The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 No. 1154

SCHEDULE 25 Flood risk activities and excluded flood risk activities

PART 2 Excluded flood risk activities

SECTION 2 Descriptions and conditions

Site investigation boreholes and trial pits

13.—(1) Site investigation boreholes and trial pits within a flood plain.

(2) For the purposes of this paragraph, the specific conditions are—

(a) the works are more than 5 metres from any culvert, remote defence or flood defence structure on the main river and from any sea defence,

(b) the works are more than 8 metres from the banks of a non-tidal main river,

(c) the works are more than 16 metres from the banks of a tidal main river, and

(d) the works are completed, including refilling of the borehole or pit, within 48 hours.