Channel Tunnel Act 1987

Arrangements and schemes for certain authorised development

8 (1) Where the bringing into use of any building, facility or work comprised in any authorised development will result in the emission of significant levels of noise, the building, facility or work shall not be brought into use unless measures for the suppression of that noise have been taken in accordance with arrangements approved, at the request of the Concessionaires, by the district planning authority.

(2) The district planning authority shall not refuse any approval required for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) above unless they are satisfied that it is expedient to do so on the ground that the arrangements ought to be modified to preserve the amenity of the neighbourhood and are reasonably capable of being so modified.

9 (1) The land associated with any building, facility or work comprised in any authorised development shall be landscaped in accordance with a scheme approved, at the request of the Concessionaires, by the district planning authority.

(2) No building, facility or work so comprised shall be brought into use unless—

(a) a scheme for the landscaping of the land associated with it has been so approved; and

(b) any landscaping operations required by the scheme to have been completed before the building, facility or work is brought into use have been completed in accordance with the scheme.

(3) The district planning authority shall not refuse any approval required for the purposes of this paragraph unless they are satisfied that it is expedient to do so on the ground that the scheme ought to be modified to enhance the amenity of the neighbourhood or in the interests of nature conservation or of the preservation of a site of archaeological or historic interest and. is reasonably capable of being so modified.