The Sunnica Energy Farm Order 2024

Landscape and ecology management plan

8.—(1) No phase of the authorised development may commence, and no part of the permitted preliminary works for that phase comprising vegetation removal may start, until a written landscape and ecology management plan has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority for that phase or, where the phase falls within the administrative areas of both the District of West Suffolk and the District of East Cambridgeshire, both relevant planning authorities, such approval to be in consultation with Natural England and Historic England.

(2) The written landscape and ecology management plan submitted under sub-paragraph (1) must be substantially in accordance with the outline landscape and ecology management.

(3) The landscape and ecological management plan must include details of—

(a) how the plan will secure a minimum of 10% biodiversity net gain during the operation of the authorised development; and

(b) how the landscaping and ecological measures will be managed and maintained during the operational life of the authorised development to the date on which the decommissioning environmental management plan is implemented pursuant to requirement 22 (decommissioning and restoration).

(4) The landscape and ecology management plan must be implemented as approved and maintained throughout the construction and operation of the authorised development.