The National Grid (Hinkley Point C Connection Project) Order 2016

Implementation of landscaping and replacement planting

11.—(1) All landscaping and replacement planting works referred to in Requirements 9(a), (b) and (d), Requirement 10 and Requirement 30(3) must be implemented at the earliest opportunity and no later than by the first available planting season after that part of the authorised development to which the landscaping or replacement planting works apply is first brought into operational use.

(2) All landscaping and replacement planting works referred to in Requirement 9(c) must be implemented in accordance with the timescale specified in Environmental Statement Figure 7.35.6 as updated by Document 8.18.2.1, Appendix 2.9.27.1, ‘Appendices to Applicant’s Responses to Examining Authority’s Second Round Written Questions Part 1’.

(3) Advance planting must take place at the South of the Mendip Hills Cable Sealing End Compound and the River Axe Cable Bridge option (if used) in accordance with Document 8.18.2.1, Appendix 2.9.27.1, or at a later date within the planting season specified or the next planting season.

(4) Advance planting must take place at the property Ashtrees in Mark in accordance with the scheme approved under Requirement 10(2)(f).

(5) All landscaping and replacement works referred to in Requirements 9 and 10 must be carried out in accordance with specification set out at Document 5.7.2 Appendix 7K (NBS Landscape Specification) and the relevant landscaping scheme for that stage of the authorised development, and to a reasonable standard in accordance with the relevant recommendations of appropriate British Standard or other recognised codes of good practice.

(6) Any tree or shrub planted as part of an approved landscaping or replacement planting scheme that, within a period of fifteen years after planting for embedded landscape mitigation, eight years for bat flyway hedge planting, and five years for all other areas 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 otherwise approved by the relevant planning authority.