# The Town and Country Planning (Entertainment Resort Complex, Bedford) Special Development (No. 2) Order 2025, Paragraph 4: Core controls


(1) The site controller must ensure that no authorised development is carried out except by, on behalf of, or with the consent of, the site controller.
(2) If the site controller makes a request—
(a) under article 6 (endorsement of submission documents) for endorsement of a submission document, or
(b) under article 7 (modification of reference documents, controlling documents and endorsement conditions) for endorsement of a modification of a reference document, controlling document or endorsement condition,
it is deemed to have consented to any proposed authorised development to which the submission document, modified reference document, controlling document or endorsement condition relates.
(3) No class 1 authorised work may operate on or after the day on which the Soft Opening Period begins, as notified to the Secretary of State by the site controller under condition 70(1)(b)(i) (Soft Opening Period and security and emergency management plan), unless the site controller or its affiliates—
(a) subject to sub-paragraph (4), own the freehold interest in, or otherwise have control of, those parts of the Order land where the specified habitats are located,
(b) own the freehold interest in any land comprising the ticketed area,
(c) control all buildings or structures in, on, under or over the Order land from which central control of security functions relating to the ERC is exercised, and
(d) own the freehold interest in any land in, on, under or over which the buildings or structures referred to in paragraph (c) are located.
(4) The site controller or its affiliates are not required to satisfy the criterion set out in sub-paragraph (3)(a) in respect of land where a specified habitat is located in the Lake Zone or the East Gateway Zone, if, and to the extent that, the freehold interest in that land is owned by—
(a) a statutory undertaker,
(b) a local authority or other body that is specified, or is within a class of bodies specified, in an enactment which confers on that body, or bodies within that class, functions that include nature conservation, or
(c) a body, established for nature conservation purposes, that is not permitted to dispose of its assets otherwise than to another body that is established for such purposes that is subject to the same restrictions regarding the disposal of its assets.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1322/schedule/3/paragraph/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-entertainment-resort-complex-bedford-special-development-no-2-order-2025/schedule-3/paragraph-4
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