{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/southampton-to-london-pipeline-development-consent-order-2020/schedule-2/paragraph-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/southampton-to-london-pipeline-development-consent-order-2020/schedule-2/paragraph-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/1099",
  "legislation_title": "The Southampton to London Pipeline Development Consent Order 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/southampton-to-london-pipeline-development-consent-order-2020",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/14",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Construction hours",
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2), (3) and (4), construction works must only take place between 0800 and 1800 on weekdays (except Public and Bank Holidays) and Saturdays, except in the event of an emergency.\n(2) In the event of an emergency, notification of that emergency must be given to the relevant planning authority and the relevant highway authority as soon as reasonably practicable.\n(3) The following operations may where necessary continue or take place on an exceptional basis outside the working hours referred to in sub-paragraph (1)—\n(a) trenchless construction techniques which cannot be interrupted;\n(b) filling, testing, dewatering and drying;\n(c) works required to mitigate delays to the construction of the authorised development due to extreme weather conditions; and\n(d) commissioning of the pipeline works.\n(4) Nothing in sub-paragraph (1) precludes—\n(a) the receipt of oversize deliveries to site and the undertaking of non-intrusive activities;\n(b) start-up and shut-down activities up to an hour either side of the core working hours and undertaken in compliance with the CEMP; and\n(c) works on a traffic sensitive street where so directed by the relevant highway authority pursuant to a permit granted under the permit schemes and following consultation by the relevant highway authority with the relevant planning authority under the terms of such scheme.\n(5) In this Requirement—\n(a) “emergency” means a situation where, if the relevant action is not taken, there will be adverse health, safety, security or environmental consequences that in the reasonable opinion of the undertaker would outweigh the adverse effects to the public (whether individuals, classes or generally as the case may be) of taking that action; and\n(b) “non-intrusive activities” means activities which would not create any discernible light, noise or vibration outside the Order limits.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1099/schedule/2/paragraph/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:24:39.657550+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."
}