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Conditions or Reasons for Planning Application - CB/23/03990/DOC
Conditions or Reasons:
13) The development hereby permitted shall not commence until an Arboricultural Method Statement and Tree Protection Plan, based on the supporting documents "Pre-Development Tree Survey and Assessment" dated July 2022 (document reference TDA/2009/TS&A/RhC/8.14), and the Tree Constraints Plan, dated July 2022 (document reference TDA/2009/TCP/RhC/8.14), which includes the Tree Constraints Drawings (Drawing No's TDA.2009.04 - Sheets 1 and 2), dated July 2022, has been prepared by a suitably qualified arboricultural consultant, and submitted to the Local Planning Authority for approval. The approved Arboricultural Method Statement and Tree Protection Plan shall then be implemented in strict accordance with the recommended methodology and sequence of operations, with tree protection barriers remaining securely in position throughout the entire course of development works.

Reason: To maintain a secure Construction Exclusion Zone around the designated Root Protection Areas of retained trees, in order to avoid ground compaction and branch damage that may be incurred from contractor vehicles and temporary material storage, so as to safeguard their health, screening, amenity and biodiversity value.
(Policy EE4, CBLP July 2021, and Section 15, NPPF July 2021)
15) The development hereby permitted shall not commence until a Landscape and Ecological Management Plan (LEMP) has been submitted to and be approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The LEMP shall include the following:

a) The proposed aftercare and long-term management of retained and new habitats. This will include, for example, the details of livestock management to provide a sward suitable for birds, bats, reptiles, and terrestrial mammal, and grassland creation.
b) Further details of the ecological enhancements to be provided, for example, bat/ bird boxes, badger gates.

The development shall then be implemented in strict accordance with the approved Plan.

Reason: To ensure the development delivers net gains for biodiversity and these are managed in an appropriate manner.
(Policy EE2, CBLP July 2021, and Section 15, NPPF July 2021)
16) The development hereby permitted shall not commence until a Construction Environmental Management Plan (CEMP) has been submitted to and be approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The CEMP shall outline measures to ensure construction is undertaken sensitively, in accordance with pollution control measures, and to prevent a detrimental impact on biodiversity. The development shall then be implemented in strict accordance with the approved Plan.

Reason: To minimise the impact of development on biodiversity.
(Policy EE2, CBLP July 2021, and Section 15, NPPF July 2021)
17) The development hereby permitted shall not commence until a Precautionary Working Methods Statement (PWMS), detailing reasonable avoidance measures for great crested newts, has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The development shall then be implemented in strict accordance with the approved Statement.

Reason: To minimise the impact of development on biodiversity.
(Policy EE2, CBLP July 2021, and Section 15, NPPF July 2021)
19) Part A: The development hereby permitted shall only be implemented in full accordance with the archaeological scheme of works as described in the document entitled: Chalgrave Manor, Luton Road, Toddington, Bedfordshire: Written Scheme of Archaeological Resource Management, document 2022/64, version 1.3, dated 09 November 2022, by Albion Archaeology.
Part B: This condition shall only be fully discharged when:
all elements of the archaeological fieldwork have been completed and the date of completion has been confirmed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.
a final archaeological report or (if appropriate), a Post Excavation Assessment report and an Updated Project Design has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. This shall be done within 12 months of the date of completion of all the archaeological fieldwork unless otherwise agreed in advance in writing by the Local Planning Authority
the post-excavation analysis as specified in the approved Updated Project Design (if one is prepared) has been completed.
the preparation of the site archives (including the completion of the archive report) for deposition at stores approved by the Local Planning Authority has been undertaken and confirmed in writing by the Local Planning Authority. For the digital archive this will include confirmation of the intention to deposit with a CoreTrustSeal certified repository dedicated to storing archaeological archives.
the publication report text has been prepared for submission to either a recognised archaeological journal, or the Historic Environment Record and this has been confirmed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

Unless otherwise agreed in advance in writing by the Local Planning Authority, items 3, 4 and 5 of Part B of this condition shall be completed within 2 years of the archaeological fieldwork date of completion. Should the project not warrant the production of a Post Excavation Assessment report, an Updated Project Design and a publication text, Item 5 can be completed on the approval of the final archaeological report.

Reason: In line with policy HE1 of the Central Bedfordshire Local Plan 2015-2035 (adopted July 2021) and paragraph 205 of the National Planning Policy Framework (July 2021): to investigate and record any archaeological remains affected by the development, to safeguard the long-term future of the archive and to make the record of all the work publicly available. Part A of this condition is pre-commencement because development works can have an irreversible impact on archaeological remains and an approved programme of investigation must be in place before the development starts.
(Policy HE1, CBLP July 2021, and Section 16, NPPF July 2021)


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