{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/portishead-branch-line-metrowest-phase-1-order-2022/schedule-2/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/portishead-branch-line-metrowest-phase-1-order-2022/schedule-2/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2022/1194",
  "legislation_title": "The Portishead Branch Line (MetroWest Phase 1) Order 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/portishead-branch-line-metrowest-phase-1-order-2022",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Landscaping scheme – disused railway",
  "text": "(1) Work Nos. 1 and 1A must not commence until a written landscaping scheme for those works, prepared in accordance with the principles of the railway landscape plans (disused line), has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority. Work Nos. 1 and 1A must be carried out in accordance with the approved scheme or any variation to the scheme that has been approved by the relevant planning authority.\n(2) The submitted landscaping scheme must include details of—\n(a) location, number, species, size and planting density of any proposed planting;\n(b) cultivation, importing of materials and other operations to ensure plant establishment;\n(c) vegetation to be retained;\n(d) implementation timetables for all landscaping; and\n(e) proposals to take account of the presence of trees with trunks of a diameter of 100 millimetres or more and to minimize the loss of such trees.\n(3) The written landscaping scheme for Work No. 1A must also contain measures to limit the impacts of the authorised development on the important hedgerow located between Work Nos. 1A and 17 and for the restoration of the important hedgerow following the cessation of use of Work No. 17.\n(4) Any tree or shrub planted as part of the approved railway landscaping scheme that, within a period of five years after the date that it is planted, is removed, uprooted, destroyed, dies or becomes in the opinion of the relevant planning authority, seriously damaged or diseased, must be replaced with a specimen of the same species and size as that originally planted, unless the relevant planning authority gives consent to any variation.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 6 in force at 5.12.2022, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/1194/schedule/2/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:53:31.025268+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."
}