# The Springwell Solar Farm Order 2026, Paragraph 1: Interpretation

Extent: E+W

In this schedule—
“access rights” means rights over land to—
(a) alter, improve, form, maintain, retain, use (with or without vehicles, plant and machinery), remove, reinstate means of access to the authorised development including visibility splays and road widening or improvements and to remove impediments (including vegetation) to such access; and
(b) pass and repass on foot, with or without vehicles, plant and machinery (including rights to lay and use any temporary surface) for all purposes in connection with the authorised development;
“cable rights” means rights over land to—
(a) install, use, support, protect, inspect, alter, remove, replace, retain, renew, improve and maintain electrical underground cables, earthing cables, optical fibre cables, data cables, telecommunications cables and other services, works associated with such cables including bays, ducts, protection and safety measures and equipment, and other apparatus and structures;
(b) remain, pass and repass on foot, with or without vehicles, plant and machinery (including rights to lay and use any temporary surface or form a temporary compound) for all purposes in connection with the authorised development; and
(c) restrict and remove the erection of buildings or structures, restrict the altering of ground levels, restrict and remove vegetation and restrict the planting of trees or 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;
“public right of way rights” means rights over land to—
(a) alter, improve, form, maintain, retain, use, reinstate public rights of way; and
(b) pass and repass on foot, without vehicles, for all purposes in connection with the use of the public rights of way;
“substation connection rights” means rights over land to—
(a) install, use, support, protect, inspect, alter, remove, replace, retain, renew, improve and maintain electrical cables, earthing cables, optical fibre cables, data cables, telecommunications cables and other services, works associated with such cables including bays, ducts, protection and safety measures and equipment, and other apparatus and structures and to connect such cables and services to the National Grid Navenby Substation;
(b) install, use, support, protect, inspect, alter, remove, replace, retain, renew, improve and maintain watercourses, public sewers and drains and drainage apparatus and equipment;
(c) remain, pass and repass on foot, with or without vehicles, plant and machinery (including rights to lay and use any temporary surface or form a temporary compound) for all purposes in connection with the National Grid Navenby Substation works;
(d) restrict and remove the erection of buildings or structures, restrict the altering of ground levels, restrict and remove the planting of trees or 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
(e) install, use, support, protect, inspect, alter, remove, replace, retain, renew, improve and maintain soft landscaping and biodiversity measures; and
“vegetation maintenance rights” means rights over land to install, use, support, protect, inspect, alter, remove, replace, retain, renew, improve and maintain vegetation and restrict or prevent the removal of vegetation for the purposes of the authorised development and in connection with the authorised development.
(1)
Plot reference number shown on the Land Plans
(2)
Purposes for which rights over land may be required and restrictive covenants imposed
1/2
cable rights, vegetation maintenance rights
2/2
cable rights, vegetation maintenance rights
2/10
cable rights, vegetation maintenance rights
2/4
cable rights, vegetation maintenance rights
2/6
vegetation maintenance rights, access rights
2/9
cable rights
4/1
cable rights
4/3
public right of way rights
4/4
public right of way rights
4/5
cable rights
4/7
cable rights
4/9
cable rights
4/12
cable rights, vegetation maintenance rights
4/14
cable rights, vegetation maintenance rights
4/17
cable rights
4/18
cable rights
6/1
cable rights
6/2
cable rights
6/3
cable rights
6/4
cable rights, vegetation maintenance rights
6/5
cable rights
6/7
cable rights
7/1
cable rights
7/15
cable rights
7/16
cable rights
8/4
cable rights
8/6
cable rights, vegetation maintenance rights
8/8
cable rights
9/2
cable rights, vegetation maintenance rights
9/6
cable rights, vegetation maintenance rights
10/2
public right of way rights
10/3
cable rights, vegetation maintenance rights
11/1
substation connection rights
11/3
substation connection rights
11/4
substation connection rights
12/3
substation connection rights
12/4
substation connection rights
12/8
substation connection rights
12/9
substation connection rights
12/13
cable rights, vegetation maintenance rights
12/14
cable rights, vegetation maintenance rights
12/16
cable rights
12/17
cable rights
12/18
cable rights
12/19
cable rights
13/3
vegetation maintenance rights
13/6
cable rights, vegetation maintenance rights
13/8
cable rights
13/11
cable rights
14/2
cable rights
14/6
cable rights, vegetation maintenance rights
15/2
cable rights, vegetation maintenance rights
15/5
cable rights, vegetation maintenance rights
15/7
cable rights, public right of way rights
15/8
cable rights
15/10
cable rights
15/11
cable rights
15/13
cable rights

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/419/schedule/9/paragraph/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/springwell-solar-farm-order-2026/schedule-9/paragraph-1
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.

