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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/thames-water-utilities-limited-thames-tideway-tunnel-order-2014/schedule-16/part-3/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/2384",
  "legislation_title": "The Thames Water Utilities Limited (Thames Tideway Tunnel) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/thames-water-utilities-limited-thames-tideway-tunnel-order-2014",
  "path": "schedule/16/part/3/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "In this Schedule—\n“authorised project work” means any work forming part of the authorised project;\n“baseline monitoring” means any surveys carried out to determine and establish movements of the flood defences due to factors external to the authorised project including but not limited to seasonal variations or diurnal impacts due to tide or temperature;\n“CEMP” means the construction environment management plan to be produced for each site in accordance with the CoCP;\n“COCP” means the Code of Construction Practice Part A— General Requirements (document reference number APP205.01) or the Code of Construction Practice Part B— Site Specific Requirements (document reference number APP178.03 to APP178.49);\n(a)“construction” includes execution, placing, altering, replacing, relaying, removal and excavation and “construct” and “constructed” shall be construed accordingly;\n(b)“damage” includes but is not limited to scouring, erosion, loss of structural integrity and environmental damage to the drainage work or any flora or fauna dependent on the aquatic environment and “damaged” shall be construed accordingly;\n“detailed designs” means any information submitted under paragraph 5(1)a-l;\n“drainage work” means 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 or flood storage capacity;\n“engineering report” means a report of the structural condition of a flood defence as set out in paragraph 4(1);\n“ecological enhancements” means the inclusion of any features integral to or adjacent to the foreshore structures and any new, modified, or replaced flood defences that can support wildlife. This includes, but is not limited to, where practicable, the set back of flood defences to provide inter-tidal habitat and the creation of shelters for juvenile fish;\n“environmental duties” means the Agency’s duties in the Environment Act, the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 and the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive)(England and Wales) Regulations 2003 (SI 2003 no 3242);\n“fishery” means any waters containing fish, and fish in or migrating to or from such waters and the spawn, spawning grounds or food for such fish;\n“flood defences” means any bank, wall, embankment, bridge abutments, lock gates or other structure or any appliance (including any supporting anchorage system) that fulfils a function of preventing, or reducing the risk of, flooding to land or property;\n“flood defence monitoring plan” means a flood defence monitoring plan prepared in accordance with paragraph 4(2);\n“flood defence movement and settlement mitigation plan” means a flood defence movement and settlement mitigation plan prepared in accordance with paragraph 4(5);\n“flood storage capacity” means any land, which, taking account of flood defences, is expected to provide flood storage capacity for any main river;\n“flood defences likely to be impacted” means—\n(c)all flood defences within the order limits;\n(d)all flood defences within 16m of the order limits of any site;\n(e)all flood defences within the 1mm settlement contour for the final tunnel alignment,\nand “likely to impact a flood defence” shall be construed accordingly;\n“flood defences likely to be significantly impacted” means those flood defences identified and agreed between the undertaker and the Agency following the submission of relevant engineering reports;\n“main river” “means all watercourses shown as such on the statutory main river maps held by the Agency and the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, including any structure or appliance for controlling or regulating the flow of water into, in or out of the channel;\n“maintenance” has the same meaning as article 2 save for the exclusion of the works of inspection;\n“protective work” means any authorised project work, or work identified pursuant to the engineering report, necessary for the protection of flood defences and to be carried out prior to the construction of any authorised project work to which the protective work relates;\n“remedial works” means any proposed mitigation or measure or measures submitted by the undertaker under paragraph 5(4) or required by the Agency under paragraph 9 or paragraph 10;\n“scour and accretion monitoring and mitigation strategy” means a scour and accretion monitoring and mitigation strategy for the specified works in the foreshore to be submitted to the Agency including, but not limited to, results and clarification of existing and further works, and the extent, frequency, and form of the monitoring and mitigation for scour and accretion;\n“scour and accretion monitoring and mitigation plan” means a plan drawn up detailing the monitoring and mitigation proposals for each specified work prepared in accordance with the scour and accretion monitoring and mitigation strategy;\n“site” means Abbey Mills, Putney Embankment Foreshore, Carnwath Road Riverside, Dormay Street, Cremorne Wharf Depot, Chelsea Embankment Foreshore, Kirtling Street, Heathwall Pumping Station, Albert Embankment Foreshore, Victoria Embankment Foreshore, Blackfriars Bridge Foreshore, Chambers Wharf, Greenwich Pumping Station and King Edward Memorial Park Foreshore, or any of them;\n“specified day” means, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Agency and the undertaker, in relation to any specified work, maintenance work, remedial work or removal work submitted for approval under paragraph 5, the business day on which detailed designs of that work are received by the Agency under paragraph 5(1), 5(3), 5(4), or 5(5) and for the avoidance of doubt if any further information is requested by the Agency under paragraph 5(1)(l), 5(3)(d), 5(4)(d), or 5(5)(e) the specified day shall be the business day on which the Agency receives this information from the undertaker under paragraph 5;\n“specified works” means so much of any permanent or temporary work or operation excluding works of maintenance forming part of the authorised project (other than works required in an emergency) as is in, on, under or over a main river or drainage works or within 16 metres of a drainage work or is otherwise likely to—\n(f)affect any drainage works or the volumetric rate of flow of water in or flowing to or from any drainage works; or\n(g)affect the flow, purity or quality of water in any main river or other surface waters or ground water; or\n(h)cause obstruction to the free passage of fish or damage to any fishery; or\n(i)affect the conservation, distribution or use of water resources; or\n(j)affect the conservation value of the main river and habitats in its immediate vicinity;\n“TE2100” means the standards associated with the strategic direction for managing flood risk across the Thames estuary, including recommendations for action in short, medium and long term time periods to take account of sea level rise and climate change, as adopted and updated at the time by the Environment Agency.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 16 Pt. 3 para. 3 in force at 24.9.2014, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:03:40.087761+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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