{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m5-junction-10-development-consent-order-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m5-junction-10-development-consent-order-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/795",
  "legislation_title": "The M5 Junction 10 Development Consent Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m5-junction-10-development-consent-order-2025",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Environmental Management Plan",
  "text": "(1) No part of the authorised development is to commence until a EMP (2nd iteration) for that part has been prepared in consultation with the county planning authority and the strategic highway authority and submitted to and approved in writing by the relevant planning authority.\n(2) The EMP (2nd iteration) must—\n(a) be substantially in accordance with the EMP (1st iteration);\n(b) contain a record of all the sensitive environmental features that have the potential to be affected by the construction of the proposed development;\n(c) incorporate the register of environmental actions and commitments;\n(d) require adherence to working hours of 07:00 to 19:00 on Mondays to Saturdays with no working on Sundays, except for—\n(i) night-time closures for bridge demolition and installation or other works requiring the full or partial closure of, or otherwise adversely affecting the operation of, existing carriageways;\n(ii) oversized deliveries or deliveries where daytime working would be excessively disruptive to normal traffic operation;\n(iii) the provision of services at compounds, including security and vehicle recovery;\n(iv) works associated with the diversion or removal of existing utilities;\n(v) works associated with tie-ins to existing carriageways;\n(vi) works associated with traffic management and signal changes;\n(vii) any emergency works;\n(viii) any works for which different working hours have been notified at least seven days in advance to those parties who the undertaker reasonably considers will or may be affected by those works and recorded in the approved EMP (2nd iteration), in which case the EMP (2nd iteration) must require adherence to those working hours; and\n(ix) as otherwise agreed by the relevant planning authority in advance;\n(e) include the following management plans—\n(i) materials management plan;\n(ii) soil handling management plan;\n(iii) noise and vibration management plan;\n(iv) air quality management plan;\n(v) landscape and ecology management plan;\n(vi) emergency preparedness and response plan including flood management plan and severe weather plan;\n(vii) pollution prevention and control management plan;\n(viii) archaeological management plan;\n(ix) invasive non native species management plan;\n(x) operational unexploded ordnance emergency response plan;\n(xi) traffic management plan\n(xii) site waste management plan;\n(xiii) public rights of way management plan;\n(xiv) emergency vehicle movement management plan;\n(xv) community engagement plan;\n(xvi) carbon management plan;\n(xvii) river realignment and channel diversion management plan; and\n(xviii) statement of statutory nuisance.\n(3) The authorised development must be constructed in accordance with the approved EMP (2nd iteration).\n(4) Upon completion of construction of the authorised development, the EMP (3rd iteration) must be prepared in consultation with the county planning authority and the strategic highway authority and submitted to the relevant planning authority for approval within 28 days of the opening of the authorised development for public use.\n(5) The authorised development must be operated and maintained in accordance with the EMP (3rd iteration) approved under paragraph (4).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 3 in force at 25.6.2025, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/795/schedule/2/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:13:57.234000+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}