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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/outer-dowsing-offshore-wind-farm-order-2026/schedule-18/paragraph-34",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/138",
  "legislation_title": "The Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind Farm Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/outer-dowsing-offshore-wind-farm-order-2026",
  "path": "schedule/18/paragraph/34",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The following provisions apply for the protection of the Agency unless otherwise agreed in writing between the undertaker and the Agency.\n(2) In this part of this Schedule—\n“Agency” means the Environment Agency;\n“Agency dredging operation” means any operation involving a dredger employed by the Agency or its contractors that is engaged in or preparing to discharge sand into a sinker pipe;\n“beach nourishment works” means work carried out annually by the Agency to nourish the existing coastline between Saltfleet and Gibraltar Point in Lincolnshire;\n“construction” includes execution, placing, altering, replacing, relaying and removal and excavation and “construct” and “constructed” is construed accordingly;\n“drainage work” means any main river and includes any land which provides or is expected to provide flood storage capacity for any main river and any bank, wall, embankment or other structure, or any appliance, constructed or used for land drainage, flood defence or tidal monitoring;\n“emergency” means any occurrence which presents a risk of—\n(a) serious flooding;\n(b) serious detrimental impact on drainage;\n(c) serious harm to the environment;\n“exempt flood risk activities” has the same meaning given in regulation 5 of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016;\n“fishery” means any waters containing fish and fish in, or migrating to or from, such waters and the spawn, spawning ground, habitat or food of such fish;\n“main river” has the same meaning given in section 113 of the Water Resources Act 1991;\n“plans” includes plans, sections, elevations, drawings, specifications, programmes, proposals, calculations, method statements;\n“remote defence” means any berm, wall or embankment that is constructed for the purposes of preventing or alleviating flooding from, or in connection with, any main river;\n“sea defence” means any bank, wall, embankment (any berm, counterwall or cross-wall connected to any such bank, wall or embankment), barrier, tidal sluice and other defence, whether natural or artificial, against the inundation of land by sea water or tidal water, including natural or artificial high ground which forms part of or makes a contribution to the efficiency of the defences of the Agency’s area against flooding, but excludes any sea defence works which are for the time being maintained by a coast protection authority under the provisions of the Coast Protection Act 1949 or by any local authority or any navigation, harbour or conservancy authority;\n“specified work” means so much of any work or operation authorised by this Order as is in, on, under, over or within—\n(a) 16 metres of the base of a sea defence which is likely to—\n(i) endanger the stability of, cause damage or reduce the effectiveness of that sea defence; or\n(ii) interfere with the Agency’s access to or along that sea defence or the Agency’s ability to undertake works to ensure the efficacy of that sea defence;\n(b) 8 metres of the base of a remote defence which is likely to—\n(i) endanger the stability of, cause damage or reduce the effectiveness of that remote defence, or\n(ii) interfere with the Agency’s access to or along that remote defence;\n(c) 16 metres of a drainage work or is otherwise likely to—\n(i) affect any drainage work or the volumetric rate of flow of water in or flowing to or from any drainage work;\n(ii) affect the flow, purity or quality of water in any watercourse or other surface waters\n(iii) cause obstruction to the free passage of fish or damage to any fishery;\n(iv) affect the conservation, distribution or use of water resources; or\n(v) affect the conservation value of the main river and habitats in its immediate vicinity;\n(d) 500 metres of any Agency dredging operation which is likely to interact or interfere with the Agency’s beach nourishment works;\nor which involves—\n(e) an activity that includes dredging, raising or taking of any sand, silt, ballast, clay, gravel or other materials from or off the bed or banks of a drainage work (or causing such materials to be dredged, raised or taken), including hydrodynamic dredging or desilting; and\n(f) any quarrying or excavation within 16 metres of a drainage work which is likely to cause damage to or endanger the stability of the banks or structure of that drainage work,\nbut does not include exempt flood risk activities;\n“watercourse” includes all rivers, streams, ditches, drains, cuts, culverts, dykes, sluices, basins, sewers and passages through which water flows except a public sewer.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:06:07.056087+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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