The Network Rail (Norton Bridge Area Improvements) Order 2014

Construction Environmental Management Plan

3.—(1) The authorised development must not be commenced until the following aspects of the CEMP have been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority.

(2) The CEMP must incorporate the findings and recommendations of the Environmental Statement and the design brief.

(3) The authorised development must be carried out in accordance with the CEMP.

(4) The CEMP must incorporate the following plans and programmes—

(a) External Communications Management Plan—

(i) External communications programme;

(ii) External complaints procedure;

(b) Pollution Incident Prevention and Control Plan—

(i) Identification of potential pollution source, pathway and receptors;

(ii) Control measures to prevent pollution release to water, ground and air (including detail of the surface/ground water management plan);

(iii) Control measures for encountering potential contaminated land;

(iv) Monitoring regime;

(v) Emergency environmental incident response plan;

(vi) Incident investigation and reporting;

(vii) Review/change management and stakeholder consultation;

(c) Site Waste Management Plan—

(i) Management of excavated material and other waste arising;

(ii) Waste minimisation;

(iii) Material re-use;

(d) Materials Management Plan—

(i) Material classification;

(ii) On site re-use criteria and measures;

(iii) Hazardous waste management;

(iv) Disposal measures;

(e) Traffic Management Plan—

(i) Roles and responsibilities;

(ii) Permitted and banned construction traffic routes and the mechanisms to be put in place by Network Rail and its contractors to enforce their compliance;

(iii) Procedures for working on the highway;

(iv) Road signage plans;

(v) Monitoring and reporting measures;

(vi) Access strategy and traffic management at the access off the roadside lay-by (off the B5026 between the roundabout and Stone);

(vii) The interfaces between the haul road and public highway (the crossing points at Searchlight Lane and the B5026);

(f) Travel Plan—

(i) Measures to manage contractor travel to the site compounds such as on-site or remote car parking management, car sharing, works shuttle bus etc.;

(ii) Mechanisms for reviewing and monitoring;

(g) Nuisance Management Plan (Noise, Vibration, Dust, Air Pollution and Lighting)—

(i) Roles and responsibilities;

(ii) Specific risk assessment – identification of sensitive receptors and predicted impacts;

(iii) Standards and codes of practice;

(iv) Specific control and mitigation measures;

(v) Details of any section 61 consent;

(vi) Monitoring regime – dust and noise;

(vii) Review/change management and stakeholder consultation;

(viii) Notification of working hours;

(h) Landscape and Ecology Management Plan (“LEMP”)—

(i) Roles and responsibilities;

(ii) Protection controls for retained landscape features, habitats and species;

(iii) Controls for protection of Doxey and Tillington Marshes SSSI;

(iv) Detailed mitigation for Meece Brook and Yelds Rough SBI;

(v) Detailed plans and specifications for ecological and landscape mitigation;

(vi) 5 year establishment, maintenance and monitoring plans for planting, ecology and geomorphology;

(vii) Aftercare and maintenance plans for habitats on Network Rail land (post 5 years);

(viii) Aftercare and maintenance guidelines for habitats on Staffordshire County Council highways land (post 5 years);

(ix) Aftercare and maintenance guidelines for habitats on other land (post 5 years);

(x) Habitat and protected species monitoring plans (to include scope, methods and reporting mechanism);

(xi) Bat roost replacement plans;

(xii) Soil Management Plan interface strategy;

(xiii) Change control, review and consultation processes;

(xiv) Tree survey validation and tree protection plan in accordance with BS 5837: 2012 (trees in relation to design, demolition and construction);

(i) Archaeological management plan—

(i) Roles and responsibilities;

(ii) Review/change management and stakeholder consultation protocols;

(iii) Procedures for dealing with unexpected significant archaeological discoveries;

(iv) Programme of archaeological mitigation;

(v) Post excavation reporting and archiving;

(j) Soil Management Plan—

(i) Soil resource survey;

(ii) Soil resource plan – including protection of in situ soils, handling and storage codes of practice;

(iii) On site re-use criteria and measures;

(iv) Hazardous waste management;

(v) Strategy for interface with LEMP.

(5) The CEMP must require—

(a) adherence to the relevant Environment Agency Pollution Prevention Guidelines PPG1, PPG5, PPG6, PPG21 and PPG22; and

(b) adherence to working hours of 7am to 7pm on Mondays to Fridays and 7am to 1pm on Saturdays except that:

(i) work on or adjacent to the operational railway may be carried out at other times if it would otherwise interfere with the operation of the railway; and

(ii) work may be carried out on Sundays, Bank Holidays and Public Holidays and after 1pm on Saturdays after prior notification to the relevant planning authority and affected residents in accordance with a notification procedure agreed by the relevant planning authority.