The Manston Airport Development Consent Order 2022

10.—(1) No part of the authorised development is to commence, nor may powers under article 34 (felling or lopping of trees and removal of hedgerows) be exercised, until a landscaping scheme for that part, which sets out details of all proposed hard and soft landscaping works, has been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority.

(2) A landscaping scheme referred to in sub-paragraph (1) must contain all relevant mitigation measures set out in the register of environmental actions and commitments.

(3) A landscaping scheme referred to in sub-paragraph (1) must be substantially in the form of the draft landscaping plan.

(4) All landscaping works must be carried out to a reasonable standard in accordance with the relevant recommendations of appropriate British Standards or other recognised codes of good practice.

(5) The landscaping scheme approved under sub-paragraph (1) must be carried out in full.

(6) Any tree or shrub planted as part of the landscaping scheme that, within a period of 25 years after planting, is removed, dies or becomes in the reasonable 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.