# The Town and Country Planning (Entertainment Resort Complex, Bedford) Special Development (No. 2) Order 2025, Paragraph 54: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design


(1) No construction of a building of a type specified in sub-paragraph (2) that is to be occupied as part of authorised works may begin until the site controller has submitted to the Secretary of State for approval, and the Secretary of State has endorsed, a scheme for ensuring that buildings of each type specified in sub-paragraph (2) achieve specified target levels or standards of environmental and social impact performance, set by reference to a specified and internationally recognised standard for assessing or certifying such performance.
(2) The types of building specified are those that solely comprise one or more—
(a) conference centres;
(b) hotels;
(c) office or administrative facilities;
(d) restaurants;
(e) shops;
(f) server centres;
(g) sports facilities;
(h) warehouse or storage facilities.
(3) The site controller must keep the endorsed scheme under review and submit modifications to it to the Secretary of State for approval, as and when the site controller considers it appropriate to do so in order to reflect improvements in the management of the environmental and social impacts of building design and operation.
(4) In carrying out their functions under this paragraph, the site controller and the Secretary of State must have regard, in particular, to version 5 of the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system, or any subsequent version of that or another comparable rating system that sets more demanding standards.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1322/schedule/3/paragraph/54 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-entertainment-resort-complex-bedford-special-development-no-2-order-2025/schedule-3/paragraph-54
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