The Net Zero Teesside Order 2024

Landscape and biodiversity protection management and enhancement

4.—(1) No part of the authorised development may commence until a landscape and biodiversity protection plan for that part has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority (following consultation with Sembcorp and STDC).

(2) The plan submitted and approved pursuant to sub-paragraph (1) must include details of—

(a) measures to protect existing shrub and tree planting that is to be retained;

(b) details of any trees and hedgerows to be removed; and

(c) biodiversity and habitat mitigation and impact avoidance.

(3) The plan submitted and approved pursuant to sub-paragraph (1) must be implemented as approved throughout the construction of the authorised development unless otherwise agreed with the relevant planning authority.

(4) No part of Work Nos. 1 or 7 may be commissioned until a landscape and biodiversity management and enhancement plan for that part has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority (following consultation with Sembcorp and STDC).

(5) The plan submitted and approved pursuant to sub-paragraph (4) must include details of—

(a) implementation and management of all new shrub and tree planting;

(b) measures to enhance and maintain existing shrub and tree planting that is to be retained;

(c) measures to enhance biodiversity and habitats;

(d) an implementation timetable;

(e) annual landscape and biodiversity management and maintenance; and

(f) monitoring measures in accordance with the measures and timeframes set out in sections 6 and 7 of the indicative landscape and biodiversity strategy and including a process for submission to and approval by the relevant planning authority of an annual monitoring report and provision of the annual monitoring report to STDC.

(6) Any shrub or tree planted as part of the approved plan that, within a period of five years 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 agreed with the relevant planning authority.

(7) The plans submitted and approved pursuant to sub-paragraphs (1) and (4) must be—

(a) in accordance with the principles of the indicative landscape and biodiversity strategy; and

(b) implemented and maintained as approved during the operation of the relevant part of the authorised development unless otherwise agreed with the relevant planning authority.