The One Earth Solar Farm Order 2026

SCHEDULE 2 REQUIREMENTS

Article 3 1 In this Schedule— “part” includes a phase, part of a phase, multiple phases or multiple parts of phases; “phase” means a phase of the authorised development as set out in the written scheme approved pursuant to requirement 3; “power conversion stations” means inverters, transformers and switch gear with monitoring and control systems housed in an enclosure or enclosures mounted on metal stilts pile driven into the ground or metal skids on concrete foundations;“relevant county authority” means Lincolnshire County Council and Nottinghamshire County Council in their capacity as the county council for their respective administrative areas, and “relevant county authorities” means both Lincolnshire County Council and Nottinghamshire County Council; “relevant district authority” means Newark & Sherwood District Council, West Lindsey District Council and Bassetlaw District Council in their capacity as the district council for their respective administrative areas; “relevant planning authority” means— Lincolnshire County Council and Nottinghamshire County Council in their capacity as the local planning authority for their respective administrative areas for the purposes of— Requirements 4 (requirement for written approval), where the County Council was the relevant planning authority for the Approved Documents, Plans, Details or Schemes sought to be amended; Requirement 7 (battery safety management); Requirement 11 (drainage); Requirement 12 (archaeology); Requirement 15 (construction traffic management plan); Requirement 18 (public rights of way management plan); Requirement 19 (soil management plan); Requirement 22 (flood risk mitigation); and “solar panel” means a solar photovoltaic panel or module designed to convert solar irradiance to electrical energy; Newark & Sherwood District Council, West Lindsey District Council and Bassetlaw District Council in their capacity as the local planning authority for their respective administrative areas for the purposes of— Requirement 3 (phasing of the authorised development and date of final commissioning); Requirement 4 (requirement for written approval), where the District Council was the relevant planning authority for the Approved Documents, Plans, Details or Schemes sought to be amended; Requirement 5 (detailed design approval); Requirement 6 (community liaison group); Requirement 8 (landscape and ecology management plan); Requirement 9 (biodiversity net gain); Requirement 10 (fencing and other means of enclosure); Requirement 13 (construction environmental management plan); Requirement 14 (operational environmental management plan); Requirement 16 (operational noise); Requirement 17 (skills, supply chain and employment); Requirement 20 (decommissioning and restoration); Requirement 21 (ground conditions); and “relevant planning authorities” and “relevant planning authority” means Lincolnshire County Council, Nottinghamshire County Council, Newark & Sherwood District Council, West Lindsey District Council and Bassetlaw District Council as applicable. Where for the above requirements the approval sought relates to a part of the authorised development that is within the administrative areas of multiple relevant planning authorities, the “relevant planning authority” shall mean each of those multiple authorities. Commencement of the authorised development 2 The authorised development must not be commenced after the expiration of five years from the date this Order comes into force. Phasing of the authorised development and date of final commissioning 3 (1) The authorised development may not commence until a written scheme setting out the phase or phases of construction of the authorised development has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authorities, such approval to be in consultation with the relevant county authorities. (2) The scheme submitted and approved pursuant to sub-paragraph (1) must include a timetable for the construction of the phases of the authorised development and a plan identifying the phasing areas. (3) The scheme submitted and approved pursuant to sub-paragraph (1) must be implemented as approved. (4) Notice of the date of final commissioning with respect to each phase of Work No. 1 must be given to the relevant planning authorities for each phase within 15 working days of the date of final commissioning for that phase. Requirement for written approval 4 (1) With respect to the documents certified under article 40 (certification of plans and documents, etc) and any plans, details or schemes which have been approved pursuant to any requirement (together the “Approved Documents, Plans, Details or Schemes”), the undertaker may submit to the relevant planning authority for approval any amendments to any of the Approved Documents, Plans, Details or Schemes and, following approval by the relevant planning authority, the relevant Approved Documents, Plans, Details or Schemes is to be taken to include the amendments as so approved pursuant to this paragraph. (2) Approval under sub-paragraph (1) for the amendments to any of the Approved Documents, Plans, Details or Schemes must not be given except where it has been demonstrated to the satisfaction of the relevant planning authority that the subject matter of the approval sought is unlikely to give rise to any materially new or materially different environmental effects from those assessed in the environmental statement. Detailed design approval 5 (1) No part of Work Nos. 1 to 5 and 8 may commence until details of— (a) the layout; (b) scale; (c) proposed finished ground levels; (d) external appearance; (e) hard surfacing materials; (f) vehicular and pedestrian access, parking and circulation areas; and (g) refuse or other storage units, signs and lighting, relating to that part have been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority for that part, such approval to be in consultation with the relevant county authority for that part as local highway authority in relation to sub-paragraph (f). (2) The details submitted must accord with— (a) the outline design parameters and height parameter plan; and (b) any details approved under requirements 7 (battery safety management), 8 (landscape and ecology management plan), 10 (fencing and other means of enclosure), 11 (drainage), 12 (archaeology), 16 (operational noise), 18 (public rights of way management plan) and 22 (flood risk mitigation). (3) The authorised development must be carried out in accordance with the approved details. Community liaison group 6 (1) Prior to the commencement of the authorised development the undertaker must submit to the relevant