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Land at Woodsmith Mine (formerly Doves Nest Farm & Haxby Plantation) Sneatonthorpe (minehead) - Proposed development
What is planned?
Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015 Notice under Article 13 of Application for Planning Permission
Proposed development at: Land at Woodsmith Mine (formerly Doves Nest Farm & Haxby Plantation) Sneatonthorpe (minehead); underneath 252km2 of the NYMNPA (winning & working of minerals); a corridor extending underground from the edge of the NP boundary to Wilton Complex (mineral transport system); Ladycross Plantation near Egton Lockwood Beck near Moorsholm Tocketts Lythe near Guisborough (intermediate shaft sites); site within the eastern limits of the Wilton Complex Teesside (tunnel portal).
Take notice that an application is being made by Anglo American Woodsmith Ltd for the variation of conditions attached to planning permission NYM/2017/0505/MEIA to allow for amendments to previously approved development at the Woodsmith Mine site and at Ladycross Plantation.
The application is submitted pursuant to Section 73 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.
The above-mentioned planning permission allowed for:
“Variation of condition 5 of planning permission NYM/2014/0676/MEIA to allow minor material amendments relating to that part of the development at the Woodsmith Mine site (formerly known as Doves Nest Farm and Haxby Plantation), including: re-design of foreshafts and shaft construction methodology, changes to building layout and shaft access arrangements, revisions to construction and operational shaft platform levels, revisions to location and layout of surface water attenuation ponds, revisions to groundwater management arrangements and amendments to internal access road arrangements at Land at Woodsmith Mine (formerly Doves Nest Farm & Haxby Plantation) Sneatonthorpe (minehead); underneath 252km2 of the NYMNPA (winning & working of minerals); a corridor extending underground from the edge of the NP boundary to Wilton Complex (mineral transport system); Ladycross Plantation near Egton Lockwood Beck near Moorsholm Tocketts Lythe near Guisborough (intermediate shaft sites); site within the eastern limits of the Wilton Complex Teesside (tunnel portal).”
Local Planning Authority to whom the application is being submitted: North York Moors National Park Authority, The Old Vicarage, Bondgate, Helmsley, York, North Yorkshire; YO62 5BP
Any owner* of the land or tenant** who wishes to make representations about this application should write to North York Moors National Park Authority at the above address within 21 days of publication of this notice.
Signed: Nathaniel Lichfield & Partners Limited (“Lichfields”) on behalf of the Applicant.
Date: 09 April 2026
Statement of owners' rights: The grant of planning permission does not affect owners' rights to retain or dispose of their property, unless there is some provision to the contrary in an agreement or lease.
“Owner” means a person having a freehold interest or a leasehold interest the unexpired term of which is not less than seven years, or in the case of development consisting of the winning or working of minerals, a person entitled to an interest in a mineral in the land (other than oil, gas, coal, gold or silver).
“Tenant” means a tenant of an agricultural holding any part of which is comprised in the land.
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