The National Grid (Yorkshire Green Energy Enablement Project) Development Consent Order 2024

Landscaping at Overton, Tadcaster and Monk Fryston

8.—(1) Unless otherwise agreed with the relevant planning authority, no stage of the authorised development in connection with the non-linear works at Overton, Tadcaster and Monk Fryston may commence until, where relevant for that stage, a landscape strategy that accords with the outline landscape mitigation strategy has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority.

(2) The landscape strategy submitted under paragraph (1) must include details appropriate for the relevant stage, including—

(a) the location of planting and a schedule of plants noting quantities, species, size and planting density of any proposed planting or seeding;

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

(c) details of the five year maintenance regime, including monitoring and management, and the management regime for any woodland planting in years six to fifteen; and

(d) details of the design of the proposed levels and slope profiles of any permanent earthworks.

(3) The landscape strategy referred to in paragraph (1) must be implemented as approved, by no later than the first available planting season after the authorised development is first brought into operational use and carried out to a reasonable standard in accordance with the relevant recommendations of the appropriate British Standard or other recognised codes of good practice.

(4) Any landscape planting, including trees or shrubs planted as part of a landscape strategy 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.