Explanation T12

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Safeguarding Zones around airports and aerodromes are established by the Secretary of State and defined on safeguarding maps issued by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). They define certain types of development that, by reason of their height, attraction to birds or inclusion of, or effect on, aviation activity will require prior consultation with the airport or aerodrome operator. Government advice in ODPM Circular 01/2003 sets out detailed guidance on how the safe and efficient operations can be secured. These areas are neither the responsibility nor the proposal of the Council as local planning authority.

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A number of safeguarding areas for Liverpool John Lennon Airport relate to land within the Borough. Those that affect parts of the Borough are illustrated in Figure 8.1. The whole of the Borough falls within the 30km consultation zone for wind turbine development.The main types of development that will require consultation are as follows: 

•  Any proposal likely to attract birds, such as proposals involving significant tree planting, minerals extraction or quarrying, waste disposal or management, reservoirs or other significant areas of surface water, land restoration schemes, sewage works, nature reserves or bird sanctuaries in the Borough south of the Knowsley Village / Knowsley Park area.

•  Applications connected with an aviation use in the Borough south of the Knowsley Village / Knowsley Park area.

•  Buildings and structures over 10 metres in the western part of Halewood.

•  Buildings and structures over 15 metres in central and eastern Halewood and the area to the north west of Halewood.

•  Buildings and structures over 45 metres in Tarbock Green area and the eastern part of Prescot and Knowsley Park.

•  Buildings and structures over 90 metres in a large area including Kirkby, Knowsley Business Park, Southdene, Knowsley Village, western part of Knowsley Park, Stockbridge Village, Roby, Huyton, Prescot, Whiston and Cronton.

•  All telecommunication and radio masts etc in the Safeguarding Zone which might affect avionics equipment or radar e.g. close to the aerodrome or flight paths (NB consultation is required by the General Permitted Development Order (GPDO), see Glossary, on masts erected under permitted development rights within 3km of aerodrome perimeters);

•  Street lighting, floodlighting, searchlights, illuminated advertising or laser displays which may present a confusing image to pilots on the approach to a runway.

•  All wind turbine development proposals and

•  Development that would involve using large cranes and other tall construction equipment that might impinge into the airspace of the Airport.

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Only the northern part of the Borough north of Kirkby around Northwood and Westvale is unaffected by the Aerodrome Safeguarding Zone.

FIGURE 8.1 Map of the Liverpool John Lennon Airport Safeguarding Zone

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