The National Grid (Hinkley Point C Connection Project) Order 2016

73.—(1) The undertaker must give the Agency at least 28 days’ written notice of any intention to use any bank of a main river, drainage work, river-control work or land within 8 metres of the bank or work for the purpose of depositing, stacking, storing or keeping any rubbish, goods, any materials or things whatsoever adjacent to it.

(2) The Agency must either consent (with or without conditions) or object to the notice.

(3) If within 14 days, no response is given, the Agency is deemed to have consented to the notice as submitted.

(4) The undertaker must take all reasonable care in depositing, stacking, storing or keeping any rubbish, goods, materials or things upon any drainage work not to cause damage to the drainage work and must take all reasonable care to minimise the risk of objects or matter entering or falling into a main river such as to cause an obstruction.

(5) If entry of an object or matter into a main river occurs, it must, except with consent of the Agency, be removed promptly by the undertaker.