Extend the time for landfilling operations to continue until 31st December 2030, plus 1 year to enable the restoration scheme to be completed by 31st December 2031. An additional waste type is also requested for landfilling of non-hazardous dredged material arising from activities carried out under statutory provisions for ports and harbours and/or for flood risk management

Why Was This Withdrawn?

• ✓Application sought to extend landfilling operations at Wrights Pit North until 31 December 2030, with restoration by end of 2031
• ✓Additional waste type requested: non-hazardous dredged material from ports, harbours, and flood risk management activities
• ✓Site is approximately 4.15 hectares at Point of Ayre, close to a designated Area of Special Protection for Birds
• ✓Key planning issues included continued need for the landfill, efficient use of void space, environmental impacts, and restoration implications
• ✓Officer recommended approval, but the application was withdrawn before a decision was made
• ✓amenity
• ✓ecology
• ✓Whether there is a continued need for the landfill and whether the change in waste types will undermine the efficient use of void space.
• ✓The environmental/amenity impacts of continuing operation and amendments to waste types.
• ✓The implications for final restoration

This application sought to extend the time allowed for landfilling operations at Wrights Pit North, a 4.15-hectare site at Point of Ayre in the north of the Isle of Man, until 31 December 2030, with a further year to complete restoration by 31 December 2031. It also proposed adding a new waste type — non-hazardous dredged material from ports, harbours, and flood risk management works — to those permitted at the site. The site sits to the east of a designated Area of Special Protection for Birds and has a history of previous planning applications. The officer's report identified the key planning issues as whether there remained a continued need for the landfill, whether adding the new waste type would affect efficient use of remaining void space, the environmental and amenity impacts of continued operation, and the implications for final restoration. The case officer recommended the application for approval. However, the application was formally withdrawn on 21 January 2025, so no planning permission was granted or refused.

The application was withdrawn by the applicant on 21 January 2025. Although the case officer had recommended approval, no formal decision was issued. The withdrawal means no permission was granted or refused.

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