{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/beacon-fen-energy-park-order-2026/schedule-2/paragraph-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/beacon-fen-energy-park-order-2026/schedule-2/paragraph-20.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/1025",
  "legislation_title": "The Beacon Fen Energy Park Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/beacon-fen-energy-park-order-2026",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/20",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Flood risk",
  "text": "(1) No part of the authorised development may commence until for that part, a flood mitigation strategy has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority in consultation with the Environment Agency.\n(2) The flood risk mitigation strategy submitted pursuant to sub-paragraph (1) must set out the flood risk mitigation incorporated in the detailed design for the part of the authorised development which is the subject of the strategy and—\n(a) confirm that such mitigation accords with the flood risk operational mitigation; or\n(b) to the extent such mitigation does not accord with the flood risk operational mitigation, demonstrate how the mitigation proposed does not give rise to impacts on flood risk that are worse than those set out in the flood risk assessment conclusions; and\n(c) include details of the design of any floodplain compensation scheme required for that part based on the flood risk operational mitigation and which does not give rise to impacts on flood risk and floodplain storage that are worse than those set out in the flood risk assessment conclusions.\n(3) Any strategy approved pursuant to this requirement must be implemented as approved and maintained throughout the construction and operation of the authorised development.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/1025/schedule/2/paragraph/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:54:55.261956+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."
}