{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/outer-dowsing-offshore-wind-farm-order-2026/schedule-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/outer-dowsing-offshore-wind-farm-order-2026/schedule-7.json",
  "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/7",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Land in which only new rights etc. may be acquired",
  "text": "(1) Number of land shown on land plan\n(2) Purpose for which rights may be acquired\n01-001, 01-002\nA.All rights and restrictions necessary for the undertaker and/or those authorised by the undertaker—\n1. to install the cables by the use of directional drilling or other trenchless techniques only;\n2. to retain and use the cables for the purposes of the transmission of electricity and telecommunications;\n3. to benefit from continuous vertical and lateral support for the cables;\nB. A restrictive covenant over the land for the benefit of the remainder of the Order land to—\n(a) prevent anything being done in or upon the land or any part thereof for the purposes of—\n(i) the construction of any buildings; or\n(ii) the hard surfacing of the land;\n(b) prevent the planting of any trees or shrubs on the land without the consent in writing of the undertaker (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed provided that the proposed trees, or shrubs would not cause damage to the relevant part of the authorised development nor make it materially more difficult to maintain or to access the relevant part of the authorised development);\n(c) prevent the carrying out of any excavations or works or agricultural practices to a depth greater than 0.75 metre from the surface of the land, without the consent in writing of the undertaker (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed, with consent for trench digging requests relating to waterlogging to be determined within 24 hours, if the proposed activity would not cause damage to the relevant part of the authorised development nor make it materially more difficult to access or maintain the authorised development) provided that (for the avoidance of doubt)—\n(i) ordinary agricultural practices including but not limited to acts of cultivation including soil preparation, ploughing and sub-soiling, not exceeding 0.75 metre in depth from the surface of the land, do not require the consent of the undertaker; and\n(ii) flushing of land drainage systems, maintenance of outfalls and culverts of land drainage systems, clearance of vegetation (by use of machinery or by hand) and the operation of existing land drainage systems do not require the consent of the undertaker provided that no excavations take place to a depth greater than 0.75 metre.\n01-004, 01-005, 01-006, 01-007, 01-008, 01-009\nA. All rights and restrictions necessary for the undertaker and/or those authorised by the undertaker—\n1. to install the cables by the use of directional drilling or other trenchless techniques only;\n2. to retain and use the cables for the purposes of the transmission of electricity and telecommunications;\n3. to benefit from continuous vertical and lateral support for the cables;\nB. A restrictive covenant over the land for the benefit of the remainder of the Order land to—\n(d) prevent anything being done in or upon the land or any part thereof for the purposes of—\n(i) the construction of any buildings; or\n(ii) the hard surfacing of the land;\n(e) prevent the planting of any trees or shrubs on the land without the consent in writing of the undertaker (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed provided that the proposed trees, or shrubs would not cause damage to the relevant part of the authorised development nor make it materially more difficult to maintain or to access the relevant part of the authorised development);\n(f) prevent the carrying out of any excavations or works or agricultural practices to a depth greater than 0.75 metre from the surface of the land, without the consent in writing of the undertaker (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed, with consent for trench digging requests relating to waterlogging to be determined within 24 hours, if the proposed activity would not cause damage to the relevant part of the authorised development nor make it materially more difficult to access or maintain the authorised development) provided that (for the avoidance of doubt)—\n(i) ordinary agricultural practices including but not limited to acts of cultivation including soil preparation, ploughing and sub-soiling, not exceeding 0.75 metre in depth from the surface of the land, do not require the consent of the undertaker; and\n(ii) flushing of land drainage systems, maintenance of outfalls and culverts of land drainage systems, clearance of vegetation (by use of machinery or by hand) and the operation of existing land drainage systems do not require the consent of the undertaker provided that no excavations take place to a depth greater than 0.75 metre.