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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/north-falls-offshore-wind-farm-order-2026/schedule-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/north-falls-offshore-wind-farm-order-2026/schedule-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/567",
  "legislation_title": "The North Falls Offshore Wind Farm Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/north-falls-offshore-wind-farm-order-2026",
  "path": "schedule/5",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "LAND IN WHICH ONLY NEW RIGHTS ETC., MAY BE ACQUIRED",
  "text": "(1)\nNumber of plot shown on land plans\n(2)\nPurpose for which rights may be acquired\nIntertidal zone\n01-001, 01-002\nRights\nRights for the purposes of the construction, installation, retention, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of the authorised development to—\n(a) lay down, install, retain, adjust, alter, construct, operate, erect, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, remove and replace the electricity cables (including the removal of materials including spoil) in, under, over and/or on the land, together with such telemetry and fibre-optic lines, ducting, jointing bays and other apparatus, protection measures, cable marker posts, chambers and manholes, manhole covers and other equipment which is ancillary to the purposes of transmitting electricity along such electricity cables (all collectively referred to as the “cables”), and in doing so, to use or resort to trenchless installation techniques including (but not limited to) directional drilling beneath sea defences and existing infrastructure;\n(b) to benefit from continuous vertical and lateral support for the authorised development;\n(c) pass and re-pass with or without vehicles, plant, machinery, apparatus, equipment and materials for the purposes of laying down, installing, adjusting, altering, constructing, using, maintaining, repairing, renewing, inspecting, removing and replacing the electrical infrastructure and cables;\n(d) construct and install and thereafter use the land for all necessary purposes for the commissioning, construction, repair, testing and maintenance of the cables in, on or under the land;\n(e) place and use plant, machinery, structures and temporary structures within the land for the purposes of the installation, construction, maintenance, repairing, renewing, upgrading, inspecting, removal and replacing of the ducting, electrical infrastructure and cables, and to erect temporary signage and provide measures for the benefit of public and personnel safety.\nRestrictive covenants\nA restrictive covenant over the land for the benefit of the remainder of the Order land to—\n(a) prevent anything to be done in or upon the land or any part thereof for the purpose of the erection of any buildings or construction erection or works of any kind (including the foundations or footings thereto);\n(b) prevent anything to be done by way of hard surfacing of the land with concrete of any kind or with any other material or surface whatsoever without the consent in writing of the undertaker (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed if the proposed surfacing would not cause damage to the relevant part of the authorised development nor make it materially more difficult or expensive to maintain the authorised development);\n(c) prevent anything to be done by way of excavation of any kind in the land nor any activities which may obstruct, interrupt, or interfere with the exercise of the rights or damage the authorised development, alter, increase or decrease ground cover or soil levels in any manner whatsoever without the consent in writing of the undertaker save as are reasonably required for agricultural activities (being ploughing to no deeper than 0.6m for the purposes of arable farming) or are required to be carried out by National Grid in order to exercise their statutory functions or rights in relation to their apparatus (if any) within the land;\n(d) to prevent anything being done which may interfere with free flow and passage of electricity or telecommunications through the cables or support for the authorised development;\n(e) prevent carrying out operations or actions (including but not limited to blasting and piling) which may obstruct, interrupt, or interfere with the exercise of the rights or damage the authorised development.\nLandfall and Onshore Connection Works\n01-003, 01-004, 01-005, 01-006, 01-007, 01-008, 01-009, 01-010\nRights\nRights for the purposes of the construction, installation, retention, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of the authorised development to—\n(a) lay down, install, retain, adjust, alter, construct, operate, erect, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, remove and replace the electricity cables (including the removal of materials including spoil) in, under, over and/or on the land, together with such telemetry and fibre-optic lines, ducting, jointing bays and other apparatus, protection measures, cable marker posts, chambers and manholes, manhole covers and other equipment which is ancillary to the purposes of transmitting electricity along such electricity cables (all collectively referred to as the “cables”), and in doing so, to use or resort to trenchless installation techniques including (but not limited to) directional drilling beneath sea defences, watercourses and highways;\n(b) enter, be on, and break open and break up the surface of the land and remain