The West Burton Solar Project Order 2025

93.  In this Part—

“construction” includes execution, placing, altering, replacing, relaying and removal; and “construct” and “constructed” must be construed accordingly.

“the Board” means Scunthorpe and Gainsborough Internal Drainage Board, Upper Witham Internal Drainage Board or Trent Valley Internal Drainage Board (as applicable);

“drainage work” means any ordinary watercourse and includes any land that provides or is expected to provide flood storage capacity for any ordinary watercourse and any bank, wall, embankment or other structure, or any appliance, constructed or used for land drainage or flood defence;

“Internal Drainage District” has the meaning given in the Land Drainage Act 1991(1);

“ordinary watercourse” has the meaning given in section 72 (Interpretation) of the Land Drainage Act 1991;

“plans” includes sections, drawings, specifications and method statements;

“evidence” includes hydraulic modelling, infiltration test results and geotechnical evaluations; and

“specified work” means so much of any work or operation authorised by this Order as is in, on, under, over or within 9 metres of a drainage work within the Board’s Internal Drainage District or is otherwise likely to—

(a)

affect any drainage work within the Board’s Internal Drainage District;

(b)

affect the total volume or volumetric rate of flow of water in or flowing to or from any drainage work within the Board’s Internal Drainage District;

(c)

affect the flow of water in any drainage work within the Board’s Internal Drainage District; or

(d)

affect the conservation, distribution or use of water resources.

(1)

1991 c. 59.