\n01-010, 01-013, 01-014, 01-015, 01-016\nA. All rights and restrictions necessary for the undertaker and/or those authorised by the undertaker to enter onto, pass and repass and remain on the land with or without all necessary plant, vehicles, machinery, materials, drilling fluids, apparatus, temporary structures and equipment and—\n1 the right to install the cables by way of (but not limited to) digging trenches, the use of directional drilling, auger boring, thrust boring, micro tunnelling or pipe ramming or other similar trenchless techniques;\n2. the right to retain and use the cables and jointing installations for the purposes of the transmission of electricity and telecommunications;\n3. the right to benefit from continuous vertical and lateral support for the cables and jointing installations;\n4. the right to benefit from continuous vertical and lateral support for the pipes, cables, conduits, service media and apparatus installed in, under, or over the land;\n5. the right to carry out terrestrial work activities;\n6. the right to access adjoining land and highway;\n7. the right to place and use plant, vehicles, machinery, materials, drilling fluids, apparatus, equipment and temporary structures on and within the land;\n8. the right to remove and discharge water from the land;\n9. the right to remove, store and stockpile materials (including excavated material) within the land;\n10. the right to retain, maintain, straighten, widen, repair, alter, upgrade and use existing access routes for the purposes of accessing the land, adjoining land and highway;\n11. the right to erect temporary signage and provide measures for the benefit of public and personnel safety;\n12. the right to fell, prune, cut, coppice, alter, lop, uproot and replant trees, shrubs and hedges, and remove roots of trees, shrubs and hedges;\n13. the right to install, execute, implement, retain, repair, improve, renew, remove, relocate and plant trees, woodland, shrubs, hedgerows, seeding and other ecological measures together with the right to maintain, inspect and replant trees, shrubs and landscaping;\n14. the right to install, execute, implement, retain, repair, improve, renew, relocate, maintain and carry out mitigation, maintenance, remediation and/or enhancement works;\n15. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove pipes, cables, conduits, service media or apparatus that are used for the purposes of transmitting or distributing electricity, communications, gas, oil, water supply, sewerage and drainage (including the pipes, cables, conduits, service media or apparatus of statutory undertakers);\n16. the right to remove archaeological artefacts where they would prevent or cause it to be materially more difficult to undertake terrestrial work activities or where leaving such archaeological artefacts in situ would materially increase the cost of the terrestrial work activities;\n17. the right to remove fences, hedges, gates or other barriers during any period during which terrestrial work activities are being undertaken (subject to the prior erection of any temporary stock proof fencing as is reasonably required) and the replacement, replanting or re-instatement of fences, hedges or other barriers;\n18. the right to carry out surveys including for site investigation and environmental surveys (including without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, topographic, drainage, archaeological, geotechnical, geoenvironmental, ecological and ground stability site investigations and surveys), making of boreholes, trial pits and archaeological trenches and field stripping, auger hole sampling and the taking of soil and other samples;\n19. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove cable marker posts to identify the location of the cables as required for routine integrity testing;\n20. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove temporary access roads, hard standing and other surface materials including (but not limited to) matting, aggregate, trackway, stone, tarmacadam, terram;\n21. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove public and private drains, watercourses, sewers, ponds or culverts, and to drain into and manage waterflows in any public and private drains, watercourses, sewers, ponds or culverts including (but not limited to) by way of damming and overpumping;\n22. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove supporting or protective structures (including the bridging over of or protection of the apparatus of the statutory undertakers);\n23. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove temporary haul roads;\n24. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove temporary welfare facilities (including but not limited to portakabins, portaloos and welfare equipment);\n25. