Garlaff landfill Site, Skares - Barr Ltd - East Ayrshire Council

e implemented and the securing of designated traffic routes
through a Section 75 Agreement is also recommended.
• the accessibility of the site to all areas to be served by the
development;
The location of the proposed development site will afford adequate
accessibility to those areas served by the landfill site.
• the impact of the development on the amenity of nearby residents of
properties located along the transport routes to the site;
The Environmental Impact Statement indicates that 95% of HGVs
accessing the site currently use the eastern section of the B7046
Cumnock - Skares road. This access route has few residential
properties (4) located directly adjacent to the road. The proposals
represent a continuation of the current volume of traffic associated
with the landfill operation. With the cessation of coaling at the
Milzeoch opencast coal site in March 2001, there has been a
significant reduction in HGV traffic on this section of road.
Consequently it is considered that there will be no additional impact
on such properties arising from the proposed development.
With respect to the western section of the B7046 road through
Skares, only 5% of HGV traffic associated with the landfill site utilise
this route (4 vehicles or 8 movements per weekday) and it is not
considered that this volume of traffic through Skares village will
have any adverse impact on the amenity of residential properties,
given that no opencast HGV traffic is currently allowed to travel
through the village. Further west along this route, this low volume
of traffic is additional to the substantial HGV movements from the
Skares Road opencast site. However, there are again few
residential properties located directly adjacent to the road.
• the impact of the development on the natural and built heritage,
including historic gardens and designed landscapes, visual amenity
and landscape character of the area;
The proposed development, which will utilise the void space from a
current opencast operation, will not result in any adverse impact on
natural and built heritage resources, designed landscapes or
historic gardens. The use of the opencast void space and the
topography of the site, together with progressive restoration of
landfill cells, will minimise visual impacts associated with the
proposed development. Given that the proposed extension area is
currently part of an operational opencast site, there will be no
additional impact on the landscape character of the area.