with or without plant, vehicles, machinery, apparatus and equipment which is ancillary to the purposes of installing, operating and maintaining the cables, transmitting electricity along the cables or use of electrical infrastructure and the cables;\n(c) to benefit from continuous vertical and lateral support for the authorised development;\n(d) pass and re-pass with or without vehicles, plant, machinery, apparatus, equipment and materials for the purposes of laying down, installing, adjusting, altering, constructing, using, maintaining, repairing, renewing, upgrading, inspecting, removing and replacing the electrical infrastructure and cables;\n(e) construct and install and thereafter use the land for all necessary purposes for the commissioning, construction, repair, testing and maintenance of the cables in, on or under the land;\n(f) place and use plant, machinery, structures and temporary structures within the land for the purposes of the installation, construction, maintenance, repairing, renewing, upgrading, inspecting, removal and replacing of the electrical infrastructure and cables, and to erect temporary signage and provide measures for the benefit of public and personnel safety;\n(g) erect temporary bridges and supporting or protective structures for the purposes of access to adjoining land and highway;\n(h) erect fencing, gates, walls, barriers or other means of enclosure, and create secure working areas and compounds including trenchless installation technique compounds and working areas;\n(i) construct, lay down, use and remove temporary access roads including any necessary hard standing and other surface materials including (but not limited to) matting, aggregate, trackway, stone, tarmacadam, terram, temporary bridging, culverting or diversion of water courses and drains during any period during which construction, maintenance, repair or renewal or decommissioning is being carried out;\n(j) to use, maintain, renew, improve and alter existing accesses, roads, streets, tracks or ways over the land, providing that such use is not exclusive and exercise of this right must not prevent or unreasonably inhibit use by other parties;\n(k) effect access and egress to and from the highway;\n(l) make such investigations in or on the land as required;\n(m) alter, fell, lop or cut, coppice wood, uproot trees or hedges or shrubs or other vegetation which now or hereafter may be standing on the land or other land which would if not felled, lopped, cut or removed would obstruct or interfere with the operation of the cables and ancillary equipment including ducting;\n(n) to take and use, remove and discharge water from the land, and to lay down, install, retain, use, maintain, inspect, adjust, alter, remove, refurbish, reconstruct, upgrade, replace, protect and improve sewers, drains, pipes, ducts, mains, conduits, flues and to drain into and manage waterflows in any drains, watercourses and culverts, install, retain, use, inspect, maintain, adjust, alter, renew, repair, test or cleanse drainage schemes on the land or reinstate the any existing drainage scheme on the land;\n(o) lay down, install, alter, re-lay, maintain, protect, adjust, use or remove pipes, cables or conduits or apparatus including but not limited to electricity poles, electricity pylons, electricity masts, overhead electricity lines, telecommunications cables and any ancillary equipment and apparatus public and private drains, watercourses, sewers, ponds or culverts, service media (including the pipes, cables or conduits or apparatus of statutory undertakers and providing connection to the authorised development);\n(p) erect and remove temporary fencing, gates, walls, barriers or other means of enclosure, remove fences and structures within the land during any period during which construction, maintenance, repair or renewal is being carried out (subject to erection of any temporary stock-proof fencing as is reasonably required and the re-instatement or suitable replacement of the fences or structures following the end of each period of exercise of the rights);\n(q) store and stockpile materials (including excavated material);\n(r) create boreholes and trial excavation pits for the purposes of intrusively surveying the land and monitoring the use of any trenchless installation technique, to keep in place and monitor the same through construction, maintenance repair, replacement or decommissioning and to reinstate the land;\n(s) to excavate materials below ground level, including soils, and to store and re-use or dispose of the same, and in so excavating to undertake any works, including works of protection or removal of archaeological remains as may be required by any written scheme of investigation approved under this Order;\n(t) lay out and maintain temporary paths and bridleways for public use as temporary diversions for public rights of way which are interfered with during any period in which construction, maintenance, repair or renewal decommissioning is being carried out;\n(u) to install, execute, implement, retain, repair, improve, renew, relocate, maintain and carry out mitigation, maintenance, remediation works for environmental or ecological mitigation or enhancement works, including temporary works for noise alleviation measures and the installation of temporary barriers for the protection of fauna;\n(v) carry out such works (together with associated fencing) required by a planning permission and/or consent now or to be granted over the land and/or in accordance with any necessary licences relating to protected species and/or wildlife; and\n(w) (in an emergency only when the cables are temporarily unusable) to lay down, install, use, maintain and inspect underground cables, telephone signalling and fibre-optic cables and ancillary equipment, associated works and other conducting media together with conduits or pipes for containing the same in and under the land.