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove fencing, gates, walls, barriers or other means of enclosure;\nB. A restrictive covenant over the land for the benefit of the remainder of the Order land to—\n(g) prevent anything being done in or upon the land or any part thereof for the purposes of—\n(i) the construction of any buildings; or\n(ii) the hard surfacing of the land;\n(h) prevent the planting of any trees or shrubs on the land without the consent in writing of the undertaker (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed provided that the proposed trees, or shrubs would not cause damage to the relevant part of the authorised development nor make it materially more difficult to maintain or to access the relevant part of the authorised development);\n(i) prevent the carrying out of any excavations or works or agricultural practices to a depth greater than 0.75 metre from the surface of the land, without the consent in writing of the undertaker (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed, with consent for trench digging requests relating to waterlogging to be determined within 24 hours, if the proposed activity would not cause damage to the relevant part of the authorised development nor make it materially more difficult to access or maintain the authorised development) provided that (for the avoidance of doubt)—\n(i) ordinary agricultural practices including but not limited to acts of cultivation including soil preparation, ploughing and sub-soiling, not exceeding 0.75 metre in depth from the surface of the land, do not require the consent of the undertaker; and\n(ii) flushing of land drainage systems, maintenance of outfalls and culverts of land drainage systems, clearance of vegetation (by use of machinery or by hand) and the operation of existing land drainage systems do not require the consent of the undertaker provided that no excavations take place to a depth greater than 0.75 metre.\n01-017, 01-017a, 01-018, 02-006, 02-007, 02-008, 02-009, 02-010, 02-011, 02-012, 02-013, 03-008, 03-009, 03-010, 03-013, 03-015, 03-016, 03-017, 03-018, 03-021, 03-022, 03-025, 03-026, 03-028, 03-029, 03-030, 04-004, 04-006, 04-011, 04-012, 04-016, 04-017, 04-018, 04-019, 04-020, 04-021, 04-023, 05-002, 05-003, 05-004, 05-006, 05-007, 05-008, 05-009, 05-010, 05-011, 05-014, 05-015, 05-016, 05-017, 05-018, 05-021, 06-001, 06-002, 06-005, 06-007, 06-008, 06-010, 06-012, 06-017, 06-018, 06-019, 06-021, 07-003, 07-005, 07-006, 07-007, 08-004, 08-005, 08-006, 08-007, 08-013, 08-014, 08-015, 08-016, 09-002, 09-003, 09-004, 09-004a, 09-004b, 09-006, 09-011, 09-018, 09-018a, 09-022, 10-002, 10-004, 10-005, 10-006, 10-011, 10-012, 10-016, 10-017, 10-018, 11-003, 11-006, 11-007, 11-008, 11-010, 11-012, 11-015, 11-016, 11-017, 11-018, 11-019, 11-020, 11-021, 11-022, 11-023, 12-006, 12-007, 12-008, 12-009, 12-010, 12-012, 12-013, 12-018, 12-019, 12-020, 13-001, 13-002, 13-003, 13-004, 13-010, 13-011, 13-018, 13-019, 13-020, 13-021, 14-004, 14-005, 14-006, 14-007, 14-008, 14-009, 14-011, 14-012, 14-013, 14-014, 14-015, 15-004, 15-006, 15-007, 15-008, 15-009, 15-010, 15-011, 15-012, 15-013, 15-015, 15-016, 15-041, 15-042, 15-043, 15-044, 15-046, 15-047, 15-048, 15-049, 15-050, 15-053, 15-054, 15-055, 15-056, 15-057, 16-003, 16-004, 16-005, 16-006, 16-007, 16-009, 16-010, 16-011, 16-012, 16-013, 16-014, 16-015, 16-016, 16-020, 16-021, 16-022, 16-023, 16-024, 16-025, 16-027, 16-029, 16-030, 16-031, 17-001, 17-002, 17-003, 17-006, 17-007, 17-008, 17-009, 17-010, 17-011, 17-012, 17-013, 17-014, 17-015, 17-016, 17-018, 17-021, 17-022, 17-023, 17-024, 17-026, 17-027, 17-028, 17-029, 17-030, 17-034, 17-035, 18-001, 18-002, 18-003, 18-004, 18-005, 18-006, 18-007, 18-009, 18-010, 18-011, 18-013, 18-014, 18-016, 18-017, 18-018, 18-019, 18-021, 18-023, 18-024, 18-025, 18-026, 18-028, 18-030, 18-033, 18-034, 18-037, 18-038, 19-001, 19-002, 19-003, 19-004, 19-006, 19-008, 19-009, 19-010, 19-011, 19-012, 19-013, 19-014, 19-015, 19-016, 19-017, 19-018, 19-019, 19-020, 19-021, 19-022, 19-024, 19-024a, 19-025, 20-004, 20-005, 20-006, 20-008, 21-003, 21-004, 21-005, 21-006, 21-008, 21-009, 21-011, 22-004, 22-005, 22-009, 22-011, 22-012, 22-013, 22-018, 22-021, 22-022, 22-023, 22-026, 22-027, 22-028, 22-031, 22-032, 23-001, 23-002, 23-005, 23-008, 23-009, 23-010, 23-011, 23-012, 23-013, 23-015, 23-016, 23-019, 23-020, 23-021, 23-022, 23-024, 23-026, 23-027, 23-030, 23-032, 23-033, 23-034, 24-002, 24-003, 24-005, 24-010, 24-013, 25-001, 25-002, 25-003, 25-004, 25-005, 25-006, 25-007, 25-008, 25-009, 25-010, 25-011, 25-012, 25-013, 25-014, 25-017, 25-018, 25-019, 25-020, 25-021, 25-022, 25-024, 25-025, 25-026, 25-027, 25-030, 25-031, 25-032, 25-033, 26-003, 26-003a, 26-005, 26-005a, 26-006, 26-007, 26-008, 26-009, 26-009a, 26-009b, 26-011, 26-012, 26-013, 26-014, 26-016, 26-017, 26-018, 26-022, 26-023, 26-024, 27-001, 27-002, 27-005, 27-005a, 27-005b, 27-006, 27-007, 27-008, 27-009, 27-010, 27-011, 27-015, 27-019, 27-021, 27-023, 27-024, 27-027, 27-030, 28-001, 28-002, 28-003, 28-006, 28-007, 28-007a, 28-011, 28-012, 28-014, 28-016, 28-017, 28-018, 28-019, 29-004, 29-005, 29-008, 29-009, 29-010, 29-013, 30-002, 30-005, 30-006, 30-007, 30-008, 30-009, 30-010, 30-013, 30-014, 30-015, 30-016, 30-017, 30-020, 30-021, 30-022, 30-023, 30-024, 31-001, 31-002, 31-003, 31-004, 31-005, 31-006, 31-007, 31-008, 31-009, 31-010, 32-003, 32-004, 32-004a, 32-005, 32-006, 32-007, 32-008, 32-009, 32-010, 32-011, 32-014, 32-015, 32-016, 32-017, 32-018, 32-019, 32-025, 32-026, 33-001, 33-002, 33-003, 33-004, 33-005, 33-008, 33-009, 33-010, 33-012, 33-013, 33-014, 33-015, 33-016, 33-026, 33-027, 33-028, 33-029, 33-035, 33-036, 33-037, 33-038, 33-038a, 33-039, 33-040, 34-003, 34-004, 34-005, 34-006, 34-007, 