The Triton Knoll Electrical System Order 2016

Code of construction practice

14.—(1) No stage of the onshore works may be commenced until for that stage a code of construction practice in accordance with the outline code of construction practice (onshore) has, after consultation with the Environment Agency, been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority.

(2) The code of construction practice must, where relevant to that stage, cover all the matters set out in the outline code of construction practice (onshore).

(3) The code of construction practice must include—

(a) a construction method statement including details of the management of public rights of way and methods (including trenchless and non-trenchless techniques) for the crossing of watercourses (main river crossings to be undertaken using trenchless techniques only);

(b) a health and safety plan;

(c) a noise and vibration management plan;

(d) an air quality management plan;

(e) a soil management plan;

(f) an artificial light emissions plan;

(g) a site waste management plan;

(h) a pollution prevention and emergency incident response plan;

(i) a construction environment management plan; and

(j) a communications plan.

(4) The soil management plan (which forms part of the code of construction practice) must, where relevant to a stage, secure that any link box located in a place where agricultural machinery may pass over it has a cover that is—

(a) capable of bearing agricultural machinery loads; and

(b) designed so as to allow the wheels or tracks of agricultural machinery to pass over the link box without damaging the wheels or tracks of the machinery or the link box.

(5) The code of construction practice must be implemented as approved.