Felixstowe Branch Line and Ipswich Yard Improvement Decision Letter
Table of contents
- Tranport and Works Act 1992
- Town and Country Planning Act 1990
- Applications for the proposed Felixstowe Branch Line and Ipswich Yard Improvement Order and for deemed planning permission
- Summary of the Inspector’s recommendations
- Summary of the Secretary of State’s decisions
- Secretary of State’s consideration
- The aims and objectives of, and the need for, the scheme
- Consistency with national, regional and local planning and transport policies
- Main alternatives
- The likely impacts of the scheme on local residents and the environment
- Landscape and visual impacts
- Effects on nature conservation, air quality, water resources and contaminated land
- Effects of the increased use of the Ipswich locomotive fuelling point
- Impacts of proposed construction site on Reeve Lodge, Trimley St Martin
- Impacts of the scheme on traffic and the rights of way network
- Impacts of the scheme on train operating companies and other businesses
- Adequacy of environmental statement (“ES”)
- Proposed planning conditions
- Summary of environmental impacts
- The case for compulsory purchase powers
- Funding
- Changes to the draft Order
- The Inspector’s overall conclusions
- Secretary of State's overall conclusions and decision
- Notice under section 14 of the TWA
- Challenge to decisions
- ANNEX 1
- 1. Time limits
- 2. Stages of Development
- 3. Design, external appearance and materials
- 4. Fencing and Means of Enclosure
- 6. Implementation and Maintenance of Fencing
- 7. Landscaping
- 8. Implementation and Maintenance of Landscaping
- 9. Protection of Trees
- 10. Archaeology
- 11. Protection of Levington Park Trial Grounds
- 12. Protection of Residential Amenity at Morston Hall Cottages
- 13. Implementation of Permanent or Temporary Footpath and Byway Closures
- 14. Contaminated Land
- 15. Water Pollution Control
- 16. Bat Surveys
- 17. Protection for Nationally Scarce Plants
- 18. Protection of Reptiles
- 19. Restoration of Land Used Temporarily for Construction
- 20. Code of Construction Practice
- 21. Noise Monitoring and Mitigation during Construction
- 22. Noise Monitoring and Mitigation during Operation
- 23. New footways at Levington Bridge and Thorpe Lane Crossing
- 24. Environmental Mitigation Measures
- 25. Reeve Lodge Construction Worksite
- 26. Approvals
- 27. Implementation
