The A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme Development Consent Order 2016

Implementation and maintenance of landscaping

7.—(1) No part of the authorised development is to commence until the undertaker has, following consultation with the relevant planning authority, issued a planting strategy which includes the landscape elements and objectives of the authorised development.

(2) No part of the authorised development is to commence until a landscaping scheme applicable to that part has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Secretary of State, following consultation with the relevant planning authority. Such landscaping scheme must be in accordance with the planting strategy issued under sub-paragraph (1).

(3) The landscaping scheme must reflect the mitigation measures included in the environmental statement and set out details of all proposed hard and soft landscaping works, including—

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

(b) landscaping works associated with any noise fences and walls (as appropriate);

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

(d) proposed finished ground levels;

(e) hard surfacing materials;

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

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

(h) implementation timetables for all landscaping works.

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

(5) Any tree or shrub planted as part of the landscaping scheme that, within a period of 5 years after planting, dies or becomes, in the opinion of the relevant planning authority, seriously diseased, must be replaced in the first available planting season with a specimen of the same species and size as that originally planted.