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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
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Templecombe Water Recycling Centre, Temple Lane, Templecombe, South Somerset, nearest postcode BA8 0HR.
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Templecombe Water Recycling Centre, Temple Lane, Templecombe, South Somerset, nearest postcode BA8 0HR.
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Details so satisfy Condition 12: Biodiversity Enhancement A Biodiversity Mitigation and Enhancement Plan (BMEP) shall be submitted to, and be approved in writing by, the Local Planning Authority in consultation with SCC Ecology prior commencement or prior to commencement of construction works. Photographs of the installed features will also be submitted to the Local Planning Authority prior to occupation: The content of the BMEP shall include the following: • Oak tree replanting on a 2:1 ratio, therefore 6 trees planted and managed. • Retained hedgerows managed to promote a species rich hedgerow composition, including cutting on a 3-year rotation and allowing to grow in a traditional A shape, being thicker at the ground level. • Installation of 3x woodcrete bird boxes on to retained mature trees, at a height above 3m and facing north or east. Reason: In accordance with government policy for the enhancement of biodiversity within development as set out in paragraph 170(d) of the National Planning Policy Framework. …of permission SCC/3865/2021
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Sign in to view collected details| Document | Published | Action |
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| 3865Cond12 Ecology - redacted.pdfCONSULTATION & CORRESPONDENCE (STATUTORY CONSULTEES) | 16 Nov 2021 | View |
| Ecology - redacted.pdfCONSULTATION & CORRESPONDENCE (STATUTORY CONSULTEES) | 21 Dec 2022 | View |
| DECISION NOTICE_SCC-3865-2021-COND12(1) - redacted.pdfDECISION NOTICES | 22 Nov 2021 | View |
| DECISION NOTICE_SCC-3865-2021-COND12(1) unsigned.pdfDECISION NOTICES | 21 Dec 2022 | View |
| Email trail with applicant redacted.pdfEmail | 14 Dec 2022 | View |
| Site Photographs - 10-03-2022(1).pdfPHOTOGRAPHS | 11 Mar 2022 | View |
| Retained Hedgerow Photographs.pdfPHOTOGRAPHS | 22 Mar 2022 | View |
| 3865 ApplicationFormRedacted.pdfPLANNING APPLICATION FORMS | 22 Oct 2021 | View |
| OFFICER DOC12 REPORT_SCC-3865-2021.pdfReport | 22 Nov 2021 | View |
| OFFICER DOC12 REPORT_SCC-3865-2021 unsigned.pdfReport | 21 Dec 2022 | View |
| D9877 Templecombe Access Road Planting Plan.pdfSUPPLEMENTARY PLANS & DRAWINGS | 1 Mar 2022 | View |
| 3865 Biodiversity Mitigation and Enhancement Plan (BMEP).pdfSUPPORTING REPORTS & DOCUMENTS | 22 Oct 2021 | View |
| Cover Letter 3865 redacted_Redacted.pdfSUPPORTING REPORTS & DOCUMENTS | 28 Oct 2021 | View |
| Planting Specification Letter - 25-02-2022.pdfSUPPORTING REPORTS & DOCUMENTS | 11 Mar 2022 | View |
| Proposed Planting Letter - redacted.pdfSUPPORTING REPORTS & DOCUMENTS | 11 Mar 2022 | View |
| Discharge of Condition 12.pdfSUPPORTING REPORTS & DOCUMENTS | 14 Dec 2022 | View |
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