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Conditions or Reasons for Planning Application - CB/26/00375/NMA
Conditions or Reasons:
15) No development shall take place until a construction environmental management plan (CEMP): Biodiversity has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

The CEMP: Biodiversity shall include the following.
a) Risk assessment of potentially damaging construction activities including amphibians.
b) Identification of "biodiversity protection zones".
c) Practical measures (both physical measures and sensitive working practices) to avoid or reduce impacts during construction (may be provided as a set of method statements).
d) The location and timing of sensitive works to avoid harm to biodiversity features.
e) The times during construction when specialist ecologists need to be present on site to oversee works.
f) Responsible persons and lines of communication.
g) The role and responsibilities on site of an ecological clerk of works (ECoW) or similarly competent person.
h) Use of protective fences, exclusion barriers and warning signs.

The approved CEMP: Biodiversity shall be adhered to and implemented throughout the construction period strictly in accordance with the approved details, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the local planning authority.

Reason: To conserve and enhance protected and Priority species and allow the LPA to discharge its duties under the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 (as amended), the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981 as amended and s40 of the NERC Act 2006 (Priority habitats & species).
(Policy EE3, CBLP and Section 15, NPPF)


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