34-014, 34-015, 34-016, 34-018, 34-019, 34-020, 34-023, 37-001, 37-002, 37-003, 37-004, 37-009, 37-011, 37-012, 38-005, 38-006, 38-007, 38-008, 39-001, 39-002, 39-003, 39-004, 39-005, 39-006, 39-007, 39-008, 39-009, 39-014, 39-015, 39-016, 40-007, 40-010, 41-002, 41-003, 42-015, 42-016, 42-017, 42-018, 42-019, 42-020, 42-021, 42-022, 42-023, 42-024, 42-025, 43-001, 43-002, 43-003, 43-004, 43-005, 43-006, 43-007, 43-008, 43-009, 43-010, 43-011, 43-012, 43-013, 43-014, 43-015, 43-016, 43-017, 43-018, 43-019, 43-020, 43-021, 44-001, 44-002, 44-003, 44-004, 44-005, 44-006, 44-007, 44-008, 44-009, 44-010, 44-011, 44-012, 44-013, 44-014, 45-025, 45-026, 45-027, 45-028, 45-029, 45-030, 45-031, 45-032, 45-032a\nA. All rights and restrictions necessary for the undertaker and/or those authorised by the undertaker to enter onto, pass and repass and remain on the land with or without all necessary plant, vehicles, machinery, materials, drilling fluids, apparatus, temporary structures and equipment and—\n1. the right to install the cables by way of (but not limited to) digging trenches, the use of directional drilling, auger boring, thrust boring, micro tunnelling or pipe ramming or other similar trenchless techniques;\n2. the right to retain and use the cables and jointing installations for the purposes of the transmission of electricity and telecommunications;\n3. the right to benefit from continuous vertical and lateral support for the cables and jointing installations;\n4. the right to benefit from continuous vertical and lateral support for the pipes, cables, conduits, service media and apparatus installed in, under, or over the land;\n5. the right to carry out terrestrial work activities;\n6. the right to access adjoining land and highway;\n7. the right to place and use plant, vehicles, machinery, materials, drilling fluids, apparatus, equipment and temporary structures on and within the land;\n8. the right to remove and discharge water from the land;\n9. the right to remove, store and stockpile materials (including excavated material) within the land;\n10. the right to retain, maintain, straighten, widen, repair, alter, upgrade and use existing access routes for the purposes of accessing the land, adjoining land and highway;\n11. the right to erect temporary signage and provide measures for the benefit of public and personnel safety;\n12. the right to fell, prune, cut, coppice, alter, lop, uproot and replant trees, shrubs and hedges, and remove roots of trees, shrubs and hedges;\n13. the right to install, execute, implement, retain, repair, improve, renew, remove, relocate and plant trees, woodland, shrubs, hedgerows, seeding and other ecological measures together with the right to maintain, inspect and replant trees, shrubs and landscaping;\n14. the right to install, execute, implement, retain, repair, improve, renew, relocate, maintain and carry out mitigation, maintenance, remediation and/or enhancement works;\n15. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove pipes, cables, conduits, service media or apparatus that are used for the purposes of transmitting or distributing electricity, communications, gas, oil, water supply, sewerage and drainage (including the pipes, cables, conduits, service media or apparatus of statutory undertakers);\n16. the right to remove archaeological artefacts where they would prevent or cause it to be materially more difficult to undertake terrestrial work activities or where leaving such archaeological artefacts in situ would materially increase the cost of the terrestrial work activities;\n17. the right to remove fences, hedges, gates or other barriers during any period during which terrestrial work activities are being undertaken (subject to the prior erection of any temporary stock proof fencing as is reasonably required) and the replacement, replanting or re-instatement of fences, hedges or other barriers;\n18. the right to carry out surveys including for site investigation and environmental surveys (including without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, topographic, drainage, archaeological, geotechnical, geoenvironmental, ecological and ground stability site investigations and surveys), making of boreholes, trial pits and archaeological trenches and field stripping, auger hole sampling and the taking of soil and other samples;\n19. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove cable marker posts to identify the location of the cables as required for routine integrity testing;\n20. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove temporary access roads, hard standing and other surface materials including (but not limited to) matting, aggregate, trackway, stone, tarmacadam, terram;\n21. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove public and private drains, watercourses, sewers, ponds or culverts, and to drain into and manage waterflows in any public and private drains, watercourses, sewers, ponds or culverts including (but not limited to) by way of damming and overpumping;\n22. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove supporting or protective structures (including the bridging over of or protection of the apparatus of the statutory undertakers);\n23. