Paragraph 1 Interpretation of Schedule 1

In this Schedule—

• “CEMP” has the meaning given in paragraph 7(1)(a) (construction and environmental management plan);

• “contamination risk” means a risk to human health or the environment, including a risk of groundwater becoming contaminated, arising from—

  1. (a)

     construction work, or

  2. (b)

     the presence, in, on, under or over land, of hazardous substances, including gases, vapour concentrations or radiological contamination, that such work may release or spread;

• “ordnance risk” means a risk to human health or the environment associated with the presence of unexploded ordnance in, on, under or over land;

• “rainfall event” means a rainfall event of any intensity that may reasonably be expected to affect the Order land, up to and including the intensity of a 1 in 100 year rainfall event, increased by 40 per cent to allow for the effects of climate change.