Drainage
Following a review of the Environment Agency flood risk for planning map, the entire site is identified as being located within Flood Zone 1, an area with the lowest probability of flooding, as is much of the surrounding area.
Sustainable Drainage System (SuDS) features will be incorporated into the site to ensure that surface water run-off is appropriately managed. This will also ensure that the water quality of run-off is improved.
Flows from impervious areas across the site will be collected, attenuated and discharged by infiltration via four deep borehole soakaways into the permeable Coombe Down Oolite layer that underlays the quarry floor.
A Drainage Strategy Plan has been prepared which forms part of the planning application.
Other technical considerations
A full suite of technical reports has been prepared by specialist consultants and submitted with the planning application. These include:
- Transport assessment and travel plan
- Ecology impact assessment
- Habitat management and monitoring plan
- Acoustic statement
- Arboricultural survey and impact assessment
- Biodiversity Net Gain assessment
- Lighting assessment
- Landscape strategy
- Landscape and environmental management plan
- Sustainability statement
- Drainage Strategy Plan and Flood Risk Assessment
- Geo-environmental assessment
- Hydrogeological risk assessment
- Tree condition assessment
- Construction and environmental management plan
- Operational statement
These reports and others are available for public review through Bath & North East Somerset Council’s statutory consultation on the planning application which can be accessed on the council’s planning portal (reference XX/XXXX).