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

Bat Special Areas of Conservation

44.  No works may commence until agreement has been secured under section 106 of the 1990 Act between the National Grid and the Joint Councils to cover payment for a monitoring service to cover—

(a) installation, use of and maintenance of temporary bat flyways;

(b) phasing of hedgerow removal and reinstatement works within the cable installation area through any Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty;

(c) maintaining bat foraging habitats in accordance with the Habitat Evaluation Procedure and associated calculations, including seeding of topsoil and subsoil piles;

(d) installation of and eight years’ maintenance of the reinstated permanent bat flyways (hedgerows) from the date of installation;

(e) installation of and maintenance of relevant plantings at Sandford substation, South of the Mendip Hills CSE compound, River Axe Cable Bridge option and Towerhead Brook Bridge of at least eight years from the date of installation; and,

(f) fencing installation and eight years’ maintenance.