SCHEDULE 15PROTECTIVE PROVISIONS

PART 9FOR THE PROTECTION OF ESSEX AND SUFFOLK WATER

99.

In this Part of this Schedule—

“alternative apparatus” means alternative apparatus adequate to enable ESW to fulfil its statutory functions in not less efficient a manner than previously;

“apparatus” means the following items belonging to or maintained by ESW within the Order limits-

  1. (i)

    mains, pipes, wells, boreholes, tanks, service reservoirs, pumping stations or other apparatus, structures, tunnels, shafts or treatment works or accessories (as defined in section 219(1) of the Water Industry Act 1991) belonging to or maintained or used by ESW for the purposes of water supply; and

  2. (ii)

    any water mains, or service pipes which are the subject of a notice of intention to adopt under section 51A of the Water Industry Act 1991;

“ESW” means Northumbrian Water Limited, t/a Essex and Suffolk Water, company number 02366703, whose registered office is at Northumbria House, Abbey Road, Pity Me, Durham, DH1 5FJ;

“functions” includes powers and duties;

“in” in a context referring to apparatus or alternative apparatus in land includes a reference to apparatus or alternative apparatus under, over or upon land;

“plan” includes sections, drawings, specifications and method statements and drawings submitted for approval must include a plan to the scale of 1:500 based on the ordnance survey to locate the work in question, and plans and sections to a scale of between 1:200 to 1:25 to give details of the work in question; and

“specified work” means so much of the authorised development as is in, on, under, over or within the standard protection strips; and

“the standard protection strips” means strips of land falling the following distances to either side of the medial line of any relevant pipe or apparatus—

(a)

3 metres where the internal diameter of the pipe is less than 300 millimetres;

(b)

4.5 metres where the internal diameter of the pipe is over 300 and up to and including 600 millimetres; and

(c)

6 metres where the internal diameter of the pipe exceeds 600 millimetres

unless otherwise agreed.