The Rampion Offshore Wind Farm Order 2014

Provision of landscaping E+W+S

11.—(1) The works comprising Work No. 25 shall not commence until a written landscaping scheme and associated work programme (which accords with the principles set out in figure 26.6 of the environmental statement) has been submitted to and approved in writing by West Sussex County Council.

(2) The landscaping scheme shall include details of all proposed hard and soft landscaping works, including—

(a) location, number, species, size and planning density of any proposed planting, including any trees;

(b) cultivation, importing of materials and other operations to ensure plant establishment;

(c) existing ground levels and proposed finished ground levels;

(d) hard surfacing materials;

(e) vehicular and pedestrian access, parking and circulation areas;

(f) minor structures, such as furniture, refuse or other storage units, signs and lighting;

(g) proposed and existing functional services above and below, ground, including drainage, power and communications cables and pipelines, manholes and supports;

(h) details of existing trees and hedgerows to be removed and justification for their removal, including evidence to show that their removal is the only practicable course of action;

(i) details of existing trees and hedgerows to be retained with measures for their protection during the construction period;

(j) retained historic landscape features and proposals for restoration, where relevant;

(k) implementation timetables for all landscaping works; and

(l) proposed finished heights, form and gradient of earthworks.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 1 para. 11 in force at 6.8.2014, see art. 1