planning authority for approval the terms of reference for a community liaison group whose aim is to facilitate liaison between representatives of people living in the vicinity of the Order limits and other relevant organisations in relation to the construction, operation and decommissioning (as relevant) of the authorised development. (2) The community liaison group must be established prior to commencement of the authorised development and must be administered by the undertaker, and operated, in accordance with the approved terms of reference. (3) The community liaison group is to continue to meet until decommissioning has been completed pursuant to the approved decommissioning environmental management plan for the final part of the authorised development to be decommissioned unless otherwise agreed with the relevant planning authority. Battery safety management 7 (1) Work No. 2 and the applicable parts of Work No. 5(g) for access to the BESS and substation compounds must not commence until a battery safety management plan has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority for that part, such approval to be in consultation with the relevant district authority for that part. (2) The battery safety management plan must be substantially in accordance with the outline battery safety management plan and demonstrate that all required access to the BESS and substation compounds is achievable and safe during the design flood event (as defined in the flood risk assessment and outline drainage strategy). (3) The relevant planning authority must consult with the Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service, the Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service and the Environment Agency before determining an application for approval of the battery safety management plan. (4) The battery safety management plan must be implemented as approved and maintained throughout the operation of the relevant part of the authorised development to which the plan relates. Landscape and ecology management plan 8 (1) No part of the authorised development may commence until a written landscape and ecology management plan has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority for that part, in consultation with the relevant county authority for that part, the Environment Agency and Natural England. (2) The landscape and ecology management plan must be substantially in accordance with the outline landscape and ecology management plan. (3) The landscape and ecology management plan must be implemented as approved and the measures contained within the plan maintained throughout the operation of the relevant part of the authorised development to which the plan relates. (4) The landscape and ecology management plan must include the commitment to regularly share all relevant pre-construction, construction, and post-construction and operational survey and monitoring data in the appropriate formats with the relevant Local Environmental Records Centre(s) and relevant national and regional environmental recording schemes. (5) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), “commence” includes part (h) (site clearance (including vegetation removal, demolition of existing structures or buildings) and part (j) (advanced planting to allow for early establishment of mitigation including for sky lark) of the permitted preliminary works. Biodiversity net gain 9 (1) No part of the authorised development may commence until a biodiversity net gain strategy for that part has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority, in consultation with the relevant statutory nature conservation body. (2) The biodiversity net gain strategy must include details of how the strategy will secure a minimum of 50% biodiversity net gain in area-based habitat units, a minimum of 50% biodiversity net gain in hedgerow units, and a minimum of 10% biodiversity net gain in watercourse units for all of the authorised development during the operation of the authorised development, using the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ Statutory Biodiversity Metric to calculate those percentages (or such other biodiversity metric approved by the relevant planning authority in consultation with the relevant statutory nature conservation body). (3) The biodiversity net gain strategy must be substantially in accordance with the outline landscape and ecology management plan and must be implemented as approved and maintained throughout the operation of the relevant part of the authorised development to which the plan relates. Fencing and other means of enclosure 10 (1) No part of the authorised development may commence until written details of all proposed fences, walls or other means of enclosure for the construction of that part, including those set out in the construction environmental management plan, have been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority for that part. (2) Prior to the date of final commissioning for any part of the authorised development, written details of all fences, walls or other means of enclosure for the operation of that part have been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority. (3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), “commence” includes any permitted preliminary works except for parts (a) (environmental surveys, geotechnical surveys, intrusive archaeological surveys and other investigations for the purpose of assessing ground conditions) and (d) (remedial work in respect of any contamination or other adverse ground conditions) of the permitted preliminary works. (4) The written details provided under sub-paragraph (2) must be substantially in accordance with the relevant outline design parameters. (5) Any construction site must remain securely fenced in accordance with the approved details under sub-paragraph (1) at all times during construction of the authorised development. (6) Any fencing approved under sub-paragraph (1) for the purposes of construction only must be removed on completion of the construction of the part of the authorised development for which it was used. (7) Any fencing approved under sub-paragraph (2) for a part of the authorised development must be completed before the date of final commissioning of that part and must be properly maintained for the operational lifetime of the part of the authorised development. Drainage 11 (1) No part of the authorised development may commence until written details of the drainage management plan for that part have been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority for that part, such approval to be in consultation with Anglian Water and the Environment Agency. (2) The