The Thames Water Utilities Limited (Thames Tideway Tunnel) Order 2014

PART 1GENERAL

Interpretation

1.  In this licence—

(a)“the 2008 Act” means the Planning Act 2008;

“the 2009 Act” means the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009;

“the authorised project” has the meaning given in paragraph 3(2);

“business day” means a day other than a Saturday or Sunday or bank holiday in England;

“COCP Part A” means the Code of Construction Practice Part A— General Controls (document reference number APP205.01);

“COCP Part B” means the Code of Construction Practice Part B— Site Specific Requirements (document reference number APP178.03 to 178.49);

“commence” means beginning to carry out any part of a licensed activity and “commenced” and “commencement” shall be construed accordingly;

“condition” means a condition in Part 2 of this licence and references in this licence to numbered conditions are to the condition with those numbers in Part 2;

“environmental statement” means the environmental statement with document reference 6.2 together with the list of Errata to that environmental statement with document references 9.04.01, 9.04.04, 9.04.05 and APP123, and the environmental statement update report (March 2014) with document reference APP208.01, submitted by Thames Water Utilities Limited to support its application for development consent for the authorised project;

“the licence holder” means Thames Water Utilities Limited and any transferee pursuant to Article 9 of the Order;

“licensed activity” means the activities specified in Part 1 of this licence;

“marine area” has the meaning given to ‘UK marine area’ in section 42 of the 2009 Act;

“MMO” means the Marine Management Organisation;

“the Order” means the Thames Water Utilities Limited (Thames Tideway Tunnel) Order 2014;

“plans and sections” includes sections, cross-sections, elevations, drawings, specifications, programmes, calculations, method statements, piling method statements, assessments of navigational risk and hydraulic information relating to the construction, carrying out and, where appropriate, removal of any licensed activity;

“River” means so much of the river Thames, the Thames estuary, rivers, streams, creeks, watercourses and the sea as is within the Port of London Authority’s limits as described in paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the Port of London Act 1968;

“scour and accretion monitoring and mitigation plan” means a plan drawn up detailing the monitoring and mitigation proposals for each specified work prepared in accordance with the scour and accretion monitoring and mitigation strategy;

“scour and accretion monitoring and mitigation strategy” means the scour and accretion monitoring and mitigation strategy for the licensed activities in the foreshore to be submitted to the MMO in accordance with the principles set out in the four way legal agreement between Thames Water Utilities Limited, the Port of London Authority, the Environment Agency and the Marine Management Organisation dated 3rd March 2014 (as amended 7th August 2014) (APP 183) including, but not limited to, results and clarification of existing and further works and the extent, frequency, and form of the monitoring and mitigation for scour and accretion;

“site” means any site where the licensed activities will be undertaken as defined in the Order being:

  • Putney Embankment Foreshore;

  • Carnwath Road Riverside;

  • Dormay Street;

  • Cremorne Wharf Depot;

  • Chelsea Embankment Foreshore;

  • Kirtling Street;

  • Heathwall Pumping Station;

  • Albert Embankment Foreshore;

  • Victoria Embankment Foreshore;

  • Blackfriars Bridge Foreshore;

  • Chambers Wharf;

  • Greenwich Pumping Station;

  • King Edward memorial Park Foreshore; and

  • Abbey Mills Pumping Station.

Contacts

2.—(1) Except where otherwise indicated, the main point of contact with the MMO and the address for email and postal returns and correspondence shall be—

Marine Management Organisation

Inshore Marine Licensing Team

Lancaster House

Hampshire Court

Newcastle upon Tyne

NE4 7YH

Tel— 0300 123 1032

Fax— 0191 376 2681

Email—infrastructure@marinemanagement.org.uk

(2) The contact details for the MMO Marine Pollution Response Team are—

Tel (during office hours)— 0870 785 1050

Tel (outside office hours)— 07770 977 825

Email—dispersants@marinemanagement.org.uk

or such replacement contact details notified to the licence holder in writing by the MMO.

Details of Licensed Marine Activities

3.—(1) Subject to the licence conditions in Part 2, this licence authorises the licence holder (and any agent, contractor or subcontractor acting on their behalf) to carry out any licensable marine activities under section 66(1) of the 2009 Act which—

(a)form part of, or are related to, the authorised project; and

(b)are not exempt from requiring a marine licence by virtue of any provision made under section 74 of the 2009 Act.

(2) In this paragraph “the authorised project” means—

(a)the development and associated development described in Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Order, and any other development authorised by articles 21 (remedial works to buildings, or apparatus or equipment) and 42 (statutory undertakers) of the Order, which is development within the meaning of section 32 of the 2008 Act; and

(b)the ancillary works described in Part 2 of Schedule 1 (authorised project) of the Order, and any other works authorised by the Order which are not development within the meaning of section 32 of the 2008 Act.