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The Woodsmith Project - S73 Project Amendments : Planning Statement

Condition Number

Current Wording

Proposed Amendment

appropriate Highway Authority. The proposals shall include a programme for construction and shall include for: • vehicular, cycle, and pedestrian accesses and internal circulation routes; • vehicular and cycle parking; • vehicular turning arrangements; • manoeuvring arrangements; • loading and unloading arrangements; • temporary traffic management; and • downgrading to an occasional use access for HGVs following the Date of Production. The works shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details and once created these areas shall be maintained clear of any obstruction and retained for their intended purpose at all times until the Date of Production. Prior to commencement of shaft sinking or chamber formation beneath ground at the Doves Nest Farm site and in accordance with the details in the document "York Potash Project: Habitats Regulations Assessment" prepared by Amee Foster Wheeler dated June 2015 with document reference 35190CGos064R, and as updated by the HRA prepared by Royal HaskoningDHV dated November 2017 with document reference 40-RHD-WS-83-WM- RP-0001 REV4, a programme for the implementation of the following shall be submitted to and agreed in writing with the MPA: a. A recharge trench to promote re-infiltration of surface runoff to recharge the Moor Grit aquifer up hydraulic gradient of the source area to Moorside Farm Spring; b. Provision of groundwater drainage areas beneath bunds E and F to collect spring water issues from the Scarborough and Claughton Formations for discharge via the mine site surface water drainage system.

NYM/2022/0346/CVC; NYM/2022/0286/CVC; NYM/2022/0569/CVC; NYM/2023/0130/CVC; NYM/2030/0499/CVC; NYM/2023/0873/CVC and; NYM/2024/0123/CVC

Part a) of the condition should be deleted. Nine years of hydrogeological and associated botanical monitoring of Ugglebarnby Moor has conclusively demonstrated that there is no highly sensitive, groundwater dependent ‘spring flush’ community present in the predominantly wet shallow valley area. The area is ‘wetter’ than the surrounding, higher ground due to topography and the influence of rainfall-fed sources of water in the superficial deposits. Spring flows in this area are primarily driven by saturation of the superficials, with groundwater contributions from the Moor Grit aquifer only occurring at times when the spring would already be flowing.

Woodsmith Mine has had no adverse impact on groundwater levels on Ugglebarnby Moor. This

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