{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/helios-renewable-energy-project-order-2025/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1372",
  "legislation_title": "The Helios Renewable Energy Project Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/helios-renewable-energy-project-order-2025",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order—\n“the 1961 Act” means the Land Compensation Act 1961;\n“the 1965 Act” means the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965;\n“the 1980 Act” means the Highways Act 1980;\n“the 1981 Act” means the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981;\n“the 1984 Act” means the Road Traffic Regulations Act 1984\n“the 1989 Act” means the Electricity Act 1989;\n“the 1990 Act” means the Town and Country Planning Act 1990;\n“the 1991 Act” means the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991;\n“the 2008 Act” means the Planning Act 2008;\n“address” includes any number or address for the purposes of electronic transmission;\n“access and rights of way plan” means the plan certified by the Secretary of State as the access and rights of way plan for the purposes of this Order under article 35 (certification of plans, etc);\n“authorised development” means the development and associated development described in Schedule 1 (authorised development) which is development within the meaning of section 32 of the 2008 Act;\n“the book of reference” means the book of reference certified by the Secretary of State as the book of reference for the purposes of this Order under article 35 (certification of plans, etc);\n“building” includes any structure or erection or any part of a building, structure or erection;\n“CEMP” means the construction environmental management plan approved pursuant to requirement 3;\n“commence” means to carry out any material operation (as defined in section 155 of the 2008 Act) forming part of the authorised development other than the site preparation works, and “commencement” and “commenced” must be construed accordingly;\n“CTMP” means the construction traffic management plan approved pursuant to requirement 6;\n“DEMP” means the decommissioning environmental management plan approved pursuant to requirement 5;\n“electronic transmission” means a communication transmitted—\n(a) by means of an electronic communications network; or\n(b) by other means but while in electronic form;\n“environmental statement” means the document certified by the Secretary of State as the environmental statement for the purpose of this Order under article 35 (certification of plans, etc);\n“flood risk assessment” means the document certified by the Secretary of State as the flood risk assessment for the purposes of this Order under article 35 (certification of plans, etc);\n“generating station” has the same meaning as in Part 1 of the 1989 Act;\n“highway” and “highway authority” have the same meaning as in the 1980 Act;\n“land plans” means the plans certified by the Secretary of State as the land plans for the purposes of this Order under article 35 (certification of plans, etc);\n“local planning authority” means the planning authority for the area to which the provision relates;\n“LEMP” means the landscape and ecological plan approved pursuant to requirement 10;\n“location and order limits plan” means the plan certified by the Secretary of State as the location and order limits plan for the purposes of this Order under article 35 (certification of plans, etc);\n“maintain” includes inspect, repair, adjust, alter, remove, refurbish, reconstruct, replace and improve any part of, but not remove, reconstruct or replace the whole of, the authorised development, and any derivative of “maintain” must be construed accordingly;\n“NGET” means National Grid Electricity Transmission plc (company number 02366977) whose registered office is at 1-3 The Strand, London, WC2N 5EH;\n“OEMP” means the operational environmental management plan approved pursuant to requirement 7;\n“Order land” means the land shown on the land plans which is within the limits of land to be acquired or used and described in the book of reference;\n“Order limits” means the limits shown on the land plans within which the authorised development may be carried out and land acquired or used;\n“outline archaeological mitigation strategy” means the document certified by the Secretary of State as the outline archaeological mitigation strategy for the purposes of this Order under article 35 (certification of plans, etc);\n“outline battery safety management plan” means the document certified by the Secretary of State as the outline battery safety management plan for the purposes of this Order under article 35 (certification of plans, etc);\n“outline CEMP” means the document certified by the Secretary of State as the outline construction environmental management plan for the purposes of this Order in accordance with article 35 (certification of plans, etc);\n“outline CTMP” means the document certified by the Secretary of State as the outline construction traffic management plan for the purposes of this Order in accordance with article 35 (certification of plans, etc);\n“outline DEMP” means the document certified by the Secretary of State as the outline decommissioning environmental management plan for the purposes of this Order in accordance with article 35 (certification of plans, etc);\n“outline design principles