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove temporary haul roads;\n24. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove temporary barriers for the protection of fauna;\n25. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove temporary noise alleviation measures;\n26. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove temporary paths and bridleways for public use;\n27. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove temporary welfare facilities (including but not limited to portakabins, portaloos and welfare equipment);\n28. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove fencing, gates, walls, barriers or other means of enclosure;\nB. A restrictive covenant over the land for the benefit of the remainder of the Order land to—\n(j) prevent anything being done in or upon the land or any part thereof for the purposes of—\n(i) the construction of any buildings; or\n(ii) the hard surfacing of the land;\n(k) prevent the planting of any trees or shrubs on the land without the consent in writing of the undertaker (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed provided that the proposed trees, or shrubs would not cause damage to the relevant part of the authorised development nor make it materially more difficult to maintain or to access the relevant part of the authorised development);\n(l) prevent the carrying out of any excavations or works or agricultural practices to a depth greater than 0.75 metre from the surface of the land, without the consent in writing of the undertaker (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed, with consent for trench digging requests relating to waterlogging to be determined within 24 hours, if the proposed activity would not cause damage to the relevant part of the authorised development nor make it materially more difficult to access or maintain the authorised development) provided that (for the avoidance of doubt)—\n(i) ordinary agricultural practices including but not limited to acts of cultivation including soil preparation, ploughing and sub-soiling, not exceeding 0.75 metre in depth from the surface of the land, do not require the consent of the undertaker; and\n(ii) flushing of land drainage systems, maintenance of outfalls and culverts of land drainage systems, clearance of vegetation (by use of machinery or by hand) and the operation of existing land drainage systems do not require the consent of the undertaker provided that no excavations take place to a depth greater than 0.75 metre.\n09-012, 09-013, 09-016, 09-017\nA. All rights and restrictions necessary for the undertaker and/or those authorised by the Undertaker—\n1. to install the cables by the use of directional drilling or other trenchless techniques only;\n2. to retain and use the Cables for the purposes of the transmission of electricity and telecommunications;\n3. to benefit from continuous vertical and lateral support for the cables;\n4. to access the land temporarily (and during the construction phase of the authorised project only) with or without vehicles and machinery so as to remove materials (arising as a result of works to install the cables) from the land;\n5. to access the land temporarily with or without vehicles and machinery to carry out surveys including for site investigation and environmental surveys (including without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, topographic, drainage, archaeological, geotechnical, geoenvironmental, ecological and ground stability site investigations and surveys), making of boreholes, trial pits and archaeological trenches and field stripping, auger hole sampling and the taking of soil and other samples;\nB. A restrictive covenant over the land for the benefit of the remainder of the Order land to prevent anything being done in or upon the land or any part thereof which interferes with or might interfere with the exercise of the rights or the use of the cables or in any way render the cables in breach of any statute or regulation for the time being in force and applicable thereto.\n45-046a, 45-054, 45-058, 45-062, 46-016, 46-023, 46-024, 46-025, 47-032, 47-033, 48-014, 48-015, 48-017, 48-018, 48-019, 48-020, 48-021, 48-022, 48-023, 48-024, 48-025, 49-007, 49-008, 49-009, 49-010, 50-002, 50-003, 50-004, 50-005, 50-006, 50-006a, 50-007, 50-007a, 51-001, 51-001a, 51-002, 51-003, 51-004, 51-005, 51-006, 51-007, 51-008, 51-009, 51-010, 51-011, 51-012, 51-013, 51-014, 51-015\nA. All rights and restrictions necessary for the undertaker and/or those authorised by the undertaker to enter onto, pass and repass and remain on the land with or without all necessary plant, vehicles, machinery, materials, drilling fluids, apparatus, temporary structures and equipment and—\n1. the right to install the cables by way of (but not limited to) digging trenches, the use of directional drilling, auger boring, thrust boring, micro tunnelling or pipe ramming or other similar trenchless techniques;\n2. the right to retain and use the cables and jointing installations for the purposes of the transmission of electricity and telecommunications;\n3. the right to benefit from continuous