Mark Furlonger - Technical Director
Temple Group has acted as the planning
authority through Planning Performance Agreements on a number of occasions, but
on 10th June we finished our biggest project – and delivered a
planning application for the second reservoir at Cheddar, on behalf of
Sedgemoor District Council.
It took almost two years to get here and
longer for the applicants to draw up the 160ha scheme, though the actual
application was less than 6 months.
Having been at the sharp-end on a number of
large infrastructure projects, this was different. We saw, in every detail, how
other consultants dealt with planning applications by having to deconstruct it,
line by line and make sure we could support it at planning committee.
But, it is very interesting being on the
local authority side and going through the pre-application to committee cycle.
Especially when a Council like Sedgemoor has spent months dealing with some of
the worst flooding for years and then dealt with water that the area did actually
need!
Having worked with the applicants at
pre-app stage, validated and assessed their application and a (not
in-substantial) Environmental Statement, none of the public objected to the
application. At the end of the 10-year build period, Cheddar will have a great
new recreational resource.
And a lot more water to drink….
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