\nRestrictive covenants\nA restrictive covenant over the land for the benefit of the remainder of the Order land to—\n(a) prevent anything to be done in or upon the land or any part thereof for the purpose of the erection of any buildings or construction erection or works of any kind (including the foundations or footings thereto);\n(b) prevent anything to be done by way of hard surfacing of the land with concrete of any kind or with any other material or surface whatsoever without the consent in writing of the undertaker (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed if the proposed surfacing would not cause damage to relevant part of the authorised development nor make it materially more difficult or expensive to maintain the authorised development);\n(c) to prevent anything to be done by way of excavation of any kind in the land nor any activities which may obstruct, interrupt, or interfere with the exercise of the rights or damage the authorised development, alter, increase or decrease ground cover or soil levels in any manner whatsoever without the consent in writing of the undertaker save as are reasonably required for agricultural activities (being ploughing to no deeper than 0.6m for the purposes of arable farming) or are required to be carried out by National Grid in order to exercise their statutory functions or rights in relation to their apparatus (if any) within the land;\n(d) to prevent the planting or growing within the land of any trees, shrubs or underwood without the consent in writing of the undertaker (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed provided that the proposed trees, shrubs or underwood would not cause damage to the relevant part of the authorised development nor make it materially more difficult or expensive to access the relevant part of the authorised development);\n(e) to prevent anything being done which may interfere with free flow and passage of electricity or telecommunications through the cables or support for the authorised development;\n(f) to prevent carrying out operations or actions (including but not limited to blasting and piling) which may obstruct, interrupt, or interfere with the exercise of the rights or damage the authorised development; and\n(g) to prevent any activity which would in the reasonable opinion of the undertaker result in the disturbance of ecological mitigation areas or areas of habitat creation or reinstatement including any ploughing or grazing without the prior written consent of the undertaker.\nCable Route Onshore\n01-010, 01-012, 01-013, 01-016, 02-001, 02-002, 02-006, 02-009, 02-015, 02-016, 03-004, 03-005, 03-008, 03-009, 03-023, 03-024, 04-006, 04-007, 04-009, 04-010, 04-011, 04-016, 04-022, 05-005, 05-008, 05-009, 05-010, 05-016, 05-017, 05-018, 05-024, 05-026, 06-002, 06-014, 06-017, 06-018, 06-019, 06-020, 07-001, 07-003, 07-007, 07-009, 07-010, 07-011, 07-012, 08-005, 08-006, 08-007, 08-009, 08-011, 08-012, 08-013, 08-014, 08-020, 08-021, 08-022, 09-005, 09-007, 09-008, 09-012, 10-003, 10-006, 10-007, 10-009, 10-019, 10-020, 11-004, 11-005, 12-005, 12-006, 12-010, 12-011, 12-012, 12-020, 12-021, 13-001, 13-002, 13-027, 13-028, 13-046, 13-052, 13-053, 13-054, 13-055, 13-056, 13-057, 13-061, 14-003, 14-004, 14-007, 14-008, 14-009, 14-015, 14-016, 14-017, 14-021, 14-022, 15-001, 15-003, 15-004, 15-005, 15-010, 15-011\nRights\nRights for the purposes of the construction, installation, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of the authorised development to—\n(a) lay down, install, retain, adjust, alter, construct, operate, erect, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, remove and replace the electricity cables (including the removal of materials including spoil) in, under, over and/or on the land together with such telemetry and fibre-optic lines, ducting, jointing bays and other apparatus, protection measures, cable marker posts, chambers and manholes, manhole covers and other equipment which is ancillary to the purposes of transmitting electricity along such electricity cables (all collectively referred to as the “cables”), and in doing so, to use or resort to trenchless installation techniques including (but not limited to) directional drilling beneath watercourses, highways and railways;\n(b) lay down, install, retain, adjust, alter, construct, operate, erect, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, remove and replace the additional ducts for electricity cables (including the removal of materials including spoil) in, under, over and/or on the land, allow the installation and use of electrical cables in the additional ducts, together with such telemetry and fibre-optic lines, ducting, jointing bays and other apparatus, protection measures, cable marker posts, chambers and manholes, manhole covers and other equipment which is ancillary to the purposes of transmitting electricity along such electricity cables (all collectively referred to as the “cables”), and in doing so, to use or resort to trenchless installation techniques including (but not limited to) directional drilling beneath watercourses, highways and railways;\n(c) enter, be on, and