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The Woodsmith Project - S73 Project Amendments : Planning Statement

NYM/2014/0676/MEIA

In 2014, a planning application (reference NYM/2014/0676/MEIA) was submitted to the NYMNPA for permission to develop a polyhalite mine and underground Mineral Transport System. This permission was granted on 19 October 2015 subject to 95 planning conditions and the signing of a S106 Agreement.

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The description of development is as follows:

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“The winning and working of polyhalite by underground methods including the construction of a minehead at Dove's Nest Farm involving access, maintenance and ventilation shafts, the landforming of associated spoil, the construction of buildings, access roads, car parking and helicopter landing site, attenuation ponds, landscaping, restoration and aftercare and associated works. In addition, the construction of an underground tunnel between Doves Nest Farm and land at Wilton that links to the mine below ground, comprising 1 no. shaft at Doves Nest Farm, 3 no. intermediate access shaft sites, each with associated landforming of associated spoil, the construction of buildings, access roads and car parking, landscaping, restoration and aftercare, and the construction of a tunnel portal at Wilton comprising buildings, landforming of spoil and associated works.”

R/2014/0627/FFM

In tandem with the above, RCBC granted planning permission on 19 August 2015 (ref. r/2014/0627/FFM) for the areas of development within the area of its administrative control (including the Lockwood Beck and Tocketts Lythe intermediate shaft sites and the tunnel portal at Wilton International). The permission was granted by RCBC subject to 35 planning conditions and S106 Agreement. The description of development is the same as for NYM/2014/0676/MEIA granted by the NYMNPA. This permission has been implemented at Lockwood Beck and the MTS Portal site at Wilton. No works have commenced at Tocketts Lythe.

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NYM/2017/0505/MEIA

On 6 February 2017, the NYMNPA granted planning permission to amend the planning permission ref. NYM/2014/0676/MEIA under S73 of the TCPA 1990. The amendments comprised various design changes at Woodsmith Mine, including a re-design of foreshafts and shaft construction methodology, changes to building layout and shaft access arrangements, revisions to construction and operational shaft platform levels, revisions to location and layout of surface water attenuation ponds, revisions to groundwater management arrangements and amendments to internal access arrangements (ref. NYM/2017/0505/MEIA).

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The amended scheme was approved subject to 98 planning conditions, and a deed of variation to the originally approved Section 106 Agreement was entered into.

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The description of development is as follows:

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