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The Woodbury Salterton Residents Association Committee have read the documents
supplied by the applicant and agent and wish to comment regarding the following
planning application
16/2598/MFUL
Change of use of the site to storage yard including the erection of
temporary ancillary offices, fencing, SUDS and associated works
(Retrospective application)
Land at Greendale Business Park Woodbury Salterton EX5 1EW
The above plans shows the Proposed Employment Area for Greendale Business
Park, plus the application that was approved in 09/0410/MFUL highlighted in
green. Highlighted in red shows the outline of the location for the 16/2598/MFUL
development.
It shows that the application 16/2598/MFUL overlaps to the application
09/0410/MFUL referred to within the Design and Access Statement provided by
the Applicant, which they refer to constantly as a justification. However
approximately 50% of the development is outside previously permitted
employment designated land and therefore within open countryside or
designated landscaping land that were specifically located to shield the
employment area from the open countryside and residential properties.
It should also be noted that the 09/0410/MFUL application for an extension to
Greendale Business Park Employment Area in 2009 was an Exception to the
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The Design and Access Statement states that a planning decision should to be
based on the Local Plan unless material considerations indicate otherwise.
The Design and Access Statement 5.6 states that a number of policies are of
particular relevance to the appeal proposals. (It should be noted that this is for a
planning application and not an appeal.)
However the Refusal Notice from the previous application for the same location
15/2592/MOUT also states that a number of these policies are relevant in relation
to refusing an industrial development at this location.
The information provided by the developer and agent for the new application
still does not provide sufficient information to overcome the deficiencies of the
new proposal (which is virtually the same as 15/2592/MOUT)
The Design and Access statement states the Council is at an early stage with the
Village Plan, which would provide more weight to the already agreed status in
the East Devon Local Plan regarding Greendale and Hill Barton Business Parks
who are both excluded from expansion beyond their already designated
approved employment areas.
Policy E7 state that both Hill Barton and Greendale should not be expanded
further from their existing agreed boundaries as they are both considered
located in unsustainable locations.
It is a pity that the landscaping proposals for the various applications in 2009
where not adhered to as a substantial area of this site was planted with young
trees, as shown by the following landscaping approved scheme in 2009 for the
planning application 09/1195/MOUT
It is not surprising that there is no evidence of nesting birds and the site is
unsuitable for foraging bats dormice, badgers, reptiles and amphibians as the
survey was carried out after the development and all vegetation removed.
Taken from the Ecological Appraisal attached to this application 2.3 states
The site consists of around 1.122Ha of brownfield land that included
part of a former plantation woodland at the northern end of the
area. The whole area within which development is proposed is now
a brownfield site, with a very low ecological value
Taken from the Ecological Appraisal Addendum Report dated April 2016 1.6
states
There is a continuous and joined up line of four plantations of
broadleaved trees and shrubs to the east and north of the various
compounds in which industrial units are being, or will be,
constructed. It has been necessary to remove a small number of
trees from the western edge of the southernmost plantation, to
enable the construction of the attenuation pond
Following this report a Tree Preservation Order was implemented to protect the
remaining woodland from further destruction but it is understood further work has
been carried out following the serving of the Tree Order.
The proposed attenuation pond and discharge system are specifically related to
both the recent planning applications 16/2598/MFUL and 16/2597/FUL. Therefore
both these planning applications need to be considered together in relation to
Flood Risk and Foul Drainage. Failure to approve 16/2597/FUL will result in the
drainage strategy for this application to fail.
Taken from the Comments submitted by DCC Flood Risk Management Team
Section 3.2 of the Flood Risk Assessment and Drainage Strategy
(Report Ref. 4094, Rev. V04, and dated June 2016) states that
Compound 33A will be finished with rolled stone to enable the
surface water runoff to freely drain into the underlying strata.
However, the applicant has not submitted any information in order
to demonstrate that the geology in this location is conducive to
infiltration, and as such, this area must be treated as impermeable
when sizing the proposed surface water drainage management
system.
Furthermore, section 5.9 of the aforementioned document refers to a
climate change uplift value of 30%
for the proposed surface water drainage management system.
However, following the publication of the
Flood Risk Assessments: Climate Change Allowances document
(dated 19th February 2016) by central
government, the applicant will be required to use a climate change
uplift value of 40% when sizing the
proposed surface water drainage management system for this
development.
The applicant must also note that where infiltration is not used, long
term storage must be provided to store the additional volume of
runoff caused by any increases in impermeable area, which is in
addition to the attenuation storage required to address the
greenfield runoff rates. Long term storage should therefore be
included within the surface water drainage management plan to
ensure that each element is
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As shown earlier the previous application 09/0410/MFUL was for a smaller area
and the landscaping to the site proposed in 2009 has now been substantially
removed and therefore the landscape is significantly different.