East Anglia ONE Offshore Windfarm Landscape Management PlanWork No 38 to 41
August, 2016
5.3 Preparation for Planting 5.3.1 Site Clearance
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Prior to cultivation all rubbish will be removed from the site, recycled where possible or taken offsite. All weeds, grass and residual crops will be cleared from planting areas.
5.3.2 Cultivation 69.
No digging will take place within the root spread of trees or hedgerows to be retained. Compacted topsoil will be broken up to its full depth.
70.
5.3.3 Hedgerow and woodland area cultivation Cultivation will comply with the following:
Topsoil will be cultivated to a depth of 600mm using suitable tools or machinery to ensure a firm friable tilth suitable for pit planting.
Topsoil will be cultivated in two perpendicular directions to ‘cross-rip’ through any clay pans present. Topsoil surface will be left regular and even. All weeds, perennial weed roots, turfs of grass, roots and other material will be removed, including stones and clods of earth greater than 50mm in any direction, which have been brought to the surface.
5.3.4 Sowing grasses 71. Sowing grasses will comply with the following:
Weeds and grass will be cleared from site Soil will be cultivated to a depth of 30mm using suitable tools or machinery, burying remaining vegetation. Soil will be harrowed and rolled to produce fine tilth and firm surface. The sowing area will be free from large ruts and stones to allow for mowing later.
5.4 Planting and Seeding 5.4.1 Plant handling, storage and transportation
72. The following will be undertaken during planting handling, storage and transportation:
Comply with CPSE ‘Handling and establishing landscape plants’ (obtainable form the Horticultural Trades Association) Part I, Part II and Part III.
Protect plants from frost. Handle plants with care, protect from mechanical damage and do not subject to shock, e.g. dropping from a vehicle.
5.4.2 Planting hedgerows and tree transplants 73. The following will be undertaken during planting of hedgerows and trees:
All plants will be pit planted. Pits will be excavated to sufficient extents to allow roots of bare roots plants to be spread out or the root ball of container grown plants to be accommodated without distortion to their shape and size.
Excavated topsoil will be retained and appropriately stored for back-filling. Hedgerow plants will be spaced out evenly to create double staggered row following spacings specified on the plant schedule.
Plants will be placed in the centre of the planting pit with their main stem vertical and at such a depth that after planting firmed down soil is at the same level as the existing ground level.
Back-fill will be carefully and thoroughly packed around plant roots or root ball and firmed in by heeling around the base of the stem.
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