Pump station and pipework at South Marsh Road, Stallingborough

“SITE The site is situated on land adjacent to South Marsh Road in Stallingborough. There would be the pumping station with the pipe work running into Cress Marsh, the Habitat Mitigation site. Old Fleet Drain also runs to the south east of the site, and further arable fields bound the site to the far south, east and west with a woodland to the far south. To the east of part of the site is BOC and to part of the site to the west is KIA.”

“DM/0734/18/CND - Details in Discharge of Conditions 3 (Road Improvement Works), 7 (Construction Management Plan) and 9 (Written Scheme of Investigation) pursuant to DM/0099/18/FUL (Change of use from arable fields to mitigation area for a quality habitat area for Special Protection Area (SPA) birds with associated works including two water storage lagoons, shallow scrapes and ponds, bunding, a bird hide, footpaths, car parking, cattle and timber fencing, culverts and…”

“Section 38(6) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 states "if regard is to be had to the development plan for the purpose of any determination to be made under the planning Acts the determination must be made in accordance with the plan unless material considerations indicate otherwise".”

“Natural England - No objections following additional information and subject to safeguarding conditions. Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust - No objections. Council's Environmental Health Officer - No objections. Environment Agency - No objections, subject to an informative. Cadent Gas - No objections. National Gas Transmission - No objections, subject to a condition for working methodology. National Grid Electricity Transmission - No objections. HSE Fire Safety - No comments.”

“Impact on Neighbouring Amenity Policy 5 of the North East Lincolnshire Local Plan 2013-2032 (Adopted 2018) requires an assessment on the impact on neighbouring land users. No neighbour representations have been received during the planning process. The site is located well away from any residential neighbours and will not affect any residential receptors. There are neighbouring land uses along the length of the site, but these are commercial or industrial.”

“[name withheld] introduced the application and explained that it had been brought before the Planning Committee due to an objection from Stallingborough Parish Council. He outlined to the committee the key matters regarding the application as detailed in the officer’s report. [name withheld] stated that the application was recommended for approval with conditions.”

“NO RESTRICTIONS Councillor Bright noted that after reading the objection from Stallingborough Parish Council the parish had asked for more information. As such, he wasn’t sure why the application was before the Planning Committee.”

“Councillor Kaczmarek seconded the proposal to approve the application with conditions.”

“(Note - the committee voted unanimously for the application to be approved with conditions.)”

“RESOLVED – That the application be approved with conditions.”