vertical and lateral support for the cables and jointing installations;\n4. the right to benefit from continuous vertical and lateral support for the pipes, cables, conduits, service media and apparatus installed in, under, or over the land;\n5. the right to carry out terrestrial work activities;\n6. the right to access adjoining land and highway;\n7. the right to place and use plant, vehicles, machinery, materials, drilling fluids, apparatus, equipment and temporary structures on and within the land;\n8. the right to remove and discharge water from the land;\n9. the right to remove, store and stockpile materials (including excavated material) within the land;\n10. the right to erect temporary signage and provide measures for the benefit of public and personnel safety;\n11. the right to fell, prune, cut, coppice, alter, lop, uproot and replant trees, shrubs and hedges, and remove roots of trees, shrubs and hedges;\n12. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove pipes, cables, conduits, service media or apparatus that are used for the purposes of transmitting or distributing electricity, communications, gas, oil, water supply, sewerage and drainage (including the pipes, cables, conduits, service media or apparatus of statutory undertakers);\n13. the right to remove archaeological artefacts where they would prevent or cause it to be materially more difficult to undertake terrestrial work activities or where leaving such archaeological artefacts in situ would materially increase the cost of the terrestrial work activities;\n14. the right to remove fences, hedges, gates or other barriers during any period during which terrestrial work activities are being undertaken (subject to the prior erection of any temporary stock proof fencing as is reasonably required) and the replacement, replanting or re-instatement of fences, hedges or other barriers;\n15. the right to carry out surveys including for site investigation and environmental surveys (including without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, topographic, drainage, archaeological, geotechnical, geoenvironmental, ecological and ground stability site investigations and surveys), making of boreholes, trial pits and archaeological trenches and field stripping, auger hole sampling and the taking of soil and other samples;\n16. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove cable marker posts to identify the location of the cables as required for routine integrity testing;\n17. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove temporary access roads, hard standing and other surface materials including (but not limited to) matting, aggregate, trackway, stone, tarmacadam, terram;\n18. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove public and private drains, watercourses, sewers, ponds or culverts, and to drain into and manage waterflows in any public and private drains, watercourses, sewers, ponds or culverts including (but not limited to) by way of damming and overpumping;\n19. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove supporting or protective structures (including the bridging over of or protection of the apparatus of the statutory undertakers);\n20. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove temporary haul roads;\n21. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove temporary welfare facilities (including but not limited to portakabins, portaloos and welfare equipment);\n22. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove fencing, gates, walls, barriers or other means of enclosure;\nB. A restrictive covenant over the land for the benefit of the remainder of the Order land to—\n(m) prevent anything being done in or upon the land or any part thereof for the purposes of—\n(i) the construction of any buildings; or\n(ii) the hard surfacing of the land;\n(n) prevent the planting of any trees or shrubs on the land without the consent in writing of the undertaker (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed provided that the proposed trees, or shrubs would not cause damage to the relevant part of the authorised development nor make it materially more difficult to maintain or to access the relevant part of the authorised development);\n(o) prevent the carrying out of any excavations or works or agricultural practices to a depth greater than 0.75 metre from the surface of the land, without the consent in writing of the undertaker (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed, with consent for trench digging requests relating to waterlogging to be determined within 24 hours, if the proposed activity would not cause damage to the relevant part of the authorised development nor make it materially more difficult to access or maintain the authorised development) provided that (for the avoidance of doubt)—\n(i) ordinary agricultural practices including but not limited to acts of cultivation including soil preparation, ploughing and sub-soiling, not exceeding 0.75 metre in depth from the surface of the land, do not require the consent of the undertaker; and\n(ii) flushing of land drainage systems, maintenance of outfalls and culverts of land drainage systems, clearance of vegetation (by use of machinery or by hand) and the operation of existing land drainage systems do not require the consent of the undertaker provided that no excavations take place to a depth greater than 0.75 metre.