{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/green-hill-solar-farm-order-2026/article-17",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/1074",
  "legislation_title": "The Green Hill Solar Farm Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/green-hill-solar-farm-order-2026",
  "path": "article/17",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Discharge of water",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (3), (4) and (9) the undertaker may use any watercourse or any public sewer or drain for the drainage of water in connection with the construction or maintenance or decommissioning of the authorised development and for that purpose may lay down, take up and alter pipes and may, on any land within the Order limits, make openings into, and connections with, the watercourse, public sewer or drain.\n(2) Any dispute arising from the making of connections to or the use of a public sewer or drain by the undertaker under paragraph (1) is to be determined as if it were a dispute under section 106 (right to communicate with public sewers) of the Water Industry Act 1991.\n(3) The undertaker must not discharge any water into any watercourse, public sewer or drain except with the consent of the person to whom it belongs whose consent may be given subject to terms and conditions as that person may reasonably impose.\n(4) The undertaker must not make any opening into any public sewer or drain except—\n(a) in accordance with plans approved by the person to whom the sewer or drain belongs; and\n(b) where that person has been given the opportunity to supervise the making of the opening.\n(5) The undertaker must take such steps as are reasonably practicable to secure that any water discharged into a watercourse or public sewer or drain pursuant to this article is as free as may be practicable from gravel, soil or other solid substance, oil or matter in suspension.\n(6) This article does not authorise the entry into controlled waters of any matter whose entry or discharge into controlled waters requires a licence pursuant to the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016.\n(7) The undertaker must not, in carrying out, maintaining or decommissioning works pursuant to this article, damage or interfere with the bed or banks of any watercourse forming part of a main river.\n(8) Where the undertaker discharges water into, or makes an opening into, a watercourse, public sewer or drain belonging to, or under the control of, Anglian Water or any other drainage authority (as defined in Part 9 of Schedule 15 (protective provisions)), the provisions of Part 5 or Part 9 of Schedule 15 (protective provisions) apply instead of paragraphs (3) and (4).\n(9) In this article—\n(a) “public sewer or drain” means a sewer or drain which belongs to Homes England, the Environment Agency, an internal drainage board, a joint planning board, a local authority, a National Park Authority, a sewerage undertaker or an urban development corporation; and\n(b) other expressions, excluding watercourse, used both in this article and in the Water Resources Act 1991 have the same meaning as in that Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1991 c. 56."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/1074/article/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:54:07.044962+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."
}