Land To East New Road Drax North Yorkshire

ZG2024/0272/DOCDischarge of Planning ConditionApproved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 4 September 2024

Council decision: Condition decisionDelegated (officer decision)

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Proposal

Discharge of conditions 12 (external lighting), 16 (construction worker travel plan), 20 (maintenance of the proposed SuDS drainage scheme), 24 (archaeological mitigation strategy), 27 (contaminated land), 50 (construction phasing plan), 51 (construction method statement), 53 (land restoration scheme), 56 (construction worker travel plan) and 60 (contaminated land) of approval 2022/0711/EIA Hybrid Planning application comprising two parts: (Part 1) Outline planning application (all matters reserved) for the construction of a converter station at Drax, Selby; (Part 2) full planning application for the installation of high voltage direct current (HVDC) underground cables from the River Ouse to the converter station and high voltage alternating current (HVAC) underground cables from the converter station to the existing Drax Substation as well as all associated temporary works including compounds, accesses and bellmouths as part of the construction of Scotland-England Green Link 2 (SEGL2), a two gigawatt (GW) reinforcement of the electricity transmission system between Peterhead, Scotland and Drax, England. [Installation of underground HVDC cables from Mean Low Water Springs (MLWS) at Fraisthorpe, East Riding to the River Ouse and associated temporary works relating to land in an adjoining authority]

Received: 21 March 2024
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments: 8
Council: Selby
Ward: Camblesforth And Carlton

ReceivedReceived21 Mar
ValidatedValidated21 Mar
Consult.Consultation29 Aug
TargetTarget Date16 May
DecidedDecided4 Sep

Decided in 167 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Land To East New Road Drax North Yorkshire. Selby has handled 519 applications of this type. This one was decided in 167 days, 16 weeks longer than Selby's typical decision time. There have been 17 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 34 applications across Camblesforth And Carlton.

95% of conditions applications at Selby were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type: Discharge of Planning Condition
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Long Drax Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated: 21 March 2024
Consultation expiry: 29 August 2024
Consultation start: 15 August 2024
Consultation end: 29 August 2024
Last date for comments: 29 August 2024
Target decision date: 16 May 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent: Mott MacDonald
Agent address: Mott MacDonald Spring Bank House 33 Stamford Street ALTRINCHAM Greater Manchester WA14 1ES

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Documents: 40
Constraints: 82

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

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