5.—(1) The authorised development must be landscaped in accordance with a landscaping scheme which sets out details of all proposed hard and soft landscaping works and which has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Secretary of State, following consultation with—
(a)the relevant planning authority; and
(b)Natural England.
(2) The landscaping scheme must reflect the mitigation measures set out in the REAC and must be based on the environmental masterplan.
(3) The landscaping scheme prepared under sub-paragraph (1) must include details of—
(a)location, number, species mix, size and planting density of any proposed planting;
(b)cultivation, importing of materials and other operations to ensure plant establishment;
(c)existing trees to be retained, with measures for their protection during the construction period;
(d)proposed finished ground levels;
(e)implementation timetables for all landscaping works; and
(f)measures for the replacement, in the first available planting season, of any tree or shrub planted as part of the landscaping scheme that, within a period of 5 years after the completion of the part of the authorised development to which the relevant landscaping scheme relates, dies, becomes seriously diseased or is seriously damaged.
(4) All landscaping works must be carried out to a reasonable standard in accordance with the relevant recommendations of appropriate British Standards or other more suitable recognised codes of good practice, provided these meet or exceed the appropriate British Standards.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 2 para. 5 in force at 2.9.2022, see art. 1