Paragraph 8 Landscape ecological management planI1

England, Wales and Scotland

(1)

No phase of the authorised development may commence until a written landscape ecological management plan (which is substantially in accordance with the outline landscape ecological 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 North Kesteven and the Borough of Boston, both relevant planning authorities.

(2)

The landscape ecological management plan must include details relevant for the phase of works in relation to—

(a)

the location, number, species, size and planting density of any proposed planting including details of any proposed tree and hedgerow planting and the proposed times of such planting;

(b)

an implementation timetable, including whether any further survey work is to be carried out;

(c)

how a minimum of 65% biodiversity net gain in habitat units, calculated using The Statutory Biodiversity Metric published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on 29 November 2023 (or such other biodiversity metric approved by the relevant planning authority in consultation with the relevant statutory nature conservation body), will be secured during the operation of the whole of the authorised development; and

(d)

how the landscaping and ecology measures will be managed, maintained, and monitored during the operational life of the authorised development to the date on which the decommissioning and restoration plan is implemented pursuant to requirement 18 (decommissioning and restoration).

(3)

Any hedgerow, shrub or tree planted as part of the approved plan that, within a period of seven years after planting, is removed, dies or becomes, in the opinion of the relevant planning authority, seriously damaged or diseased, must be replaced in the first available planting seasons with a specimen of the same species and size as that originally planted (unless a different species is otherwise approved by the relevant planning authority).

(4)

The landscape ecological management plan must be implemented as approved.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Sch. 2 para. 8 in force at 17.2.2025, see art. 1