# The Norfolk Boreas Offshore Wind Farm Order 2021, Paragraph 24: Ecological management plan

Extent: E+W

(1) No stage of the onshore transmission works may commence until for that stage a written ecological management plan (which accords with the outline landscape and ecological management strategy as appropriate for the relevant stage) has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority in consultation with the relevant statutory nature conservation body. The ecological management plan must be informed by post consent ecological surveying of previously un-surveyed areas for the relevant stage.
(2) The ecological management plan must include an implementation timetable and must be carried out as approved.
(3) Pre-commencement site clearance works must only take place in accordance with a specific ecological management plan for site clearance works which is in accordance with the relevant details for site clearance works set out in the outline landscape and ecological management strategy, and which has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority. The plan for site clearance works must be informed by post consent ecological surveying of previously un-surveyed areas for the relevant stage referred to in the plan.
(4) Construction works within 5km of the Broadland Special Protection Area and Ramsar site must be carried out in accordance with the mitigation relating to onshore ornithology contained in section 10.3.1 to 10.3.2 of the outline landscape and ecological management strategy, which must be incorporated into the ecological management plan.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1414/schedule/1/paragraph/24 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/norfolk-boreas-offshore-wind-farm-order-2021/schedule-1/paragraph-24
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