Decision details

The Chief Executive Officer considered the recording of the Planning and Regulatory Functions Committee Meeting from the 8th March 2022 and the officer report in regards to the planning application for a ready mix concrete plant and associated aggregate storeage and agreed that there are no material planning considerations to warrant refusal of this application and any potential impacts on the environment can be controlled and addressed through the imposition of appropriate planning conditions (as set out in the report) and the imposition of an additional condition requested by Members that vehicle movements be limited to a maximum of 54 (as set out in the report) for the reasons set out below in this decision record.

By whom: Richard Flinton, Chief Executive Officer, under emergency delegated powers and after consultation with the Planning and Regulatory Functions Committee

PLEASE NOTE that as a non-executive function, this decision is not open to call in.

Under his delegated decision making powers in the Officers’ Delegation Scheme in the Council’s Constitution, the Chief Executive Officer has power, in cases of emergency, to take any decision which could be taken by the Council, the Executive or a committee.

Following on from the expiry of the Local Authorities and Police and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority and Police and Crime Panel Meetings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020 (“the 2020 Regulations”), which allowed for committee meetings to be held remotely, the County Council resolved at its meeting on 5 May 2021 that, for the present time, in light of the continuing Covid-19 pandemic circumstances, remote live-broadcast committee meetings should continue, with any formal decisions required being taken by the Chief Executive Officer under his emergency decision making powers and after consultation with other Officers and Members as appropriate and after taking into account any views of the relevant Committee Members.

The Chief Executive Officer has taken all relevant information into account in exercising his emergency delegated powers in this matter, including considering the views of the Planning and Regulatory Functions Committee.

The reasons for the decision in this matter are as follows:
i) the proposal complies with Minerals and Waste Joint Plan Policies: M01 (Broad geographical approach to supply of aggregates); D01 (Presumption in favour of sustainable minerals and waste development); D02 (Local amenity and cumulative impacts); D03 (Transport of minerals and waste and associated traffic impacts); D06 (Landscape); D07 (Biodiversity and geodiversity); D09 (Water environment); D11 (Sustainable design, construction and operation of development); I02 (Locations for ancillary minerals infrastructure and Richmondshire Local Plan 2012-2028 Core Strategy Spatial Policies: SP1, SP3 and SP5 and the Lower Wensleydale Spatial Strategy and Core Policies: CP1, CP2, CP3 (part 1), CP4 (part 3), CP7, CP8 (part 3 CP12 and CP13 as well as consistent with those paragraphs of the NPPF(2021) identified above.
ii) the proposal does not conflict with the abovementioned policies as it is considered that the highway network is capable of handling the volume of traffic anticipated to be generated by the development; the visual impact of the proposed development can be mitigated through the design of the proposal and conditions; the environmental impacts of the proposed development can by the measures in mitigation and the impact on any neighbouring residential properties can be similarly mitigated. Any adverse impacts are outweighed when considered against the provision of an additional facility for the production of ready-mix concrete within Wensleydale and there are no other material considerations indicating a refusal in the public interest; and,
iii) the imposition of planning conditions will further limit the impact of the development on the environment, residential amenity and the transport network.

N/A.