Climate Contract Playbook Edition 3
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1. Developers 2. Landscape architects 3. Landscape Institute 4. Contractors 5. Commercial landlords 6. Tenants 7. Local authorities – particularly in relation to zoning/ planning 8. Wildlife and environmental groups 9. Urban beekeepers and other interested community groups.
Stakeholders
This clause is intended to be used in landscape architect appointments and/or building contracts. To be fully effective this should be developed in line with the development of laws/ planning regulations around habitat ‘zoning’ to encourage habitat continuity and species corridors across the landscape.
Application
It is acknowledged that the clause will need to be updated as and when the Environment Bill is passed. This clause is designed to be adopted in advance and independent of those provisions.
This clause would be subject to compliance with any relevant conditions/ obligations on the planning permission or section 106 agreement. There will usually be a landscaping scheme approved under a planning condition which will need to be complied with. Key issues to consider would be: • site preparation – retaining as much of the native planting/topsoil as possible during the preparation phase; • water course management – disruptions to natural flow of water across a site can have long term effects both downstream and onsite (i.e. increasing flooding risk); • sustainable building – prevention of pollutants either damaging remaining habitats or landscaping; • minimising hard standing to allow for water percolation and soak across a site; • planting – should as far as possible utilise native species to provide suitable habitats and should be complementary to nearby sites to allow for species movement; and • planting should also be used to assist in building energy usage/air quality and dealing with run-off – for large sites a pain/gain mechanism may be suitable. Services and Employer’s Requirements should also have standardised clauses that can be inserted to cover site specific requirements. The Drafting assumes definitions from the wider contract are used and would have to be cross referenced. Clause 1.2 assumes a corresponding clause would be inserted in all consultant appointments and the building contract as required.
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