Agenda item

Full Planning Consent - Development of three new public footpaths and associated biodiversity net gain interventions at Kinder Plateau (NP/HPK/1124/1254) WE

Minutes:

The Planning Officer presented the report and outlined the reasons for approval as outlined in the report.

The following spoke under the public participation at meetings scheme:

Phil Owen, Applicant

A motion to approve the application was moved, seconded, put to the vote and carried.

RESOLVED:

That the application be APPROVED subject to prior entry into a planning obligation under S.106 to secure the monitoring of Biodiversity Net Gain for a 30 year period and subject to the following conditions:

1. 3-year implementation timeframe.

2. Development to be carried out in strict accordance with the submitted details and plans.

3. No development shall commence until a Habitat and Management Monitoring Plan (HMMP) has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The HMMP shall provide details for the creation, enhancement and management of habitats on the site and adjacent to the site post development. Thereafter, the development shall be carried out and the site monitored in complete compliance with the agreed HMMP.

4. The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with the approved biodiversity gain plan (approved under general condition imposed by paragraph 13(1), Schedule 7A of the Town and Country Planning Act (1990)) and the approved biodiversity gain plan shall be implemented in accordance with a timescale which shall be approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority prior to the commencement of the development hereby permitted.

5. Prior to their installation, a sample gritstone flag shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Thereafter the development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details.

6. The development shall be constructed in complete accordance with Section 3.1.11 ‘Construction Management’ outlined in the Planning, Design and Access Statement (Mott MacDonald, October 2024).

7. The development shall be carried out in strict accordance with the ‘Kinder Scout Footpath Restoration Archaeological Management Plan’ (March 2025).

8. The ground works and installation of the gritstone flags shall take place outside of bird nesting season (March – September inclusive) unless in accordance with an ecological watching brief which shall be first submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

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