break open and break up the surface of the land and remain with or without plant, vehicles, machinery, apparatus and equipment which is ancillary to the purposes of installing, operating and maintaining the cables or additional ducts, transmitting electricity along the cables, or use of electrical infrastructure and the cables;\n(d) to benefit from continuous vertical and lateral support for the authorised development;\n(e) pass and re-pass with or without vehicles, plant, machinery, apparatus, equipment and materials for the purposes of laying down, installing, adjusting, altering, constructing, using, maintaining, repairing, renewing, upgrading, inspecting, removing and replacing the electrical infrastructure and cables and additional ducts;\n(f) construct and install and thereafter use the land for all necessary purposes for the commissioning, construction, repair, testing and maintenance of the cables and additional ducts in, on or under the land;\n(g) place and use plant, machinery, structures and temporary structures within the land for the purposes of the installation, construction, maintenance, repairing, renewing, upgrading, inspecting, removal and replacing of the electrical infrastructure and cables and additional ducts, and to erect temporary signage and provide measures for the benefit of public and personnel safety;\n(h) erect temporary bridges and supporting or protective structures for the purposes of access to adjoining land and highway;\n(i) erect fencing, gates, walls, barriers or other means of enclosure, and create secure working areas and compounds including trenchless installation technique compounds and working areas;\n(j) construct, lay down, use and remove temporary access roads including any necessary hard standing and other surface materials including (but not limited to) matting, aggregate, trackway, stone, tarmacadam, terram, temporary bridging, culverting or diversion of water courses and drains during any period during which construction, maintenance, repair or renewal or decommissioning is being carried out;\n(k) to use, maintain, renew improve and alter existing accesses, roads, streets, tracks or ways over the land, providing that such use is not exclusive and exercise of this right must not prevent or unreasonably inhibit use by other parties;\n(l) effect access and egress to and from the highway;\n(m) make such investigations in or on the land as required;\n(n) alter, fell, lop or cut, coppice or replant wood, uproot trees or hedges or shrubs or other vegetation which now or hereafter may be standing on the land or other land which would if not felled, lopped, cut or removed would obstruct or interfere with the operation of the cables and ancillary equipment including ducting;\n(o) to take and use, remove and discharge water from the land, and to lay down, install, retain, use, maintain, inspect, adjust, alter, remove, refurbish, reconstruct, upgrade, replace, protect and improve sewers, drains, pipes, ducts, mains, conduits, flues and to drain into and manage waterflows in any drains, watercourses and culverts, install, retain, use, inspect, maintain, adjust, alter, renew, repair, test or cleanse drainage schemes on the land or reinstate the any existing drainage scheme on the land;\n(p) lay down, install, alter, re-lay, maintain, protect, adjust, use or remove pipes, cables or conduits or apparatus including but not limited to electricity poles, electricity pylons, electricity masts, overhead electricity lines, telecommunications cables and any ancillary equipment and apparatus, public and private drains, watercourses, sewers, ponds or culverts, service media (including the pipes, cables or conduits or apparatus of statutory undertakers and providing connection to the authorised development);\n(q) erect and remove temporary fencing, gates, walls, barriers or other means of enclosure, remove fences and structures within the land during any period during which construction, maintenance, repair or renewal is being carried out (subject to erection of any temporary stock-proof fencing as is reasonably required and the re-instatement or suitable replacement of the fences or structures following the end of each period of exercise of the rights);\n(r) store and stockpile materials (including excavated material);\n(s) create boreholes and trial excavation pits for the purposes of intrusively surveying the land and monitoring the use of any trenchless installation technique, to keep in place and monitor the same through construction, maintenance repair, replacement or decommissioning and to reinstate the land;\n(t) to excavate materials below ground level, including soils, and to store and re-use or dispose of the same, and in so excavating to undertake any works, including works of protection or removal of archaeological remains as may be required by any written scheme of investigation approved under this Order;\n(u) lay out and maintain temporary paths and bridleways for public use as temporary diversions for public rights of way which are interfered with during any period in which construction, maintenance, repair or renewal decommissioning is being carried out;\n(v) to install, execute, implement, retain, repair, improve, renew, relocate, maintain and carry out mitigation, maintenance, remediation works for environmental or ecological mitigation or enhancement works, including temporary works for noise alleviation measures and the installation of temporary barriers for the protection of fauna;\n(w) carry out such works (together with associated fencing) required by a planning permission and/or consent now or to be granted over the land and/or in accordance with any necessary licences relating to protected species and/or wildlife; and\n(x) (in an emergency only when the cables are temporarily unusable) to lay down, install, use, maintain and inspect underground cables, telephone signalling and fibre-optic cables and ancillary equipment, associated works and other conducting media together with conduits or pipes for containing the same in and under the land.