Comment

Representation ID: 168253

Received: 29/07/2019

Respondent: Cambridgeshire County Council

6.2 INFRASTRUCTURE DELIVERY PLAN

23 FOUL WATER NETWORK - PAGE 77

The County Council welcomes the recognition of the presence of the Bourn Water Recycling Centre (WRC), and the potential constraint it may pose for the proposed re-development of the Airfield. The WRC is safeguarded through the adopted Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Minerals and Waste Core Strategy 2011, and associated Site Specific Proposals Plan 2012, through Policies CS31 and SSPW7E respectively. Policy CS31 states:

"Waste Water Treatment Works Safeguarding Areas will be identified around existing (and allocated) waste water treatment works to prevent the encroachment of sensitive development which would give rise to future amenity issues and impose additional constraints on the operation of the waste water treatment works.

Waste Water Treatment Works Safeguarding Areas will be identified in the Site Specific Proposals Plan and defined on the Proposals Map, extending 400 metres around existing and proposed works, with a capacity exceeding 2000 population equivalent. The Waste Planning Authority must be consulted on any planning proposal within a Safeguarding Area except:
a. householder applications (minor development works relating to existing property)
b. advertisements

Within the Safeguarding Areas there is a presumption against allowing development, which would be occupied by people. This would include new buildings or changes of use of buildings to residential, industrial, commercial, sport and recreational uses.

Where new development is proposed within the Safeguarding Areas involving buildings which would normally be occupied, the application must be accompanied by an odour assessment report. The assessment must consider existing odour emissions of the waste water treatment works at different times of the year and in a range of different weather conditions.

Planning permission will only be granted when it has been demonstrated that the proposed development would not be adversely affected by the continued operation of the existing waste water treatment works."