The Hirwaun Generating Station Order 2015

Provision of landscaping

5.—(1) Numbered work 2 of the authorised development is not to commence until a written landscaping plan for numbered work 2 has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority. The landscaping plan must include details of all proposed hard and soft landscaping works and be substantially in accordance with the landscaping mitigation proposals set out in figure 11.5 of the environmental statement in so far as the relate to numbered work 2, and include details of—

(a) location, number, species, size and planting density of any proposed planting including details of any proposed tree planting and the proposed times of such planting;

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

(c) proposed finished ground levels;

(d) hard surfacing materials;

(e) vehicular and pedestrian access, parking and circulation areas;

(f) minor structures, such as furniture, refuse or other storage units and signs;

(g) existing trees to be retained, with measures for their protection together with any landscaping and visual mitigation required during the construction period;

(h) implementation timetables for all landscaping works;

(i) measures for the management of the ecological resources that will remain within the Order land on completion of the authorised development; and

(j) landscaping maintenance throughout the operational life of the authorised development.

(2) All landscaping works must be carried out in accordance with the landscaping plan approved under this requirement 5 and to a reasonable standard in accordance with the relevant recommendations of appropriate British Standards or other recognised codes of good practice.

(3) The landscaping works must be carried out in accordance with implementation timetables approved in the landscaping plan under this requirement 5.

(4) Any tree or shrub planted as part of an approved landscaping scheme 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 approved by the relevant planning authority.