{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/riverside-energy-park-order-2020/schedule-2/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/riverside-energy-park-order-2020/schedule-2/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/419",
  "legislation_title": "The Riverside Energy Park Order 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/riverside-energy-park-order-2020",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Biodiversity and landscape mitigation strategy",
  "text": "(1) No part of the authorised development may commence until a biodiversity and landscape mitigation strategy for that part has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority. The biodiversity and landscape mitigation strategy must be substantially in accordance with the outline biodiversity and landscape mitigation strategy and include details of—\n(a) mitigation measures required to protect protected habitats and species, non–statutory designated sites and other habitats and species of principal importance during the construction of the authorised development;\n(b) mitigation measures required to protect protected habitats and species, non–statutory designated sites and other habitats and species of principal importance during the operation of the authorised development;\n(c) the results of the Defra biodiversity off-setting metric together with the off-setting value required, the nature of such off-setting and evidence that the off–setting value provides for the required biodiversity compensation, risk factors (including temporal lag), long term management and monitoring (25 years) and a minimum of 10% net gain;\n(d) the site or sites on which the compensation off–setting required pursuant to (c) will be provided together with evidence demonstrating that the site or sites has/have been chosen in accordance with the prioritisation set out in the outline biodiversity and landscape mitigation strategy;\n(e) certified copies of the completed legal agreements with the Environment Bank securing the site or sites identified in (d) and which demonstrate that the off–setting value will be paid to the Environment Bank within 10 days of approval of the biodiversity and landscape mitigation strategy to enable enactment of the biodiversity off-setting scheme and the biodiversity off–setting management and monitoring plan as approved in the biodiversity and landscape mitigation strategy;\n(f) any hard and soft landscaping to be incorporated within Work Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 including location, number, species, size of any planting and the management and maintenance regime for such landscaping.\n(2) The biodiversity and landscape mitigation strategy must be implemented as approved under sub-paragraph (1).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 5 in force at 1.5.2020, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/419/schedule/2/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:31:05.557847+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."
}