\n15-032, 15-035, 15-028, 15-033, 15-031, 15-030, 15-034, 15-036, 15-029\nA. All rights and restrictions necessary for the undertaker and/or those authorised by the undertaker to enter onto, pass and repass and remain on the land with or without all necessary plant, vehicles, machinery, materials, drilling fluids, apparatus, temporary structures and equipment and—\n1. the right to carry out terrestrial work activities;\n2. the right to access adjoining land and highway including use of the existing or any replacement bridge;\n3. the right to place and use plant, vehicles, machinery, materials, drilling fluids, apparatus, equipment and temporary structures on and within the land;\n4. the right to construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, protect, make safe, replace and remove the bridge and supporting structures on or over or in the land;\n5. the right to remove, store and stockpile materials (including excavated material) within the land;\n6. the right to retain, maintain, straighten, widen, repair, alter, upgrade and use existing access routes for the purposes of accessing the land, adjoining land and highway;\n7. the right to erect temporary signage and provide measures for the benefit of public and personnel safety;\n8. the right to fell, prune, cut, coppice, alter, lop, uproot and replant trees, shrubs and hedges, and remove roots of trees, shrubs and hedges;\n9. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove pipes, cables, conduits, service media or apparatus that are used for the purposes of transmitting or distributing electricity, communications, gas, oil, water supply, sewerage and drainage (including the pipes, cables, conduits, service media or apparatus of statutory undertakers);\n10. the right to remove archaeological artefacts where they would prevent or cause it to be materially more difficult to undertake terrestrial work activities or where leaving such archaeological artefacts in situ would materially increase the cost of the terrestrial work activities;\n11. the right to remove fences, hedges, gates or other barriers during any period during which terrestrial work activities are being undertaken (subject to the prior erection of any temporary stock proof fencing as is reasonably required) and the replacement, replanting or re-instatement of fences, hedges or other barriers;\n12. the right to carry out surveys including for site investigation and environmental surveys (including without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, topographic, drainage, archaeological, geotechnical, geoenvironmental, ecological and ground stability site investigations and surveys), making of boreholes, trial pits and archaeological trenches and field stripping, auger hole sampling and the taking of soil and other samples;\n13. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove hard standing and other surface materials including (but not limited to) matting, aggregate, trackway, stone, tarmacadam, terram;\n14. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove supporting or protective structures (including the bridging over of or protection of the apparatus of the statutory undertakers);\n15. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove fencing, gates, walls, barriers or other means of enclosure.\n45-002, 45-003, 45-004, 45-006, 45-007, 45-009, 45-010, 45-011, 45-012, 45-013, 45-014, 45-016, 45-017, 45-018, 45-019, 45-020, 45-022, 45-034, 45-035, 45-036, 45-037, 45-038, 45-042, 45-043, 45-044, 45-045, 45-046, 45-047, 45-048, 45-049, 45-049a, 45-051, 45-051a, 45-052, 45-052a, 45-055, 45-056, 45-057, 45-059, 45-060, 45-061, 45-063, 45-064, 45-065, 45-065a, 45-067, 45-069, 45-073, 46-001, 46-004, 46-005, 46-007, 46-009, 46-010, 46-011, 46-012, 46-013, 46-014, 46-015, 46-018, 46-019, 46-020, 46-027, 46-028, 46-029, 46-030, 46-031, 46-032, 46-034, 46-035, 46-037a, 46-036, 46-038, 46-039, 46-040, 46-042, 46-043, 46-044a, 46-045, 46-046, 46-047, 47-007, 47-010, 47-012, 47-013, 47-014, 47-015, 47-016, 47-018, 47-019, 47-020, 47-021, 47-022, 47-023, 47-024, 47-025, 47-027, 47-036, 47-037, 47-038, 48-001, 48-003, 48-004, 48-008, 48-009, 48-010, 48-011, 48-013\nA. All rights and restrictions necessary for the undertaker and/or those authorised by the undertaker to enter onto, pass and repass and remain on the land with or without all necessary plant, vehicles, machinery, materials, drilling fluids, apparatus, temporary structures and equipment and—\n1. the right to carry out terrestrial work activities;\n2. the right to access adjoining land and highway;\n3. the right to place and use plant, vehicles, machinery, materials, apparatus, equipment and temporary structures on and within the land;\n4. the right to remove and discharge water from the land;\n5. the right to remove, store and stockpile materials (including excavated material) within the land;\n6. the right to retain, maintain, straighten, widen, repair, alter, upgrade and use existing access routes for the purposes of accessing the land, adjoining land and highway;\n7. the right to erect temporary signage and provide measures for the benefit of public and personnel safety;\n8. the right to fell, prune, cut, coppice, alter, lop, uproot and replant trees, shrubs and hedges, and remove roots of trees, shrubs and hedges;\n9. