2360130

The application was refused due to significant information deficits regarding environmental impacts, traffic safety hazards on an inadequate local road network, and the potential for the industrial-scale facility to negatively impact the rural landscape character and archaeological heritage.

• The applicant failed to provide sufficient information to demonstrate that the waste processing activities would not cause environmental pollution or significantly impact European sites in the absence of a Natura Impact Statement.
• The proposed development would endanger public safety by creating a traffic hazard, as the narrow local road network (L-4035) is physically inadequate to accommodate the volume and type of heavy vehicle movements generated by the facility.
• The industrial nature of the proposal is considered incompatible with the 'Rural General' landscape zoning and would adversely affect the character of the rural area and potentially unrecorded archaeological remains.