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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-entertainment-resort-complex-bedford-special-development-no-2-order-2025/schedule-3/paragraph-16",
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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",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Construction traffic management scheme",
  "text": "(1) Until the criteria in sub-paragraph (3) are satisfied—\n(a) the aggregate number of movements into or out of the ERC area by relevant heavy-duty vehicles by way of all the construction access points from public roads identified in an endorsed CEMP may not exceed 1,000 on any calendar day;\n(b) the aggregate number of movements by all relevant motor vehicles—\n(i) along Manor Road, east of the Marston Vale Railway Line, in any direction, and\n(ii) comprising the whole or part of a journey of any length,\nmay not exceed 3,035 car-equivalent movements on any calendar day.\n(2) For the purposes of this paragraph—\n(a) a heavy duty vehicle or other vehicle is “relevant” if it moves across the Order land in connection with the carrying out of authorised development, for example, to deliver materials for use in construction work;\n(b) the movement of a motor vehicle—\n(i) other than a heavy-duty vehicle, is to be counted as one car-equivalent movement;\n(ii) that is a heavy-duty vehicle, is to be counted as two car-equivalent movements.\n(3) The criteria are that—\n(a) the site controller has submitted to the Secretary of State a scheme for approval (a “construction traffic management scheme”),\n(b) the Secretary of State has endorsed the scheme, and\n(c) subject to sub-paragraph (4)(b), the scheme has been implemented in full.\n(4) The construction traffic management scheme—\n(a) must set out the things to be done to—\n(i) widen, re-surface, locate additional structures on or beside, or otherwise alter or improve, an existing public road,\n(ii) construct a new public road, or\n(iii) route or divert traffic,\nso as to enable a road to accommodate larger numbers of car-equivalent movements by relevant motor vehicles than those specified in sub-paragraph (1)(a) and (b) without presenting an unacceptable risk to other road users;\n(b) may include proposals for restrictions on traffic—\n(i) expressed in terms of larger or smaller numbers of heavy-duty vehicle deliveries or car-equivalent movements than those set out in sub-paragraph (1), and\n(ii) that are to take effect in substitution for the restrictions set out in sub-paragraph (1) when the things to be done under the scheme, including in particular the carrying out of any development, have progressed to a stage specified in the scheme but are not yet completed, or when other conditions specified in the scheme have been met.\n(5) If, and to the extent that, a construction traffic management scheme, or any proposed modification of an endorsed construction traffic management scheme, contains proposals of the kind referred to in sub-paragraph (4)(b), the Secretary of State must not decide to endorse that scheme or modification unless the Secretary of State is satisfied that that decision meets the condition specified in article 7(7)(modification of reference documents, controlling documents and endorsement conditions).\n(6) Until an endorsed construction traffic management scheme has been implemented, the site controller must monitor, and keep a record of—\n(a) heavy-duty vehicle deliveries as described in sub-paragraph (1)(a), and\n(b) car-equivalent movements as described in sub-paragraph (1)(b),\nand make that record available to the Secretary of State upon request.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1322/schedule/3/paragraph/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:08:22.499243+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."
}