The Knottingley Power Plant Order 2015

Construction environment management plan

17.—(1) No part of the authorised development may commence until a CEMP relating to that part, which accords with the principles set out in the environmental statement (section 27 – Framework for a CEMP), has been submitted to and approved in writing by the relevant planning authority in consultation with the relevant highway authority.

(2) The CEMP must in particular include—

(a) a code of construction practice, specifying measures designed to minimised the impacts of construction works, addressing—

(i) external lighting;

(ii) noise and vibration;

(iii) air quality including dust;

(iv) construction hours, subject always to paragraph (e), being, between 0700 and 1900 hours on weekdays and 0800 and 1800 hours on Saturdays and no working on Sunday or public holidays, except during such periods and in such locations as are previously agreed by the relevant planning authority; save in relation to Work No. 5 to which no restriction applies under this sub-paragraph (iv);

(b) a site waste management plan;

(c) a traffic management plan addressing construction traffic to and materials storage on the authorised development, including any road closures, site access and a construction travel plan;

(d) a scheme for the notification of any significant construction impacts on local residents to local residents and the relevant planning authority;

(e) a scheme for impact piling, or other means of pile driving, addressing methods and duration of piling and stating the criteria according to which pile driving is chosen, which must require impact piling to be limited to the following times—

(i) Monday to Friday: 0900–1800 hours;

(ii) Saturday: 0900–1300 hours; and

(iii) no impact piling on Sunday or Bank Holidays

unless such impact piling is required because of an emergency;

(f) a water management assessment (assessment of the risks to and mitigation measures designed to protect controlled waters (surface and groundwater) including pollution control); and

(g) a review of the impact of the authorised development on the River Aire in a water body action plan.

(3) The relevant planning authority must consult NRIL in respect of the elements of the CEMP concerning—

(a) temporary external lighting around the generating station and overhead lines and pylons, to the extent that it affects any railway belonging to NRIL, and

(b) the construction traffic management plan in respect of the generating station and overhead lines and pylons.

(4) All construction works must be implemented in accordance with the CEMP.