Paragraph 29 Air qualityI1
England, Wales and Scotland
No construction of the development must commence until details of an air quality scheme have been submitted to, and approved in writing by, the local planning authority. The submitted details must include—
a plan for dust management which must include the methods proposed for the monitoring and control of dust and dust suppression measures;
the air quality monitoring methodology comprising continuous ambient particle (PM10, PM2.5 and total suspended particulates) and wind speed and direction, temperature, relative humidity and rainfall monitoring at locations at or near to Doggetts, Bishops Farm House, Knighton Farm and one close to the hamlet of Wick which monitoring must begin not less than one month prior to the date proposed for commencement of construction of the development and must continue until cessation of use of the development for the reinstatement of the onshore area has been certified as being completed in writing by the local planning authority;
provision for the submission to the local planning authority of proposals for continuous periods of monitoring and the provision of the results to the local planning authority together with proposals for the review of monitoring periods following the first anniversary of commencement of the construction of the development;
the monitoring details which must include real time logging of averaging periods of not less than 15 minutes and include remote interrogation and downloading and details of automatic notification to the local planning authority and other persons (such as the site manager) in circumstances where monitored concentrations exceed the trigger levels;
the maximum hourly mean concentrations (“the trigger levels”) of PM10, PM2.5 and total suspended particulates;
the steps to be taken in the event that trigger levels are exceeded;
the identity of persons to carry out visual inspections in order to review the potential for dust nuisance and, in the event of dust nuisance complaints being made, to help quantify the actual or potential dust nuisance; and
the measures to ensure that any diesel fuel used on site shall be ultra low sulphur diesel (ULSD) (<10mgS/kg).
The air quality scheme must be implemented as approved throughout the period of the construction, maintenance and use of the development.
Annotations
Commencement
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Sch. 1 para. 29 in force at 16.8.2012, see art. 1(1)