Paragraph 9 Implementation and maintenance of landscapingI1

All landscape works must be carried out in accordance with the landscape management plans approved under requirement 8 (provision of landscaping), and in accordance with the relevant recommendations of appropriate British Standards.

Unless otherwise stated in the approved landscape management plan or enhancement strategy approved under requirement 23, any tree or shrub planted as part of an approved landscape management plan that, within a period of five years after planting, is removed by the undertaker, dies or becomes, in the opinion of the relevant planning authority, seriously damaged or diseased must be replaced in the first available planting season with a specimen of the same species and size as that originally planted unless otherwise approved by the relevant planning authority.

Unless otherwise stated in the approved landscape management plan or enhancement strategy, within a period of five years after completion of the planting of the approved landscape works comprising Work No. 7(f), a landscape management and maintenance plan for Work No. 7(f) must be submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority.

The landscape management and maintenance plan for Work No. 7(f) must include details of the management and maintenance of Work No. 7(f) until the connection works are decommissioned in accordance with the onshore decommissioning plan approved under requirement 25 (onshore decommissioning).

The landscape management and maintenance plan for Work No. 7(f) must be carried out as approved.