The M20 Junction 10a Development Consent Order 2017

Construction Environmental Management Plan

3.—(1) No part of the authorised development is to commence until a CEMP has been prepared in consultation with the relevant planning authority, the local highway authority and the Environment Agency and submitted to and approved in writing by the Secretary of State.

(2) The CEMP must—

(a) be substantially in accordance with the outline construction environmental management plan certified under article 44 (certification of plans, etc.) except that measures may be added to take account of and accommodate within the CEMP any turning loop constructed or under construction by the local highway authority on plot 4/16/c as identified in the book of reference and on the land plans at the time of commencement of the authorised development;

(b) contain a record of all the sensitive environmental features that have the potential to be affected by the construction of the proposed development;

(c) incorporate the measures as detailed in the environmental statement;

(d) include information on the control measures required to mitigate and reduce potential impacts which reflect the mitigation measures included in the environmental statement;

(e) require adherence to working hours of 07:00 to 18:00 on Mondays to Fridays and 07:00 to 13:00 on Saturdays, except for—

(i) works requiring the full or partial closure of, or otherwise adversely affecting the operation of, the M20 carriageway;

(ii) works associated with the demolition of the Church Road footbridge and the Highfield Lane bridge;

(iii) works associated with the construction of the new Church Road Bridge, the new Kingsford Street Bridge, the two new Junction 10a interchange bridges over the M20 carriageway and the A20 Swatfield bridge;

(iv) works associated with the diversion of existing utilities;

(v) works associated with traffic management and signal changes;

(vi) works associated with tie-ins to existing carriageways; and

(vii) any emergency works;

(f) include management plans, working methods and mitigation measures for each of the topics covered in the environmental statement, including—

(i) LEMP;

(ii) Arboricultural Method Statement;

(iii) Archaeological Written Scheme of Investigation;

(iv) Japanese Knotweed Management Plan;

(v) Materials Management Plan;

(vi) Soil Handling and Management Plan;

(vii) Site Waste Management Plan;

(viii) Community Relations Strategy;

(ix) Groundwater Monitoring Strategy; and

(x) Noise and Vibration Monitoring Strategy.

(3) The authorised development must be constructed in accordance with the approved CEMP.

(4) Upon completion of construction of the authorised development the CEMP must be converted into the HEMP which may include measures to take account of and accommodate within the HEMP any turning loop constructed or to be constructed by the local highway authority on plot 4/16/c as identified in the book of reference and on the land plans.

(5) The authorised development must be operated and maintained in accordance with the HEMP.