After taking all relevant issues into consideration, the Council has resolved to grant planning permission subject to the following conditions:- 1. The construction, drilling and testing activities approved by this permission shall be carried out for a limited period of 12 months from the date of decision. The drilling rig shall only remain on site for a maximum of two periods of ten weeks unless otherwise agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority. The Local Planning Authority shall be notified in writing within one week of the drilling rig arriving on site. At the end of the 12 month period, all drilling and test activities shall have ceased. This is then to be followed by a limited 6 month period for restoration, by the end of which all equipment, access, structures and buildings shall have been removed from the site, the borehole shall have been plugged and abandoned, the bunding and perimeter fences and ditches removed, the site levels re-graded and the site shall have been restored to agriculture in accordance with the details set out in Section 5.4 Restoration and Aftercare of the Planning Application document received June 2012 to the satisfaction of the Local Planning Authority. This condition is imposed because this is a temporary permission to allow a period of exploration and testing in the search for hydrocarbons to take place. At the end of the 18 month period the site needs to have been restored to its former use in the interests of protecting the Wolds Area of High Landscape Value and visual amenities of the area. 2. Unless otherwise agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority or as specifically required by a condition of this permission this site shall be developed, operated, de-commissioned and restored in accordance with the details proposed in the planning application documents received June 2012 and August 2014. This condition is imposed because the supporting statement proposes a form of development that is acceptable and departures from that programme could give rise to unacceptable effects that have not been considered by this application. 3. Details of any external lighting, including details of measures to reduce light pollution beyond the application site boundary shall be submitted to and agreed with the Local Planning Authority prior to the installation of the external lighting. The external lighting shall be installed only in accordance with these agreed details. This condition is imposed to reduce the likelihood of light pollution in the open countryside and protecting the Wolds Area of High Landscape Value and visual amenities of the area. 4. No development shall take place within the area indicated until the applicant, or their agents or successors in title, has secured the implementation of a programme of archaeological work in accordance with a written scheme of investigation which has been submitted by the applicant and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority (Circular 11/95, Model Clause 55). The Scheme shall include: i) Provision to be made for analysis of the site investigation and recording, following the post-excavation assessment, where the results justify this (as required by the NPPF). ii) Provision to be made for publication and dissemination of the analysis and records of the site investigation, where the results justify this (as required by the NPPF). iii) Full provision to be made for archive deposition of the analysis and records of the site investigation (as required by the NPPF). The development shall not be occupied until the site investigation and post investigation assessment has been completed in accordance with the programme set out in the approved Written Scheme of Investigation, and the provision made for analysis, publication and dissemination of results and archive deposition, has been secured. This condition is imposed as the site lies within a major Wolds landscape. Aerial photographs show the presence of crop-marks of ladder settlements, trackways and early field systems immediately adjoining the site. Subsequent geophysical survey has demonstrated that a series of anomalies of probable archaeological origin are present within the application area, and form part of this larger landscape: the form of these anomalies is consisted with a later prehistoric or Romano-British date, and it is clear that these would need to be evaluated to determine their nature, extent, and quality of survival, and to identify a suitable mitigation strategy. The request for this condition is in line with paragraph 141 of the NPPF. 5. The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in strict accordance with the avoidance and mitigation measures set out in Section 9 of the Ecological Report (Land South West of Crawberry Hill, URS Scott Wilson Ltd, May 2012) as submitted with the application. Any variation thereto shall be agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority before any such change is made. This condition is imposed in accordance with the recommendations of the Protected Species Survey forming part of the application, to make appropriate provision for natural habitat within the approved development and to ensure that all species are protected having regard to the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (as amended) and The Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010. 6. The development shall be carried out only in accordance with the following approved plans: Drawing Numbers MDC/REUK/CH1/PA/001 Rev: 1 Red Line Boundary Plan MDC/REUK/CH1/PA/002 Rev: 1 Site Construction Layout MDC/REUK/CH1/PA/003 Rev: 1 Drilling Rig Layout MDC/REUK/CH1/PA/004 Rev: 1 Well Testing Layout MDC/REUK/CH1/PA/005 Rev: 1 Access layout MDC/REUK/CH1/PA/006 Rev: 0 Site Location Plan MDC/REUK/CH1/PA/007 Rev: 0 Topographical Cross Section MDC/REUK/CH1/PA/008 Rev: 0 Drilling Cross Section North to South MDC/REUK/CH1/PA/009 Rev: 0 Drilling Cross Section West to East MDC/REUK/CH1/PA/010 Rev: 0 Extended Well Test Cross Section - North to South This condition is imposed for the purposes of clarity and to ensure the development is acceptable and departures from those plans could give rise to unacceptable effects that have not been considered by this application. 7. The development shall be constructed and operated in accordance with the details approved by the Local Planning Authority, including implementation of mitigation measures designed to protect groundwater, and these details shall not be altered in any way without the prior written approval of the Local Planning Authority. This condition is imposed in order to protect groundwater from risk of contamination arising from development on this site. 8. Any liquid storage tanks should be located within a bund with a capacity of not less than 110% of the largest tank or largest combined volume of connected tanks. This condition is imposed to ensure that there are no polluting discharges to the groundwater resource. 9. The level of noise resulting from the drilling operations shall not exceed 42dBALeq (1 hour) between the hours of 23.00 and 06.00 the following day. This noise level relates to assessments at the following properties; Cold Harbour Farm, Westfield Farm and Walkington Wold Farm. This condition is imposed to protect the residential amenity of the area. 10. The development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved Traffic Management and Road Safety Plan, including highway condition survey. The Traffic Management and Road Safety Plan shall include details of construction vehicle and abnormal loads routing, management of junctions to and crossings of the public highway and other rights of way, schedule of timing of movements, details of escorts for abnormal loads (if any), temporary warning signing, and banksman/escort details, arrangements for dealing with monitoring, damage to the highway, urgent repairs to the highway construction and rectification of any defects at the end of delivery operations on the highway. Development shall be carried out in accordance with approved Traffic Management Plan unless otherwise directed by Humberside Police. This condition is imposed to secure a safe and adequate means of access and routing for vehicles to the development and to establish a monitoring and repair process as a consequence of any damage to the publicly maintainable highway. 11. The vehicle parking, loading, off-loading and manoeuvring facilities as approved shall be retained for the duration of the works. This condition is imposed in order to ensure that the demand for vehicle parking and servicing can be met within the site as vehicles having to park, load or un-load or manoeuvre on the public highway would adversely affect the safety of other highway users. 12. Nothing shall at any time, whether permitted by the Town & Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 or not be erected, retained, planted or allowed to grow over 1.05 metres in height above the level of the adjoining carriageway within the area identified on the proposed visibility splay drawing no. LTP/1291/01/001/01 included within Appendix 2 of the Vehicle Speed Survey submitted by Local Transport Projects dated 23rd July 2012. This condition is imposed in order to ensure that nothing adversely affects the safety of vehicles leaving the site, and accordingly, persons using the main public highway due to visibility at the junction being restricted. 13. Hydraulic fracturing (also known as hydro-fracking or fracking) is expressly not permitted under the development hereby approved. This condition is imposed in the interests of groundwater protection and the broader protection of the amenities of residents. 14. The developer must notify UK DVOF & Powerlines at the Defence Geographic Centre with the following information prior to development commencing: a. Precise location of development. b. Date of commencement of construction. c. Date of completion of construction. d. The height above ground level of the tallest structure. e. The maximum extension height of any construction equipment. f. Details of any aviation warning lighting fitted to the structure(s) This condition is imposed as the height of the development will necessitate that aeronautical charts and mapping records are amended.
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