{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cory-decarbonisation-project-order-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-18",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1227",
  "legislation_title": "The Cory Decarbonisation Project Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cory-decarbonisation-project-order-2025",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/18",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Flood risk mitigation",
  "text": "(1) The authorised development must be carried out and operated in accordance with paragraphs 8.3.20 to 8.3.33 and 8.6.9 of the flood risk assessment.\n(2) No later than 45 years following the date of final commissioning, the undertaker must notify the relevant planning authority and the Environment Agency whether it anticipates that the operation of Work No. 1 will continue past the 50th anniversary of the date of final commissioning.\n(3) If a notification under sub-paragraph (2) indicates that the undertaker anticipates that the operation of Work No. 1 will continue past the 50th anniversary date of final commissioning, it must, unless otherwise agreed by the Environment Agency, submit for written approval to the Environment Agency—\n(a) an updated flood risk assessment of the flood risk arising from the continued operation of Work No. 1 past the 50th anniversary of the date of final commissioning;\n(b) the details of any mitigation or compensation measures that the flood risk assessment under sub-paragraph (a) suggests are necessary;\n(c) the implementation timetable (including identifying the need for (but not requiring a specific programme for the obtaining of) any consents) for any measures identified under sub-paragraph (b); and\n(d) retention proposals for any measures identified under sub-paragraph (b).\n(4) The undertaker must share the details approved by the Environment Agency under sub-paragraph (3) with the relevant planning authority within 5 days of such approval being given.\n(5) The undertaker must implement the measures approved under sub-paragraph (3)(b) in accordance with the implementation timetable approved under sub-paragraph (3)(c) no later than the 50th anniversary of the date of final commissioning of Work No. 1 or such other time period as is agreed with the Environment Agency and must retain them for the lifetime of Work No. 1 in accordance with the retention proposals approved under sub-paragraph (3)(d).\n(6) The undertaker must not continue operation of Work No. 1 beyond the 50th anniversary of the date of final commissioning unless the Environment Agency has given its approval under sub-paragraph (3) and the undertaker has complied with sub-paragraph (4), unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Environment Agency.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 18 in force at 27.11.2025, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1227/schedule/2/paragraph/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:09:19.424447+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."
}