written details under sub-paragraph (1) must be substantially in accordance with the flood risk assessment and outline drainage strategy. (3) Any approved scheme must be implemented as approved and maintained throughout the construction and operation of the authorised development. Archaeology 12 (1) No part of the authorised development may commence until for that part— (a) an archaeological mitigation strategy has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority in consultation with Historic England; (b) any additional trial trenching required pursuant to the approved archaeological mitigation strategy to inform the approach to mitigation has been carried out in accordance with the outline written scheme of investigation and the approved archaeological mitigation strategy; and (c) where additional trial trenching to inform the approach to mitigation has been undertaken under sub-paragraph (b) updates are made to the archaeological mitigation strategy approved under sub-paragraph (b) to account for the results of the additional trial trenching carried out and such updated archaeological mitigation strategy has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority in consultation with Historic England. (2) The archaeological mitigation strategy under sub-paragraph (1)(a) must be substantially in accordance with the outline written scheme of investigation. (3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), “commence” includes any permitted preliminary works except that part (a) of the permitted preliminary works is only included with respect to intrusive archaeological surveys. (4) Any approved archaeological mitigation strategy (whether pursuant to sub-paragraph (1)(a) or (1)(c)) must be implemented as approved and maintained throughout the construction, operation and decommissioning of the authorised development and any archaeological works or watching brief must be carried out in accordance with the approved strategy. Construction environmental management plan 13 (1) No part of the authorised development may commence until a construction environmental management plan for that part has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority for that part, such approval to be in consultation with the relevant county authority for that part as the local highway authority and waste planning authority, the Environment Agency, and Anglian Water in relation to water resources. (2) The construction environmental management plan must be substantially in accordance with the outline construction environmental management plan. (3) All construction works associated with the authorised development must be carried out in accordance with the approved construction environmental management plan. (4) The construction management plan must include a commitment to regularly share all relevant pre-construction, construction, post-construction and operation survey and monitoring data in the appropriate formats with the relevant Local Environmental Records Centre(s) and relevant national and regional recording schemes. (5) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), “commence” includes part (d) (remedial works in respect of any contamination or other adverse ground conditions) and part (i) (Work No. 7 (works to facilitate access to Work Nos. 1 to 6 and 8)) of the permitted preliminary works. Operational environmental management plan 14 (1) Prior to the date of final commissioning for any part of the authorised development, an operational environmental management plan for that part must be submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority for that part, such approval to be in consultation with the relevant county authority for that part, as the local highway authority and waste planning authority, the Environment Agency, and Anglian Water in relation to water resources. (2) The operational environmental management plan must be substantially in accordance with the outline operational environmental management plan. (3) The operational environmental management plan must be implemented as approved and maintained throughout the operation of the relevant part of the authorised development to which the plan relates. Construction traffic management plan 15 (1) No part of the authorised development may commence until a construction traffic management plan for that part has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority, such approval to be in consultation with the relevant district authority for that part. (2) The construction traffic management plan must be substantially in accordance with the outline construction traffic management plan. (3) All construction works associated with the authorised development must be carried out in accordance with the approved construction traffic management plan. (4) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), “commence” includes part (i) (Work No. 7 (works to facilitate access to Work Nos. 1 to 6 and 8)) of the permitted preliminary works. Operational noise 16 (1) No part of Work Nos. 1 to 3 may commence until an operational noise assessment containing details of how the design of that numbered work has incorporated mitigation to ensure the operational noise rating levels secured in the outline design parameters are complied with for that part has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority for that part. (2) The design as described in the operational noise assessment must be implemented as approved and maintained throughout the operation of the relevant part of the authorised development to which the plan relates. Skills, supply chain and employment 17 (1) No part of the authorised development may commence until a skills, supply chain and employment plan in relation to that part has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority for that part, such approval to be in consultation with the relevant county authority for that part. (2) The skills, supply chain and employment plan must be substantially in accordance with the outline skills, supply chain and employment plan. (3) The skills, supply chain and employment plan must identify opportunities for individuals and businesses to access employment and supply chain opportunities associated with that part of the authorised development to which the plan relates and the means for publicising such opportunities. (4) The skills, supply chain and employment plan must be implemented as approved and maintained throughout the construction and operation of the authorised development. Public rights of way management plan 18 (1) No part of the authorised development may commence until a public rights of way management plan for any sections of public rights of way shown