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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-57",
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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/57",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "57",
  "heading": "Flood risk",
  "text": "(1) No alteration to ground levels or other construction work, other than preliminary work, may take place until—\n(a) a scheme to ensure authorised works are flood resilient in accordance with sub-paragraph (2) has been prepared or verified by a suitably qualified and experienced professional in respect of the land where those authorised works are to be located, and\n(b) the site controller has submitted the scheme to the Secretary of State for approval and the Secretary of State has endorsed it.\n(2) The scheme must—\n(a) be based on detailed modelling of fluvial and surface water flooding, and include details of that modelling;\n(b) include an OS plan that, using contrasting shading—\n(i) identifies each part of the Order land that is likely to be affected by fluvial flooding if the design flood event applicable to fluvial flooding occurs;\n(ii) indicates the annual probability of each part of the Order land being subject to fluvial flooding using the classification in Table 10;\n(c) set out suitable measures to manage flood risk that are substantially in accordance with the flood risk mitigation measures contained in reference document 14 (flood risk assessment).\nTable 10\nClassification of flood zones\nProbability\nDescription of land within zone\nLow\nLand with a less than 0.1 per cent annual probability of fluvial flooding\nMedium\nLand with between 0.1 per cent and 1 per cent annual probability of fluvial flooding\nHigh\nLand with a 1 per cent or greater annual probability of fluvial flooding\nVery high\nLand classified as functional floodplain",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1322/schedule/3/paragraph/57",
    "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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