The A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet Development Consent Order 2022

Construction hours

19.—(1) Construction work for the authorised development must only take place between 0700 hours and 1800 hours Monday to Friday, and 0700 hours to 1300 hours on Saturdays, with no activity on Sundays or bank holidays, except as specified in paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2) Outside the hours and days specified in paragraph (1), daily start up and shut down is permitted and construction work may be undertaken for essential activities comprising—

(a) bridge and gantry demolition and installation including the installation of safety systems;

(b) works over and adjacent to the East Coast Main Line railway;

(c) lifting operations;

(d) site clearance of vegetation adjacent to live carriageways;

(e) site clearance of signs, street furniture and lighting columns adjacent to live carriageways;

(f) any oversize deliveries or deliveries where daytime working would be excessively disruptive to normal traffic operation, including delivery of plant;

(g) junction and highway tie-in works;

(h) installation of temporary and permanent line markings;

(i) traffic management measures and signal changes;

(j) installation of signs and technology;

(k) any emergency works or operations required for safe working;

(l) completion of activities already begun which require continuous periods of operation, such as completing concrete pouring; or

(m) non-intrusive environmental and engineering surveys.

(3) Outside the hours and days specified in paragraph (1), the undertaker may with the prior written consent of the relevant planning authority carry out the following activities—

(a) concrete pours and piling, diaphragm wall works, pavement operations;

(b) work associated with the diversion of existing utilities, including the removal of overhead power lines;

(c) earthworks operations, including excavation, filling, transport, placing and compacting of earthworks material;

(d) intrusive environmental and engineering surveys; or

(e) activities assessed in the environmental statement or which would not give rise to new or materially different effects from those assessed in the environmental statement which do not fall within paragraph (2).