# The Town and Country Planning (Entertainment Resort Complex, Bedford) Special Development (No. 2) Order 2025, Paragraph 61: Outfalls


(1) This paragraph applies to any new outfall that would discharge water from a part of the Order land where authorised works are located—
(a) directly into Elstow Brook, or
(b) indirectly into Harrowden Brook, if the new outfall would be the last outfall from which such water discharges, on the Order land, into a watercourse from which water flows into that brook.
(2) No outfall to which this paragraph applies may be constructed unless the site controller has submitted to the Secretary of State for approval a document including—
(a) an OS plan showing the location of the outfall and the watercourse into which it discharges in relation to the rest of the Order land;
(b) details of any proposed works involved in its construction—
(i) including technical drawings showing the design and relevant dimensions of the outfall, including cross and longitudinal sections, and
(ii) demonstrating how the design of the outfall achieves the objectives specified in sub-paragraph (3),
and the Secretary of State has endorsed that document.
(3) The objectives are that the design of the outfall—
(a) does not result in the part of the brook into which the outfall discharges becoming an area of predation for fish and other aquatic fauna,
(b) prevents the spread of invasive species and pathogens,
(c) ensures that the height between the outfall and the brook is such as to minimise the risk of erosion and provide for the safe passage of fish and other aquatic fauna, and
(d) includes specific mitigation of the potential adverse impacts on fish and other aquatic fauna of changes—
(i) in water flows, whether in terms of quantity or velocity, or
(ii) that result in excessively high or low water levels.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1322/schedule/3/paragraph/61 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-entertainment-resort-complex-bedford-special-development-no-2-order-2025/schedule-3/paragraph-61
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.