\nRestrictive covenants\nA restrictive covenant over the land for the benefit of the remainder of the Order land to—\n(a) prevent anything to be done in or upon the land or any part thereof for the purpose of the erection of any buildings or construction erection or works of any kind (including the foundations or footings thereto);\n(b) prevent anything to be done by way of hard surfacing of the land with concrete of any kind or with any other material or surface whatsoever without the consent in writing of the undertaker (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed if the proposed surfacing would not cause damage to relevant part of the authorised development nor make it materially more difficult or expensive to maintain the authorised development);\n(c) to prevent anything to be done by way of excavation of any kind in the land nor any activities which may obstruct, interrupt, or interfere with the exercise of the rights or damage the authorised development, alter, increase or decrease ground cover or soil levels in any manner whatsoever without the consent in writing of the undertaker save as are reasonably required for agricultural activities (being ploughing to no deeper than 0.6m for the purposes of arable farming) or are required to be carried out by National Grid in order to exercise their statutory functions or rights in relation to their apparatus (if any) within the land;\n(d) to prevent the planting or growing within the land of any trees, shrubs or underwood without the consent in writing of the undertaker (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed provided that the proposed trees, shrubs or underwood would not cause damage to the relevant part of the authorised development nor make it materially more difficult or expensive to access the relevant part of the authorised development);\n(e) to prevent anything being done which may interfere with free flow and passage of electricity or telecommunications through the cables or support for the authorised development;\n(f) to prevent carrying out operations or actions (including but not limited to blasting and piling) which may obstruct, interrupt, or interfere with the exercise of the rights or damage the authorised development; and\n(g) to prevent any activity which would in the reasonable opinion of the undertaker result in the disturbance of ecological mitigation areas or areas of habitat creation or reinstatement including any ploughing or grazing without the prior written consent of the undertaker.\nOperational and Maintenance Access\n01-011, 01-015, 02-004, 02-012, 02-017, 02-018, 02-019, 02-020, 03-001, 03-016, 03-017, 03-020, 03-021, 03-022, 04-002, 04-003, 04-004, 04-005, 04-012, 04-013, 04-014, 04-015, 04-017, 04-018, 05-022, 05-027, 06-001, 06-003, 06-007, 06-012, 07-004, 08-002, 08-010, 08-015, 08-023, 08-024, 09-003, 09-006, 09-009, 09-010, 09-011, 10-008, 10-013, 11-001, 12-014, 13-032, 13-033\nRights\nRights for the purposes of the construction, installation, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of the authorised development to—\n(a) pass and re-pass with or without vehicles, plant, machinery, apparatus, equipment and materials for the purposes of the authorised development, the inspection, use, testing, maintenance, renewal, repair, upgrading, replacement and removal of the cables and connection into any adjacent cables and associated works, to take plant and equipment on to adjoining land and make such investigations in or on the land which is ancillary for the purposes of exercise of the rights;\n(b) to construct, use, maintain and improve a permanent means of access including visibility splays, and retain, maintain, straighten, widen, repair, alter, upgrade and use existing access routes for the purposes of accessing the land, adjoining land and highway;\n(c) retain, maintain, straighten, widen, repair, alter, upgrade and use existing access routes for the purposes of accessing adjoining land and highway;\n(d) construct, lay down, use and remove temporary access roads including any necessary hard standing and other surface materials including (but not limited to) matting, aggregate, trackway, stone, tarmacadam, terram, temporary bridging, culverting or diversion of water courses and drains during any period during which construction, maintenance, repair, renewal or decommissioning is being carried out;\n(e) erect temporary bridges and supporting or protective structures for the purposes of access to adjoining land;\n(f) place and use plant, machinery, structures and temporary structures within the land, and to erect temporary signage and provide measures for the benefit of public and personnel safety;\n(g) alter, fell, lop, cut, coppice wood, uproot trees or hedges or shrubs or other vegetation which now or hereafter may be present on the land for the purpose of enabling the right to pass and re-pass to adjoining land;\n(h) repair, improve, renew, remove, relocate and plant trees, woodland, shrubs, hedgerows, seeding, other vegetation and other ecological measures together with the right to maintain, inspect and replant such trees, shrubs and landscaping;\n(i) erect and remove temporary fencing, gates, walls, barriers or other means of enclosure; and\n(j) lay out and maintain temporary paths and bridleways for public use as temporary diversions for public rights of way which are interfered with during any period in which construction, maintenance, repair or renewal decommissioning is being carried out.