Paragraph 13 Pre-construction monitoringI1

The undertaker must, in discharging Condition 8(1)(b), submit details for written approval by the MMO of proposed pre-construction surveys, including methodologies and timings, and a proposed format and content for a pre-construction baseline report. The survey proposals must be in accordance with the principles set out in the In Principle Monitoring Plan and must specify each survey’s objectives and explain how it will assist in either informing a useful and valid comparison with the post-construction position or will enable the validation or otherwise of key predictions in the environmental statement. The baseline report proposals must ensure that the outcome of the agreed surveys together with existing data and reports are drawn together to present a valid statement of the pre-construction position, with any limitations, and must make clear what post-construction comparison is intended and the justification for this being required.

Subject to receipt from the undertaker of specific proposals pursuant to this Condition, where appropriate and necessary it is expected that the pre-construction surveys will comprise—

The undertaker must carry out and complete the surveys to be undertaken under sub-paragraph (1) in a timescale which must be agreed with the MMO.