Agenda item

Applications DA/17/2025 (KCC/DA/0320/2017) and DA/17/2081 (KCC/DA/0321/2017) - (i) Variation of Conditions 2,3,4,12,13 and 14 of Permission DA/13/206 to extend the completion date for development, return to using Articulated Dump Trucks (ADTs) for on-site haulage and to remove the seasonality of the operations and limits on delivery times; and (ii) Erection of a processing plant, construction of water management ponds and ancillary buildings at Joyce Green Quarry, Joyce Green Lane, Dartford; Ingrebourne Valley Ltd

Minutes:

(1)       The Head of Planning Applications Group referred to paragraph 11 of the report and informed the Committee that the details pursuant to Conditions 11, 21 and 27 of Permission DA/13/206 had not yet been approved.  This did not have the effect of changing the recommendations.

 

(2)       The Head of Planning Applications Group asked to amend the recommendations so that the drainage strategy condition was referred to in the second application rather than in the first, and that the first proposed condition for the second application was amended to read “the submission and approval of a Traffic Management Plan.”   This was agreed.

 

(3)       Mr R A Pascoe moved, seconded by Mr C Simkins that the recommendations of the Head of Planning Applications Group be agreed as amended in (2) above.

 

(4)       Pursuant to Committee Procedure Rule 2.26 (4), one-third of the Members present required that the way all Members cast their vote would be recorded in the Minutes.

 

(5)       On being put to the vote the Motion set out in (3) above was carried by 6 votes to 5. 

 

FOR:  Mr R A Marsh, Mr R A Pascoe, Mr P C Cooper, Mr M D Payne, Mr H Rayner, Mr C Simkins.

 

AGAINST:  Mr A Booth, Miss E Dawson, Mr P M Harman, Mr B H Lewis, Mr J Wright.

 

 

(6)       RESOLVED that:

 

(a)        permission be granted to the variation ofConditions 2,3, 4,12, 13and 14 ofPermission DA/13/206 set out in Application DA/17/2025 subject to conditions, including conditions covering thecompletion ofextraction andrestorationby 31December 2024; theuse ofArticulated DumpTrucks (ADTs)to transfermaterials tothe stockpilearea; operationsbeing permittedto takeplace throughouttheyear (ratherthan just Aprilto September); on-siteprocessing ofthe materialat theplant permittedin ApplicationDA/17/2081 in paragraph (2) below; annualproduction /output being limitedto nomore than150,000 tonnesper year; submission and approval of atraffic managementplan thatprohibits HGVmovementsthrough the M25/A282Junction 1Aduring thepeakhours of0700 to 0900and 1700 to 1800on weekdays,with norestrictionson Saturdays; noiseattributable tooperations onsite notexceeding 55dB LAeq,1hr at anynoise sensitivereceptor; no residential use of Ivy Cottageuntilthe sitehas beenfully restored;  the submissionand approvalof ascheme forregular noisemonitoring; compliance withthe detailsapprovedpursuant toconditions17,21 and 27  of  Permission   DA/13/206  (or  the  imposition of similar conditions asnecessary);  and those  other  conditions  ofPermission  DA/13/206  that  are necessary toensure satisfactorycontrolover thedevelopment (amended asnecessaryto reflectthe above); and

 

(b)            permission  be granted to Application DA/17/2081for theerection ofa processingplant, theconstruction ofwater management pondsandancillary buildings(weighbridge, office,messroom, stores)subject to conditionscovering thesubmission andapprovalof aTraffic Management Plan; theremoval ofthe processingplantwhen nolonger required; thesubmission andapprovalof aConstruction Management Plananda Servicing Plan,includingarrangements forabnormalloads; the submissionand approvalof adrainage strategydetailing anyon and/or off-sitedrainage works; thesubmission andapprovalof aprogrammeofarchaeologicalworks; and anyother conditionsnecessarytoensureconsistencywithApplicationDA/17/2025. 

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