The Swansea Bay Tidal Generating Station Order 2015

Adaptive Environmental Management Plan

6.—(1) No authorised development are to commence until an AEMP, substantially in accordance with the outline Adaptive Environmental Management Plan, has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authorities in consultation with Natural Resources Wales.

(2) The approved AEMP must contain provision for the revision from time to time of the monitoring and management measures that it contains in order to achieve the objectives set out in the outline Adaptive Environmental Management Plan.

(3) Construction and operation of the authorised development must be carried out in accordance with the approved AEMP as it subsists from time to time.

(4) The undertaker is to be responsible for the implementation of measures contained in or determined pursuant to the AEMP.

(5) The AEMP must include mechanisms for the delivery of mitigation to manage restoratively any adverse impacts resulting from the development, to habitats, species and sediment distributions on the Swansea Bay seafront arising from—

(a) increases in mud deposition within the lagoon;

(b) increases in windblown sand hazards; and

(c) increases in saltmarsh vegetation.

(6) The AEMP must include a scheme for the monitoring and management of siltation in the Monkstone Marina.

(7) The AEMP must provide for the appointment of a Core Review Group to include representatives of the undertaker, Natural Resources Wales and the 2 relevant planning authorities and to be chaired by an independent person selected by the Core Review Group.