®Planning appeal decision
Land adjacent to Willshee’s Depot 3, Keith Willshee’s Way, DE11 9EN, Swadlincote, DE11 9EN
the construction and operation of the Swadlincote Resource Recovery Park (SRRP) comprising an Energy Recovery Facility (ERF) and Aggregate Recovery Facility (ARF) together with ancillary infrastructure including grid connection cable and works, private electrical wire provision, substation, CHP off-take provision, internal vehicle circulation and yard areas, weighbridges, car parking, new access road, temporary construction compound and laydown areas, security fencing and gates, drainage, landscaping and off-site habitat compensation and biodiversity net gain
- Authority
- Derbyshire County Council
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- minerals-waste · Other Major Developments
- Inspector
- Griffiths P
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- the effect of the proposal on the character and appearance of the area, encompassing any impact on the setting and thereby the significance of affected heritage assets, and the design of the proposals
- whether there is a need for the proposal, in waste terms, so that any benefits the scheme might bring forward can be balanced against any adverse impacts it might have
What decided it
the Inspector's finding of a clear and substantial regional and local need for the waste recovery capacity, which outweighed the identified landscape, heritage and other harms.
the substantial benefits of meeting a demonstrated need for waste treatment capacity, co-location efficiencies, renewable energy/CHP generation, economic investment and biodiversity net gain outweighed the significant landscape and visual harm and the less than substantial heritage harm to the Scheduled Monument and the minor harm to the non-designated Cadley Hill Farm heritage asset
Framework references: 57, 58, 213, 215, 216
Plan policies cited: DDWLP Policy W1b, DDWLP Policy W7, SDLP Part 1 Policy BNE1, SDLP Part 1 Policy BNE4, SDLP Part 1 Policy INF8, SDLP Part 2 Policy BNE5
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