The Able Marine Energy Park Development Consent Order 2014

Provision of landscaping

7.  No stage of the authorised development, other than tidal works, is to commence until a written landscaping scheme has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority after consultation with National Grid. The landscaping scheme must include details of all proposed hard and soft landscaping works, including—

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

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

(c) 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 ground, including drainage, power and communications cables and pipelines and supports;

(h) details of existing trees to be retained, with measures for their protection during the construction period;

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

(j) implementation timetables for all landscaping works.

Implementation and maintenance of landscaping

8.—(1) All landscaping works must be carried out in accordance with the landscaping scheme approved under requirement 7 and to a reasonable standard in accordance with the relevant recommendations of appropriate British Standards or other recognised codes of good practice.

(2) The landscaping works must be carried out in accordance with implementation timetables approved under requirement 7.

(3) Any tree or shrub planted as part of an approved landscaping scheme that, within a period of five years after planting, is removed, dies or becomes, in the opinion of the relevant planning authority, seriously damaged or diseased, must be replaced in the first available planting season with a specimen of the same species and size as that originally planted, unless the relevant planning authority gives written consent to any variation.