Paragraph 30 I1

In this Part of this Schedule—

• “construction” includes execution, placing, altering, replacing, relaying and removal and “construct” and “constructed” are to be construed accordingly;

• “drainage work” means an ordinary watercourse and includes any land which is expected to provide flood storage capacity for an ordinary watercourse and any bank, wall, embankment or other structure, or any appliance, constructed or used for land drainage or flood defence in connection with an ordinary watercourse;

• “ordinary watercourse” has the same meaning as given in section 72 (interpretation) of the Land Drainage Act 1991^f1;

• “plans” includes any information reasonably required by Surrey County Council including location details, grid references, sections, drawings, specifications, assessments and method statements; and

• “specified work” means any of the following works carried out in relation to any ordinary watercourse—

  1. (a)

     erecting any mill dam, weir or other similar obstruction to the flow of the watercourse, or raising or otherwise altering any such obstruction;

  2. (b)

     erecting a culvert in the watercourse; or

  3. (c)

     altering a culvert in a manner that would be likely to affect the flow of the watercourse.