Paragraph 6 Landscaping and biodiversity management and enhancement

(1)

In relation to Work No. 1, Work No. 2 and Work No. 4, no development must be commenced until a landscaping and biodiversity management and enhancement plan, where relevant for that Work has, after consultation with the Environment Agency, Natural England, Lincolnshire County Council, Nottinghamshire County Council and West Lindsey District Council, been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority.

(2)

The plan submitted and approved must include details of—

(a)

measures to protect, manage and enhance existing shrub and tree planting that is to be retained;

(b)

biodiversity and habitat mitigation and impact avoidance;

(c)

an implementation timetable; and

(d)

maintenance and management, including a landscaping maintenance plan incorporating measures to protect, manage and enhance all shrub and tree planting.

(3)

The plan submitted and approved must be in accordance with the certified landscaping and biodiversity management and enhancement plan unless otherwise agreed with the relevant planning authority.

(4)

The plan must be implemented prior to commissioning and maintained as approved unless otherwise agreed with the relevant planning authority.

(5)

Any shrub or tree planted as part of the approved plan that, within a period of 5 years after planting, is removed, dies or becomes, in the opinion of the relevant planning authority, seriously damaged or diseased, must be replaced in the first available planting season with a specimen of the same species and size as that originally planted unless otherwise agreed with the relevant planning authority.