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove pipes, cables, conduits, service media or apparatus that are used for the purposes of transmitting or distributing electricity, communications, gas, oil, water supply, sewerage and drainage (including the pipes, cables, conduits, service media or apparatus of statutory undertakers);\n10. the right to remove archaeological artefacts where they would prevent or cause it to be materially more difficult to undertake terrestrial work activities or where leaving such archaeological artefacts in situ would materially increase the cost of the terrestrial work activities;\n11. the right to remove fences, hedges, gates or other barriers during any period during which terrestrial work activities are being undertaken (subject to the prior erection of any temporary stock proof fencing as is reasonably required) and the replacement, replanting or re-instatement of fences, hedges or other barriers;\n12. the right to carry out surveys including for site investigation and environmental surveys (including without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, topographic, drainage, archaeological, geotechnical, geoenvironmental, ecological and ground stability site investigations and surveys), making of boreholes, trial pits and archaeological trenches and field stripping, auger hole sampling and the taking of soil and other samples;\n13. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove hard standing and other surface materials including (but not limited to) matting, aggregate, trackway, stone, tarmacadam, terram;\n14. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove public and private drains, watercourses, sewers or culverts, and to drain into and manage waterflows in any public and private drains, watercourses, sewers or culverts;\n15. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove supporting or protective structures (including the bridging over of or protection of the apparatus of the statutory undertakers);\n16. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove temporary paths and bridleways for public use;\n17. the right to lay down, construct, install, retain, adjust, alter, test, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, survey, cleanse, re-lay, connect into, divert, protect, make safe, make incapable of operation, replace and remove fencing, gates, walls, barriers or other means of enclosure;\nB. A restrictive covenant over the land for the benefit of the remainder of the Order land to—\n(p) prevent anything being done in or upon the land or any part thereof for the purposes of—\n(i) the construction of any buildings; or\n(ii) the hard surfacing of the land;\n(q) prevent the planting of any trees or shrubs on the land without the consent in writing of the undertaker (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed provided that the proposed trees, or shrubs would not cause damage to the relevant part of the authorised development nor make it materially more difficult to maintain or to access the relevant part of the authorised development);\n(r) prevent the carrying out of any excavations or works or agricultural practices to a depth greater than 0.75 metre from the surface of the land, without the consent in writing of the undertaker (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed, with consent for trench digging requests relating to waterlogging to be determined within 24 hours, if the proposed activity would not cause damage to the relevant part of the authorised development nor make it materially more difficult to access or maintain the authorised development) provided that (for the avoidance of doubt)—\n(i) ordinary agricultural practices including but not limited to acts of cultivation including soil preparation, ploughing and sub-soiling, not exceeding 0.75 metre in depth from the surface of the land, do not require the consent of the undertaker; and\n(ii) flushing of land drainage systems, maintenance of outfalls and culverts of land drainage systems, clearance of vegetation (by use of machinery or by hand) and the operation of existing land drainage systems do not require the consent of the undertaker provided that no excavations take place to a depth greater than 0.75 metre.\n01-011, 01-012, 09-007, 09-008, 09-009, 09-010, 15-019, 15-025, 15-038, 15-039, 45-041a, 46-022, 46-041, 47-006, 47-008, 47-009, 47-014a\nA. All rights and restrictions necessary for the undertaker and/or those authorised by the undertaker to enter onto, pass and repass and remain on the land with or without all necessary plant, vehicles, machinery, materials, drilling fluids, apparatus, temporary structures and equipment and—\n1. the right to carry out terrestrial work activities;\n2. the right to access adjoining land and highway.",
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