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The Woodsmith Project - S73 Project Amendments : Planning Statement

Impact

Approved Development

SES Updated Development

Traffic noise

Negligible

Noise impacts on International Dark Sky Reserve designation

Minor to negligible Negligible

Table 6.6 Noise & Vibration Impact – Lockwood Beck

Approved Development

SES Updated Development

Impact

Construction Phase Noise

Negligible Negligible

Vibration

Traffic Noise

Negligible to minor Negligible to minor

Operational Phase Noise

Negligible

Overall, the residual effects of the proposed amended scheme in respect of noise and vibration are assessed as not significant. The development is therefore considered to accord with Chapter 15 of the NPPF as well as the objectives of Policy ENV2, Policy ENV7, Policy D02 and Policy SD4, in that it will not give rise to unacceptable impacts on tranquillity or local amenity and will incorporate appropriate mitigation to ensure compliance with relevant environmental standards.

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Air Quality

Policy ENV7 of the NYM Local Plan requires that development proposals safeguard the natural environment and will only be permitted where they do not give rise to unacceptable adverse impacts on air quality. Similarly, Policies D02 and D14 of the North Yorkshire Minerals and Waste Joint Plan permit mineral and waste development where there are no unacceptable effects on the intrinsic quality of the air environment, nor on the management and protection of air quality, including within Air Quality Management Areas. Chapter 9 of the SES provides a comprehensive description of the existing baseline air quality conditions and assesses the likely effects arising from construction and operational activities associated with Woodsmith Mine. The assessment confirms that the proposed amendments at Ladycross Plantation and Lockwood Beck have been appropriately scoped out of the SES on the basis that they would not give rise to materially different air quality effects. The assessment identifies that baseline air quality in the vicinity of the site is currently good and demonstrates an improving trend, notwithstanding the ongoing construction of the Approved Development. The effects arising from non-road mobile machinery (NRMM) exhaust emissions during construction are predicted to be no greater than those associated with the Approved Development and are therefore assessed as not significant in EIA terms. Emissions associated with blasting during the construction phase have also been assessed. The findings indicate that effects on both human and ecological receptors would be no

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