# The River Humber Gas Pipeline Replacement Order 2016, Paragraph 7: Removal of trees and hedgerows

Extent: E+W+S

(1) No stage of the authorised project involving the felling or lopping of trees or hedgerows under article 41 (felling or lopping of trees or shrubs) as shown on works plans sheets 5 and 7 may commence until, for that stage, details (if any) identifying the trees, groups of trees and hedgerows to be removed and, where appropriate, reinstated during that stage have been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority.
(2) Each stage of the authorised project must be carried out in accordance with the approved details (if any) for that stage.
(3) Any hedge or tree planting which is part of the approved details that, within 2 years after planting, is removed, dies or (in the opinion of the relevant planning authority) becomes seriously damaged or diseased, must be replaced in the first available planting season with planting material of the same specification as that originally planted.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/853/schedule/3/paragraph/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/river-humber-gas-pipeline-replacement-order-2016/schedule-3/paragraph-7
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