\nRestrictive covenants\nA restrictive covenant over the land for the benefit of the remainder of the Order land to—\n(a) prevent anything to be done in or upon the Land or any part thereof for the purpose of the erection of any buildings or construction erection or works of any kind (including the foundations footings or other supporting structures thereto); and\n(b) prevent the planting or growing within the Land of any trees, shrubs or underwood without the consent in writing of the undertaker (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed provided that the proposed trees, shrubs or underwood would not cause damage to the relevant part of the authorised development nor make it materially more difficult or expensive to access the relevant part of the authorised development).\nSubstation Drainage\n15-002, 15-012, 15-013, 15-015\nRights\nRights for the purposes of the construction, installation, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of the authorised development to—\n(a) remove and discharge water from the land and to lay down, install, retain, use, maintain, inspect, adjust, alter, remove, refurbish, reconstruct, upgrade, replace, protect and improve sewers, drains, pipes, ducts, mains, conduits, flues and to drain into and manage waterflows in any drains, watercourses and culverts, to lay down, install, adjust, alter, construct, create, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, remove and replace a drainage scheme on the land (the “drainage works”);\n(b) inspect, use mechanical excavation (including directional drilling and/or digging), reinstate, remove, move or alter such part or parts of any drainage system on the land for the purposes of the drainage works (including connecting the drainage works to any land drain as at the date of the drainage works);\n(c) enter, be on, and break up the surface of the land and remain with or without plant, vehicles, machinery, apparatus and equipment which is ancillary to the purposes of the drainage works;\n(d) store and stockpile materials (including excavated material);\n(e) make such investigations in or on the land as required for the purposes of the drainage works, include to create boreholes and trail excavation pits for the purposes of intrusively surveying the land;\n(f) to excavate materials below ground level, including soils, and to store and re-use or dispose of the same, and in so excavating, to undertake any works, including works of protection or removal of archaeological remains as may be required by any written scheme of investigation approved under this Order;\n(g) pass and re-pass with or without vehicles, plant, machinery, apparatus, equipment and materials for the purposes of the drainage works;\n(h) place and use plant, machinery, structures and temporary structures within the land, and to erect temporary signage and provide measures for the benefit of public and personnel safety for the purposes of the drainage works;\n(i) erect fencing, gates, walls, barriers or other means of enclosure, and create secure works areas or compounds and working areas for the purposes of the drainage works;\n(j) construct, lay down, use and remove temporary access roads including any necessary hard standing and other surface materials including (but not limited to) matting, aggregate, trackway, stone, tarmacadam, terram, temporary bridging, culverting or diversion of water courses and drains during any period during which construction, maintenance, repair or renewal of any drainage work is being carried out;\n(k) effect access and egress to and from the highway;\n(l) alter, fell, lop or cut, coppice wood, uproot trees or hedges or shrubs which now or hereafter may be standing on the land or other land which would if not felled, lopped, cut or removed obstruct or interfere with the drainage works;\n(m) install, alter, re-lay, maintain, protect, adjust or remove pipes, cables or conduits or apparatus including but not limited to electricity poles, electricity pylons, electricity masts, overhead electricity lines, telecommunications cables and any ancillary equipment and apparatus public and private drains, watercourses, sewers, ponds or culverts, service media (including the pipes, cables or conduits or apparatus of statutory undertakers);\n(n) to install, execute, implement, retain, repair, improve, renew, relocate, maintain and carry out mitigation, maintenance, remediation works for environmental or ecological mitigation or enhancement works, including temporary works for noise alleviation measures and the installation of temporary barriers for the protection of fauna; and\n(o) to carry out such works (together with associated fencing) required by a planning permission and/or consent now or to be granted over the land in accordance with any necessary licences relating to protected species and/or wildlife.