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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-entertainment-resort-complex-bedford-special-development-no-2-order-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1322",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Entertainment Resort Complex, Bedford) Special Development (No. 2) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-entertainment-resort-complex-bedford-special-development-no-2-order-2025",
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  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order grants planning permission for development in, on, under or over certain land near Bedford (the “Order land”). The Order land is shown on a map, a copy of which is available for inspection, by appointment, at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, 2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF, and online from www.gov.uk.\nThis Order revokes the Town and Country Planning (Entertainment Resort Complex, Bedford) Special Development Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/1315) before it would have come into force. The Order is otherwise materially the same as the Order revoked, but typographical errors and other defects have been corrected. The Order is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of S.I. 2025/1315.\nThe Order has been made to enable an entertainment resort complex to be constructed and operated on the Order land (“the ERC”). As the ERC is expected to evolve continuously over time, the permission granted is for classes of development, described in Schedule 2, which between them cover the range of facilities and infrastructure that would be comprised in an ERC.\nEach class of development permitted covers both material changes in the use of buildings or other land, and a wide range of building, engineering and other operations carried out in relation to specified categories of “work”, including buildings, structures, facilities, infrastructure and spaces that result from development.\nPlanning permission granted by the Order is subject to conditions set out in Schedule 3, which are supplemented by a series of controls on the height of works set out in Schedule 4. A number of the conditions in Schedule 3 refer to documents submitted to the Secretary of State before the making of the Order (“reference documents”), which are listed in Schedule 1), or provide for documents to be submitted for subsequent approval or validation (“endorsement”) by the Secretary of State (as “submission documents”) before certain development can be carried out.\nWhen endorsed, submission documents become “controlling documents”, which must be complied with in respect of the development authorised by the Order. When endorsing submission documents, or endorsing amendments or variations to, or replacements of controlling documents or reference documents (“modifications”), the Secretary of State may impose further conditions, and these may be subsequently modified. The procedure for endorsement is set out in articles 6 and 7. Article 8 provides for reference documents and controlling documents, and the notices given by the Secretary of State under articles 6 and 7, to be made publicly available.\nA full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument: as the instrument does not regulate business activity, it is not in the scope of the Government’s Better Regulation Framework.\nFor illustrative purposes only a plan of the land to which this Order applies is appended below.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1322/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:08:22.499243+00:00"
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  "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."
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