# The Town and Country Planning (Entertainment Resort Complex, Bedford) Special Development (No. 2) Order 2025, Paragraph 6: Specified habitats: general


(1) Grand Opening must not take place unless habitats have been created, enhanced, or retained on the Order land in accordance with this paragraph (each such habitat being a “specified habitat”).
(2) Each specified habitat must be of a type described in the first column of Table 1.
(3) The extent of the specified habitats of each such type must be, in aggregate, no less than is set out in the second column of Table 1 in the row relating to that type of habitat.
(4) Each specified habitat must be created, enhanced or retained in accordance with—
(a) any endorsed habitat location plan that relates to it, and
(b) any endorsed habitat creation and enhancement plan that relates to it.
Table 1: type and extent of habitats to be created, enhanced or retained
Habitat type
Habitat extent
Standing water (ponds and lakes)
20.5 hectares
Woodlands
16.1 hectares
Reedbeds
3.6 hectares
Meadow grassland
3.4 hectares
Scrub (dense and scattered)
3.2 hectares
Open mosaic
2.5 hectares
Watercourse
4.2 kilometres
Hedgerow
2.4 kilometres

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1322/schedule/3/paragraph/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-entertainment-resort-complex-bedford-special-development-no-2-order-2025/schedule-3/paragraph-6
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.