\nRestrictive covenants\nA restrictive covenant over the land for the benefit of the remainder of the Order land to—\n(a) prevent anything to be done in or upon the land or any part thereof for the purpose of the erection of any buildings or construction erection or works of any kind (including the foundations or footings thereto); and\n(b) prevent anything to be done by way of hard surfacing of the land with concrete of any kind or with any other material or surface whatsoever without the consent in writing of the undertaker (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed if the proposed surfacing would not cause damage drainage works).\nNational Grid Substation Works\n15-015, 16-002, 16-003, 16-004, 16-005, 16-006, 16-007, 16-008\nRights\nRights for the purposes of the construction, installation, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of the authorised development to—\n(a) lay down, install, retain, adjust, alter, construct, operate, erect, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, remove and replace the electricity cables (including the removal of materials including spoil) in, under, over and/or on the land, together with such telemetry and fibre-optic lines, ducting, jointing bays and other apparatus, protection measures, cable marker posts, chambers and manholes, manhole covers and other equipment which is ancillary to the purposes of transmitting electricity along such electricity cables (all collectively referred to as the “cables”);\n(b) enter, be on, and break open and break up the surface of the land and remain with or without plant, vehicles, machinery, apparatus and equipment which is ancillary to the purposes of transmitting electricity along the cables;\n(c) to benefit from continuous vertical and lateral support for the authorised development;\n(d) pass and re-pass with or without vehicles, plant, machinery, apparatus, equipment and materials for the purposes of laying down, installing, adjusting, altering, constructing, using, maintaining, repairing, renewing, upgrading, inspecting the authorised development and for removing and replacing the cables;\n(e) to use, maintain, renew improve and alter existing accesses, roads, streets, tracks or ways over the land, providing that such use is not exclusive and exercise of this right must not prevent or unreasonably inhibit use by other parties;\n(f) construct, lay down, use and remove temporary access roads including any necessary hard standing and other surface materials including (but not limited to) matting, aggregate, trackway, stone, tarmacadam, terram, temporary bridging, culverting or diversion of water courses and drains during any period during which construction, maintenance, repair, renewal or decommissioning is being carried out;\n(g) place and use plant, machinery, structures and temporary structures within the land, and to erect temporary signage and provide measures for the benefit of public and personnel safety;\n(h) fell, lop, cut, coppice wood, uproot trees or hedges or shrubs or other vegetation which now or hereafter may be present on the land for the purpose of enabling the right to pass and re-pass to adjoining land;\n(i) to take and use, remove and discharge water from the land and to lay down, install, retain, use, maintain, inspect, adjust, alter, remove, refurbish, reconstruct, upgrade, replace, protect and improve sewers, drains, pipes, ducts, mains, conduits, flues and to drain into and manage waterflows in any drains, watercourses and culverts, to lay down, install, retain, adjust, alter, construct, create, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, remove and replace a drainage scheme on the land;\n(j) lay down, install, alter, re-lay, maintain, protect, adjust, use or remove pipes, cables or conduits or apparatus including but not limited to electricity poles, electricity pylons, electricity masts, overhead electricity lines, telecommunications cables and any ancillary equipment and apparatus public and private drains, watercourses, sewers, ponds or culverts, service media (including the pipes, cables or conduits or apparatus of statutory undertakers); and\n(k) effect access and egress to and from the highway.\nRestrictive covenants\nA restrictive covenant over the land for the benefit of the remainder of the Order land to—\n(a) prevent anything to be done in or upon the land or any part thereof for the purpose of the erection of any buildings or construction erection or works of any kind (including the foundations or footings thereto) without the prior written consent of the undertaker;\n(b) to prevent the planting or growing within the land of any trees, shrubs or underwood without the consent in writing of the undertaker (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed provided that the proposed trees, shrubs or underwood would not cause damage to the relevant part of the authorised development nor make it materially more difficult or expensive to access the relevant part of the authorised development);\n(c) to prevent anything being done which may interfere with free flow and passage of electricity or telecommunications through the cables or support for the authorised development;\n(d) to prevent carrying out operations or actions (including but not limited to blasting and piling) which may obstruct, interrupt or interfere with the exercise of the rights or damage the authorised development.",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/567/schedule/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:00:48.162639+00:00"
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  "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."
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