PART 1Preliminary
Interpretation2.
(1)
In this Order—
“the 2008 Act” means the Planning Act 2008;
“AGI” means Above Ground Installation;
“AGI plan” means the plan certified as the AGI plan by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order;
“AGI site” means the land coloured green on sheet 2 of the works plan and shown on the AGI plan and comprising Works No. 5, 6 and 7;
“authorised development” means the development and associated development described in Part 1 of Schedule 1 (authorised development) and any other development authorised by this Order, which is development within the meaning of section 32 of the 2008 Act;
“book of reference” means the book of reference certified by the Secretary of State as the book of reference for the purposes of this Order;
“building” includes any structure or erection or any part of a building, structure or erection;
“carriageway” has the same meaning as in the 1980 Act;
“commence” means to carry out within the Order limits any material operation (as defined in section 155 of the 2008 Act) forming part of the authorised development, other than operations consisting of the removal, diversion and laying of services, and “commencement” is to be construed accordingly;
“Crown land plan” means the plan certified as the Crown land plan by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order;
“environmental statement” means the document certified as the environmental statement by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order;
“flood risk assessment addendum” means the document certified as the flood risk assessment addendum by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order;
“highway” and “highway authority” have the same meaning as in the 1980 Act;
“Highways England” means Highways England Company Limited (company registration number 9346363) whose registered office is at Bridge House, 1 Walnut Tree Close, Guildford, Surrey GU1 4LZ or its successor from time to time as the strategic highways company for England;
“historic environment plan” means the plan certified as the historic environment plan by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order;
“important hedgerows plan” means the plan certified as the important hedgerows plan by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order;
“land plans” means the plans certified as the land plan by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order;
“limits of deviation” means the limits of deviation referred to in article 6 (limits of deviation);
“maintain” includes, to the extent assessed in the environmental statement, to inspect, maintain, adjust, alter, repair, test, cleanse, re-lay, divert, make safe, decommission, reconstruct, demolish, abandon, replace, remove and improve the authorised development or any part of it; and any derivative of “maintain” shall be construed accordingly;
“National Grid Gas” means National Grid Gas plc (company registration no. 02006000) or any successor company performing the same function;
“nature conservation plan” means the plan certified as the nature conservation plan by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order;
“Order land” means the land shown on the land plans which is within the limits of land to be acquired and described in the book of reference;
“Order limits” means the limits shown on the works plan within which the authorised development may be carried out;
“outline construction environmental management plan” means the document certified as the outline construction environmental management plan by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order;
“outline construction traffic management plan” means the document certified as the outline construction traffic management plan by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order;
“outline public rights of way plan” means the document certified as the outline public rights of way plan by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order;
“pipe dump plan” means the plan certified as the pipe dump plan by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order;
“pipeline works” means Works No. 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 31, 33, 34, 35, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60, 62, 63, 64, 65, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 83, 84, 85, 87, 89, 90, 91, 92, 94, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 107, 109, 110, 111, 113, 114, 115, 118, 119, 121, 122 and 123 as described in Part 1 of Schedule 1 (authorised development);
“public rights of way plan” means the plan certified as the public rights of way plan by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order;
“relevant highway authority” means Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council, East Riding of Yorkshire Council or North Yorkshire County Council, as appropriate, for the area in which the relevant highway to which the relevant provision of this Order applies is situated, or any successors to their statutory functions and, in the case of trunk roads, means the Secretary of State for Transport;
“relevant planning authority” means Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council, East Riding of Yorkshire Council or Selby District Council, as appropriate, for the area in which the land to which the relevant provision of this Order applies is situated or any successors to their statutory functions;
“Requirements” means those matters set out in Part 2 of Schedule 1 (Requirements);
“runway 07/25” means the runway identified as runway 07/25 on the runway plan;
“runway plan” means the plan certified as the runway plan by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order;
“statutory undertaker” means any person falling within section 127(8) of the 2008 Act;
“street” means a street within the meaning of section 48 of the 1991 Act, together with land on the verge of a street or between two carriageways, and includes part of a street;
“street authority”, in relation to a street, has the same meaning as in Part 3 of the 1991 Act;
“temporary compounds” means Works No. 1, 3, 8, 16, 18, 21, 22, 25, 29, 32, 36, 42, 52, 56, 61, 66, 82, 88, 93, 106, 108, 112, 116 and 120 as described in Part 1 of Schedule 1 (authorised development);
“Thorpe Marsh Power Limited” means Thorpe Marsh Power Limited (company registration number 06637894) whose registered office is at Carlton House, 4 Ellerbeck Way, Stokesley Business Park, Stokesley, North Yorkshire TS9 5JZ;
“tree preservation order” has the meaning given in section 198 of the 1990 Act;
“tribunal” means the Lands Chamber of the Upper Tribunal;
“undertaker” means Thorpe Marsh Power Limited (company registration number 06637894);
“watercourse” includes all rivers, streams, ditches, drains, canals, cuts, culverts, dykes, sluices, sewers and passages through which water flows except a public sewer or drain;
“working width” means the land coloured blue and yellow and labelled “working width” on the works plan;
“works plan” means the plan certified as the works plan by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order.
(2)
References in this Order to rights over land include references to rights to do or to place and maintain, anything in, on or under land or in the air-space above its surface.
(3)
All distances, directions and lengths referred to in this Order are approximate and distances between points on a work comprised in the authorised development are to be taken to be measured along that work.
(4)
All areas described in the book of reference are approximate.
(5)
Any reference in this Order to a work identified by the number of the work is to be construed as a reference to the work of that number authorised by this Order, described in Part 1 of Schedule 1.
(6)
The expression “includes” is to be construed without limitation.