to be temporarily closed, diverted or managed on the streets, rights of way and access plans for that part has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority for that part. (2) The public rights of way management plan must be substantially in accordance with the outline public rights of way management plan. (3) The public rights of way management plan must be implemented as approved and maintained throughout the construction and operation of the relevant part of the authorised development to which the plan relates. Soil management plan 19 (1) No part of the authorised development may commence until a soil management plan for that part has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority for that part. (2) The soil management plan must be substantially in accordance with the outline soil management plan. (3) The soil management plan must be implemented as approved and maintained throughout the construction, operation and decommissioning of the relevant part of the authorised development to which the plan relates. Decommissioning and restoration 20 (1) The date of decommissioning— (a) with respect to each phase of Work No. 1 must be no later than 60 years following the date of final commissioning as notified to the relevant planning authority pursuant to requirement 3; and (b) with respect to the associated development in Work Nos. 2 to 8 must be no later than the date of decommissioning for the phase of Work No. 1 to which such associated development relates, and where such associated development relates to more than one phase of Work No. 1 must be no later than the latest date of decommissioning of the phases of Work No. 1 to which such associated development relates. (2) Unless otherwise agreed with the relevant planning authority, no later than 12 months prior to the date the undertaker intends to decommission any part of the authorised development, the undertaker must notify the relevant planning authority of the intended date of decommissioning for that part of the authorised development. (3) Unless otherwise agreed with the relevant planning authority, no later than ten weeks prior to the intended date of decommissioning of any part of the authorised development notified pursuant to sub-paragraph (2), the undertaker must submit to the relevant planning authority a decommissioning environmental management plan for approval. (4) The decommissioning environmental management plan must be substantially in accordance with the outline decommissioning environmental management plan and must include a timetable for its implementation. (5) No decommissioning works may be carried out until the relevant planning authority has approved the decommissioning environmental management plan submitted in relation to those works, in consultation with the relevant county authority for those works in its capacity as the local highway authority and waste planning authority, the Environment Agency, Natural England, and Anglian Water in relation to water resources. (6) The decommissioning environmental management plan must be implemented as approved. (7) This requirement is without prejudice to any other consents or permissions that may be required to decommission any part of the authorised development. Ground conditions 21 (1) No part of the authorised development is to commence in the area around the High Marnham power station as shown hatched blue on the land and soils constraints plan included in the preliminary risk assessment at appendix 8.2 to chapter 8 of the environmental statement (“the area for site investigation”), until— (a) a Phase 2 site investigation and risk assessment methodology to assess the nature and extent of any contamination specifically located in the area for site investigation has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority in consultation with the Environment Agency; (b) unless otherwise agreed in writing with the relevant planning authority, any Phase 2 site investigation and risk assessment for the area for site investigation has been completed in accordance with the methodology approved pursuant to sub-paragraph (a) and a written report including a remedial options appraisal, if required, has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority in consultation with the Environment Agency; (c) unless otherwise agreed in writing with the relevant planning authority, a detailed remediation strategy that includes proposals (including any phasing) for remedial works and verification for such works for the area for site investigation has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority in consultation with the Environment Agency; (2) If, during the carrying out of any part of the authorised development, contamination not previously identified is found to be present within such part, no further development (unless otherwise agreed in writing with the relevant planning authority) must be carried out on the part on which the contamination has been found until a remediation strategy detailing how such contamination must be dealt with has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority in consultation with the Environment Agency. (3) The authorised development must be carried out in accordance with the strategy approved pursuant to sub-paragraph (1)(c). (4) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), “commence” includes part (d) (remedial work in respect of any contamination or other adverse ground conditions) and part (e) (diversion of existing services and the laying of temporary services) of the permitted preliminary works. Flood risk mitigation 22 (1) No part of the authorised development shall commence until, for that part, the flood risk mitigation detailed design has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority, in consultation with the Environment Agency. (2) The flood risk mitigation detailed design pursuant to sub-paragraph (1) to include— (a) the layout of the proposed development and any proposed flood risk mitigation (b) the layout of solar panel and power conversion stations to be sited within the design flood event (as defined in the flood risk assessment and outline drainage strategy) and associated updated volumetric loss calculations based on the flood mitigation detailed design; and (c) details of the lowest point of all solar panels and power conversion stations (excluding any mounting structure)) and confirmation that all solar panels and power conversion stations are above the design flood event (as defined in the flood risk assessment and outline drainage strategy). (3) The flood risk mitigation detailed design must substantially accord with the flood risk assessment and outline drainage strategy.