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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meaford-gas-fired-generating-station-order-2016/schedule-2/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/779",
  "legislation_title": "The Meaford Gas Fired Generating Station Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meaford-gas-fired-generating-station-order-2016",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Construction and Environment Management Plan",
  "text": "(1) No authorised development may commence until a construction and environmental management plan has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority. The construction and environmental management plan must be substantially in accordance with the draft construction environment management plan set out in appendix 17.1 to volume 4 of the environmental statement and must include the following—\n(a) the mechanism for ensuring that all relevant environmental controls and mitigation are incorporated into a construction method statement;\n(b) confirmation that no explosive blasting will be carried out during any demolition;\n(c) environmental objectives and targets;\n(d) environmental monitoring;\n(e) roles and responsibilities;\n(f) means of communication, record keeping, reporting, auditing and review;\n(g) complaints procedures;\n(h) nuisance management including measures to avoid or minimise the impacts of construction works (covering dust, lighting, noise and vibration);\n(i) details of construction lighting to protect potential foraging/commuting features;\n(j) habitats protection measures, including fencing to delineate the Trent and Mersey Canal Local Wildlife Site, protection zones for retained trees and bat roosts, means of escape for badgers and other small mammals;\n(k) measures to minimise the spread of invasive species;\n(l) site waste management plan;\n(m) surface and ground water protection measures (including bunding potential contaminate sources);\n(n) construction drainage strategy;\n(o) pre-construction works otter survey to be undertaken beneath Canal Bridge 101 (Malkin’s Bridge);\n(p) methodology for using harvested water where possible;\n(q) ecology, landscape and visual impact mitigation (covering protection of trees to be retained and minimising visual intrusion of construction works); and\n(r) protocol in the event that unexpected contaminated land is identified during ground investigation or construction.\n(2) The construction works must be undertaken in accordance with the approved construction environment management plan unless otherwise agreed with the relevant planning authority.\n(3) The undertaker may submit for approval by the relevant planning authority a construction and environment management plan for each of numbered work 1, numbered work. 2, numbered work 3, numbered work 4, numbered work 5, numbered work 6 and numbered work 7 individually, and, in such a case, only those parts of the authorised development forming the numbered work the subject of the construction and environment management plan may be commenced following the approval of such a construction and environment management plan.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 5 in force at 2.8.2016, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/779/schedule/2/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:21:25.297730+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."
}