{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/heckington-fen-solar-park-order-2025/article-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/heckington-fen-solar-park-order-2025/article-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/85",
  "legislation_title": "The Heckington Fen Solar Park Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/heckington-fen-solar-park-order-2025",
  "path": "article/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Discharge of water",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (3), (4) and (8), the undertaker may use any watercourse or any public sewer or drain for the drainage of water in connection with the construction or maintenance 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, but must not be unreasonably withheld.\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 but such approval must not be unreasonably withheld; and\n(b) where that person has been given the opportunity to supervise the making of the opening.\n(5) Where the undertaker discharges water into, or makes any opening into, a watercourse, public sewer or drain belonging to or under the control of the Black Sluice Internal Drainage Board, the provisions of Part 7 of Schedule 13 (protective provisions) apply in substitution for the provisions of paragraphs (3) and (4).\n(6) The undertaker must not, in carrying out or maintaining works pursuant to this article damage or interfere with the bed or banks of any watercourse forming part of a main river.\n(7) 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(8) 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(9) In this article—\n(a) “public sewer or drain” means a sewer or drain which belongs to the Environment Agency, an internal drainage board, a joint planning board, a local 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.\n(10) If a person who receives an application for consent or approval fails to notify the undertaker of a decision within 28 days of receiving an application for consent under paragraph (3) or approval under sub-paragraph (4)(a) that person is deemed to have granted consent or given approval, as the case may be.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 14(10) substituted (14.4.2025) by The Heckington Fen Solar Park (Correction) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/482), art. 1(2), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 14 in force at 17.2.2025, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1991 c. 56. Section 106 was amended by section 35(8)(a) of the Competition and Service (Utilities) Act 1992 (c. 43) and sections 36(2) and 99 of the Water Act 2003 (c. 37). There are other amendments to this section which are not relevant to this Order."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2016/1154."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1991 c. 57."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/85/article/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:21:15.551430+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."
}