Zone 3b (functional floodplain) EN3 – To improve the quality of the built - be in an area at risk from flooding and/or be likely Allocations environment to create a higher risk of flooding elsewhere? 6. Other Conflict unlikely with other land use No directly related SA objectives No directly related SA criteria Regulation land uses Conflict likely with other land use 7. Large enough to accommodate more than NR1 - To improve local air quality and - Will the option: Co-location one facility reduce greenhouse gas emissions 25 potential Consultation Not large enough to accommodate more - minimise loss of green field sites or areas of open than one facility NR3 – To restore and protect land and space soil - Will site location criteria minimise the need for NR4 – Manage mineral resources transport sustainably and minimise waste (September SP5 - To improve the health and sense of well being of people 2009) 8. Proximity No houses within 250 metres NR4 – Manage mineral resources Will the option: to Housing sustainably and minimise waste - Houses within 250 metres x Cumbria - Will the plan ensure that local air quality is not NR1 – To improve local air quality and adversely affected by pollution reduce greenhouse gas emissions - limit the negative impact on people’s health and Minerals SP5 – To improve the health and well well being? being of people Site & W 9. European/National sites, species or habitats NR4 – Manage mineral resources minimise adverse impacts on species and habitats aste Environmental sustainably and minimise waste through human activities and development? Assessments Assets Potential to enhance Development No impact Development unlikely to affect the EN1 – To protect and enhance biodiversity -ensure continuity of ecological frameworks such as adjacent UK Priority Habitat (Calcareous river corridors, coastal habitats, uplands, woodlands Grassland). EN2 – To preserve enhance and manage and scrub to enable free passage of specific habitat landscape quality and character for future dependent species? Indirect adverse (site outside designated generations Framework area) - take account of the impacts of climate change on and Direct adverse (site directly within biodiversity? Will the option: designated area) Maps 447 4 4 Site 448 Site Description / Characteristic Score Comment / Explanation / Issues Relevant SA Objectives SA Criteria Relevant selection MWDF Cumbria criteria Policies Assessments Local sites or priority species/habitats - protect and conserve habitats and species especially where these may be rare, declining, Minerals Potential to enhance threatened or indigenous? No impact Development unlikely to affect the adjacent County Wildlife Sites. It would ensure biodiversity sustainability by enhancing have less impact than the existing HWRC, conditions