{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/port-talbot-steelworks-generating-station-order-2015/schedule-2/paragraph-18",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1984",
  "legislation_title": "The Port Talbot Steelworks Generating Station Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/port-talbot-steelworks-generating-station-order-2015",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/18",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Contaminated land and groundwater",
  "text": "(1) No stage of the authorised development may be commenced until a written scheme for that stage to deal with the contamination of any land, including groundwater, which is likely to cause harm to persons, the environment or pollution of controlled waters has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority in consultation with the Natural Resources Body for Wales.\n(2) The scheme must include an investigation and risk assessment report, prepared by a competent person in accordance with the guidance document, which must contain—\n(a) an investigation of the extent, scale and nature of contamination;\n(b) an assessment of the potential risks to human health, the environment and controlled waters;\n(c) a piling method risk assessment; and\n(d) a remediation scheme to bring the site to a condition suitable for the intended use by removing any unacceptable risks to human health, the environment and controlled waters, which must contain—\n(i) details of remediation works to be undertaken;\n(ii) proposed remediation objectives and remediation criteria; and\n(iii) site management procedures.\n(3) The undertaker must carry out the remediation works in accordance with the approved scheme.\n(4) Construction of the authorised development must not commence until a verification report, which demonstrates the effectiveness of the approved remediation works (if required) carried out in accordance with sub-paragraph (3), has been submitted to and agreed in writing with the relevant planning authority.\n(5) If contaminated land not previously identified is found during the construction of the authorised development, no further works for the authorised development may be carried out until an investigation and remediation scheme has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority; and the scheme must include details of—\n(a) how the contaminated land is to be identified and assessed;\n(b) where remediation is required by the scheme, the remediation measures;\n(c) timescales for carrying out the remediation measures; and\n(d) any ongoing monitoring or mitigation requirements.\n(6) Any remediation measures identified in the investigation and remediation scheme mentioned in sub-paragraph (5) must be carried out in accordance with the approved scheme.\n(7) In this Requirement—\n“controlled waters” has the meaning given in Part 3 of the Water Resources Act 1991;\n“guidance document” means Land Contamination: A Guide for Developers (Welsh Local Government Association and the Environment Agency Wales, 2006).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 18 in force at 30.12.2015, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 104(1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The guide is available at this link: http://www.merthyr.gov.uk/media/1446/land-contamination-a-guide-for-developers.pdf."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1984/schedule/2/paragraph/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:29:34.498663+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}