{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/manston-airport-development-consent-order-2022/schedule-2/paragraph-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2022/922",
  "legislation_title": "The Manston Airport Development Consent Order 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/manston-airport-development-consent-order-2022",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) No part of the authorised development is to begin operation until an operation environmental management plan for that part has been submitted to, and approved in writing by, the relevant planning authority, following consultation with the relevant highway authority, the Environment Agency, Southern Water, Historic England, the Civil Aviation Authority and Natural England to the extent that it relates to matters relevant to their function.\n(2) The operation environmental management plan must contain—\n(a) chapters addressing—\n(i) environment and sustainability policies;\n(ii) legal compliance;\n(iii) reporting procedures;\n(iv) obligations to be placed upon third parties including tenants and commercial users of the airport;\n(v) stakeholder management and complaints procedures;\n(vi) waste and materials management (including hazardous or abnormal substances);\n(vii) noise management;\n(viii) air quality management;\n(ix) wildlife management;\n(x) water and drainage;\n(xi) traffic management and green travel planning;\n(xii) landscape planting and maintenance;\n(xiii) fuel storage and transport arrangements; and\n(xiv) operational use of herbicides to control vegetation;\n(b) plans, strategies and policy documents including—\n(i) environmental spillage plan;\n(ii) site waste management plan;\n(iii) carbon minimisation action plan;\n(iv) operational emergency plan;\n(v) wildlife hazard management plan;\n(vi) habitat management plan;\n(vii) long grass policy;\n(viii) emergency response and post-crash management plan;\n(ix) framework travel plan including freight management strategy;\n(x) public rights of way management strategy;\n(xi) car park management strategy;\n(xii) airport management strategy;\n(xiii) bus service enhancement scheme;\n(xiv) airport surface access strategy;\n(xv) HGV signage strategy; and\n(xvi) lighting strategy substantially to meet the requirements set out in the draft lighting strategy;\n(c) the commitments to aftercare, monitoring and maintenance activities relating to the environmental features and mitigation measures that will be required to ensure the continued effectiveness of the environmental mitigation measures and the prevention of unexpected environmental impacts during the operation of that part of the authorised development;\n(d) a record of the consents, commitments and permissions resulting from liaison with statutory bodies;\n(e) those mitigation measures set out in the register of environmental actions and commitments which are relevant to the operation and maintenance of that part of the authorised development; and\n(f) provision for a process under which the contents of the operation environmental management plan are continually reviewed against relevant best practice and any consequent changes are submitted for approval by the local planning authority.\n(3) Each part of the authorised development must be operated and maintained in accordance with the approved operation environmental management plan for that part.\n(4) No part of the authorised development is to begin operation until a bus service enhancement scheme, has been submitted to, and approved in writing by, the local highway authority. This must contain measures to enhance existing bus services and include shuttle bus service provision.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 7 in force at 8.9.2022, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/922/schedule/2/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:56:19.235500+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."
}