The Meaford Gas Fired Generating Station Order 2016

Provision of and implementation and maintenance landscaping

4.—(1) No authorised development may commence until a landscaping scheme incorporating a written statement and plans has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority. The landscaping scheme must be substantially in accordance with the illustrative landscaping plan and the illustrative cross sections drawing and must include details of all proposed hard and soft landscaping works, including—

(a) location, number, species, size and planting density of any proposed planting;

(b) site restoration cultivation, importing of materials including topsoil and subsoil handling and storage in accordance with BS 3882:2007 and other landscape reinstatement operations in accordance with BS 4428 Code of Practice for general Landscape Operations, and the earthworks specification to ensure plant establishment;

(c) proposed finished ground levels;

(d) hard surfacing materials;

(e) vehicular access, parking and circulation areas;

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

(g) an arboricultural method statement including details of existing trees and tree groups identified for retention, management and reinforcement with the type and extent of protection to be in accordance with BS 5837: 2012;

(h) implementation timetables for all landscaping works;

(i) a 10 metre screening vegetation buffer as shown on the indicative landscaping plan;

(j) surface water attenuation pond designed to incorporate native marginal planting;

(k) the locations of low fertility (where applicable) for invertebrates; and

(l) butterfly bank planting.

(2) The landscaping works must be carried out in accordance with the approved landscaping scheme.

(3) The landscaping works must be carried out in accordance with implementation timetables approved under sub-paragraph (1).

(4) Any tree or shrub planted as part of the 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.

(5) The landscaping works must be managed and maintained throughout the life of the MEC to ensure the long term adequacy of the approved landscaping scheme.