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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-49",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-entertainment-resort-complex-bedford-special-development-no-2-order-2025/schedule-3/paragraph-49.json",
  "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/49",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "49",
  "heading": "Limits on extent of highway works",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of this paragraph—\n“area of development” has the meaning given in section 22(9) of the Planning Act 2008;\n“motorway” has the meaning given in section 22(9) of the Planning Act 2008;\n“relevant highway” means a highway for which the Secretary of State or a strategic highways company is the highway authority.\n(2) Class 6 authorised works must not consist of—\n(a) the construction or alteration of a motorway;\n(b) the construction of—\n(i) a highway that will be a relevant highway, but that is not a motorway, where the speed limit for any class of vehicle is expected to be 50 miles per hour or greater, if the area of development exceeds 12.5 hectares;\n(ii) any other highway that will be a relevant highway, if the area of development exceeds 7.5 hectares;\n(c) the alteration of—\n(i) a relevant highway, that is not a motorway, where the speed limit for any class of vehicle is expected to be 50 miles per hour or greater, if the area of development exceeds 12.5 hectares;\n(ii) any other relevant highway, if the area of development exceeds 7.5 hectares;\n(d) the improvement of a relevant highway, if it is likely to have a significant effect on the environment.\n(3) Sub-paragraph (2) does not apply to class 6 authorised works which meet the conditions set out in section 22(6), (7) or (8) of the Planning Act 2008.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2008 c. 29, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1322/schedule/3/paragraph/49",
    "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."
}