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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-northwood-headquarters-special-development-order-2025/schedule-1/paragraph-11",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/37",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Northwood Headquarters) Special Development Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-northwood-headquarters-special-development-order-2025",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/11",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Contamination risks or ordnance risks identified unexpectedly",
  "text": "(1) In this paragraph, “relevant risk” means a contamination risk or an ordnance risk that has not been anticipated as a result of work undertaken to assess and prevent such risks.\n(2) If a relevant risk is identified during the carrying out of relevant development—\n(a) any activity that may exacerbate the relevant risk, in particular by causing contamination or pollution to spread, or unexploded ordnance to explode, must be suspended,\n(b) a person appointed to assess and prevent contamination risks or, as the case may be, ordnance risks, in accordance with arrangements made under the CEMP (see paragraph 7(2)(l)(i) (construction and environmental management plan)), must—\n(i) carry out an investigation and risk assessment in respect of the relevant risk, and\n(ii) prepare a report for the Defence Secretary setting out the results of the assessment and any steps recommended to be taken to prevent the relevant risk, and\n(c) the activity suspended under paragraph (a) must not be resumed until the Defence Secretary has—\n(i) determined what steps, if any, recommended under paragraph (b)(ii) to take, and\n(ii) taken those steps, or other, similarly effective steps, and given the Secretary of State written notice to that effect, including an outline of the nature of the steps taken, or\n(iii) determined that there is no need to take steps in relation to the relevant risk, and has given the Secretary of State written notice to that effect, setting out the Defence Secretary’s determination.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/37/schedule/1/paragraph/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:21:44.253762+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}