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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/a1-birtley-to-coal-house-development-consent-order-2021/schedule-2/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/a1-birtley-to-coal-house-development-consent-order-2021/schedule-2/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2021/74",
  "legislation_title": "The A1 Birtley to Coal House Development Consent Order 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/a1-birtley-to-coal-house-development-consent-order-2021",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Contaminated land and groundwater",
  "text": "(1) In the event that contaminated land, including groundwater, is found at any time when carrying out the authorised development which was not previously identified in the environmental statement, it must be reported as soon as reasonably practicable to the Secretary of State, the relevant planning authority and the Environment Agency, and the undertaker must complete a risk assessment of the contamination in consultation with the relevant planning authority and the Environment Agency.\n(2) Where the undertaker determines that remediation of the contaminated land is necessary, a written scheme and programme for the remedial measures to be taken to render the land fit for its intended purpose must be submitted to and approved in writing by the Secretary of State, following consultation with the relevant planning authority on matters related to its function and the Environment Agency.\n(3) A suitable capping layer, comprising either 400mm layer of “clean” soil or a shallow thickness with a geotextile marker layer, will be constructed in any areas of soft landscape planting located over areas of made ground contaminated with asbestos. The details of any such capping layers shall be included within any remedial measures required in terms of sub-paragraph (2).\n(4) Remediation must be carried out in accordance with the approved scheme.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 6 in force at 9.2.2021, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/74/schedule/2/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:18:09.438555+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}