Paragraph 5 Decommissioning and restorationI1

No later than six months prior to the date the undertaker intends to decommission any part of the solar farm works and grid connection works, the undertaker must submit to the relevant planning authority for that part for approval, in consultation with the Environment Agency, a decommissioning environmental management plan, a decommissioning traffic management plan and site waste management plan. Decommissioning must commence no later than 40 years following the date of final commissioning of the first phase of Work No. 1 as notified by the undertaker pursuant to requirement 2 (phasing of the authorised development and date of final commissioning).

Where the undertaker decides to decommission a part of the authorised development that falls within the administrative areas of multiple planning authorities, the decommissioning environmental management plan must be submitted to each relevant planning authority and the approval of all relevant planning authorities is required for the purposes of this paragraph.

Pursuant to paragraph (1), the plans submitted and approved must be substantially in accordance with the relevant part of the outline DEMP.

The decommissioning environmental management plan submitted and approved must include a resource management plan that includes details of proposals to minimise the use of natural resources and unnecessary materials.

No decommissioning works must be carried out until the relevant planning authority approves, in consultation with the Environment Agency and the relevant highway authority for the highway(s) to which the relevant decommissioning traffic management plan relates, the plans submitted in relation to such works. The plans must be implemented as approved.

This requirement is without prejudice to any other consents or permissions which may be required to decommission any part of the authorised development.

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