document” means the document certified by the Secretary of State as the outline design principles document for the purposes of this Order in accordance with article 35 (certification of plans, etc.);\n“outline LEMP” means the document certified by the Secretary of State as the outline landscape and ecological management plan for the purposes of this Order in accordance with article 35 (certification of plans, etc);\n“outline OEMP” means the document certified by the Secretary of State as the outline operational environmental management plan for the purposes of this Order under article 35 (certification of plans, etc.);\n“outline soil resource management plan” means the document certified by the Secretary of State as the outline soil resource management plan for the purposes of this Order under article 35 (certification of plans, etc.);\n“outline supply chain, employment and skills plan” means the document certified by the Secretary of State as the outline supply chain, employment and skills plan for the purposes of this Order in accordance with article 35 (certification of plans, etc.);\n“requirement” means those matters set out in Part 1 of Schedule 2 (requirements) and a reference to a numbered requirement is a reference to the requirement set out in the paragraph of that Part of that Schedule with the same number;\n“site preparation works” means all or any of—\n(a) above ground site preparation for temporary facilities for the use of contractors;\n(b) the provision of temporary means of enclosure and site security for construction;\n(c) the temporary display of site notices or advertisements; and\n(d) site clearance (including vegetation removal along the A1041 to facilitate the site accesses as part of work No. 8);\n“street” means a street within the meaning of section 48 of the 1991 Act, together with land on the verge of a street or between 2 carriageways, and includes any footpath or part of a street;\n“street authority” in relation to a street, has the same meaning as in Part 3 of the 1991 Act;\n“undertaker” means Enso Green Holdings D Limited (company number 12762856), whose registered office is at 17th Floor Hylo, 103-105 Bunhill Row, London, United Kingdom, EC1Y 8LZ;\n“watercourse” includes all rivers, streams, creeks, ditches, drains, canals, cuts, culverts, dykes, sluices, sewers and passages through which water flows except a public sewer or drain (except where stated to the contrary);\n“work” means a work set out in Schedule 1 (authorised development); and\n“works plans” means the plans certified by the Secretary of State as the works plans for the purposes of this Order in accordance with article 35 (certification of plans, etc).\n(2) All distances, directions, capacities and lengths referred to in this Order are approximate and distances between points on a work are taken to be measured along that work.\n(3) Any reference in this Order to a work identified by the number of the work is to be construed as a reference to the work of that number authorised by this Order.\n(4) In this Order “includes” must be construed without limitation unless the contrary intention appears.\n(5) References in this Order to any statutory body include that body’s successor bodies as from time to time have jurisdiction in relation to the authorised development.\n(6) References in this Order to rights over land and watercourses include references to rights to do or restrain or to place and maintain anything in, on or under land or watercourses or in the airspace above its surface and to any trusts or incidents (including restrictive covenants) to which the land is subject and references in this Order to the imposition of restrictive covenants are references to the creation of rights over land which interfere with the interests or rights of another and are for the benefit of land which is acquired under this Order or over which rights are created and acquired under this Order or is otherwise comprised in this Order.\n(7) All areas described in square metres in the book of reference are approximate.\n(8) References in this Order to any statute, order, regulation or similar instrument are to be construed as a reference to the statute, order, regulation or instrument as amended by any subsequent statute, order, regulation or instrument or as contained in any subsequent re-enactment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1961 c. 33."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1965 c. 56."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1980 c. 66."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1981 c. 66."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1984 c. 27."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1989 c. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "1990 c. 8."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "1991 c. 22."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "2008 c. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f10",
      "text": "“highway” is defined in section 328(1); for “highway authority” see section 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f11",
      "text": "“street authority” is defined in section 49, which was amended by paragraph 117 of Schedule 1 to the Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:07:54.016827+00:00"
  },
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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