# The Beacon Fen Energy Park Order 2026, Paragraph 195: Interpretation


In this Part of this Schedule
“apparatus” means the battery energy storage or other infrastructure owned, occupied or maintained by Bicker Drove on the Bicker Drove land for the purposes of the Bicker Drove Project;
“authorised works” has the same meaning as is given to the term “authorised development” in article 2(1) (interpretation) of this Order and includes any associated development authorised by the Order and for the purposes of this Schedule includes the use and maintenance of the authorised works and construction of any works authorised by this Part of this Schedule;
“Bicker Drove” means Bicker Drove Limited (company number 15674780) whose registered office address is at 20 St. James’s Street, 7th Floor, London, United Kingdom, SW1A 1ES;
“Bicker Drove interface area” means the area notified by the undertaker to Bicker Drove in accordance with paragraph 4;
“Bicker Drove land” means the land over which UK Transition Power Holdings Limited or Bicker Drove hold an interest and which is contained within the Order limits;
“Bicker Drove Project” means the proposed 1.2GW Battery Energy Storage System development subject to planning application reference B/25/0224 located on land near Boston, Lincolnshire;
“Bicker Drove stand-off area” means the Bicker Drove land within the Order limits, other than the Bicker Drove interface area;
“ground monitoring scheme” means a scheme for monitoring ground subsidence which sets out the apparatus which is to be subject to such monitoring, the extent of land to be monitored, the manner in which ground levels are to be monitored, the timescales of any monitoring activities and the extent of ground subsidence which, if exceeded, is to require the undertaker to submit for Bicker Drove’s approval a ground mitigation scheme;
“ground subsidence event” means any ground subsidence identified by the monitoring activities set out in the ground monitoring scheme that has exceeded the level described in the ground monitoring scheme as requiring a ground mitigation scheme;
“in” in a context referring to apparatus or alternative apparatus in land includes a reference to apparatus or alternative apparatus under, over, across, along or upon such land;
“maintain” and “maintenance” shall include the ability and right to do any of the following in relation to any apparatus or alternative apparatus of Bicker Drove; construct, use, repair, inspect, renew or remove the apparatus;
“plan” and “plans” includes sections, drawings, specifications, designs, design data, software, soil reports, calculations, descriptions (including descriptions of methods of construction), staging proposals, programmes and details of the extent, timing and duration of any proposed occupation of the Bicker Drove interface area or Bicker Drove stand-off area (as applicable);
“specified works” means so much of any works or operations authorised by this Order (or authorised by any planning permission intended to operate in conjunction with this Order) as is will or may be situated over, or within 15 metres measured in any direction of any apparatus of Bicker Drove and within the Bicker Drove interface area or Bicker Drove stand-off area (as applicable); and
“The Bicker Drove Planning Permission” means the planning permission granted by Boston Borough Council on 29 June 2026 for the Proposed installation and operation of a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) and other ancillary and associated infrastructure at Land East of Bicker Fen substation, Bicker Fen, Boston, under the Application Reference: B/25/0224.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/1025/schedule/11/paragraph/195 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/beacon-fen-energy-park-order-2026/schedule-11/paragraph-195
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