{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/thorpe-marsh-gas-pipeline-order-2016/schedule-1/paragraph-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/thorpe-marsh-gas-pipeline-order-2016/schedule-1/paragraph-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/297",
  "legislation_title": "The Thorpe Marsh Gas Pipeline Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/thorpe-marsh-gas-pipeline-order-2016",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Ecological management plan",
  "text": "(1) No stage of the authorised development must commence until a written ecological management plan for that stage reflecting the survey results and ecological mitigation and enhancement measures included in the environmental statement, after consultation with Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and any relevant statutory body, has been submitted to and approved, in writing, by the relevant planning authority. The ecological management plan must be consistent with, and have regard to, the written management plan for hedgerows and trees to be approved pursuant to Requirement 11.\n(2) The ecological management plan must include an implementation timetable and must be carried out as approved.\n(3) Any ecological works carried out under the ecological management plan must be carried out by a suitably qualified person or body and approved by the relevant planning authority.\n(4) The undertaker must replace with equivalent works at the earliest practicable opportunity any ecological works carried out in accordance with the approved ecological management plan that, within a period of five years beginning with the date of the implementation of the plan, become seriously damaged, destroyed or defective or are removed.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 Pt. 2 para. 16 in force at 25.3.2016, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/297/schedule/1/paragraph/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:26:11.700628+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."
}