http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2284/article/13The Network Rail (Ipswich Chord) Order 2012Planning (town and country)Compulsory purchaseLegislationRailway companiesDistrict planningenINFRASTRUCTURE PLANNINGStatute Law Database2026-07-07Expert Participation2017-12-28 This Order authorises Network Rail Infrastructure Limited (referred to in this Order as Network Rail) to construct, maintain and operate a new section of railway, 1415 metres long, to the north of Ipswich Goods Yard, linking the Great Eastern Main Line and East Suffolk Line Railways. PART 4131Network Rail may use any watercourse or any public sewer or drain for the drainage of water in connection with the carrying out or maintenance of the authorised project and for that purpose may lay down, take up and alter pipes and may, on any land within the Order limits, make openings into, and connections with, the watercourse, public sewer or drain.2Any dispute arising from the making of connections to or the use of a public sewer or drain by Network Rail under paragraph (1) is to be determined as if it were a dispute under section 106 of the Water Industry Act 1991 (right to communicate with public sewers).3Network Rail must not discharge any water into any watercourse, public sewer or drain except with the consent of the person to whom it belongs; and such consent may be given subject to such terms and conditions as that person may reasonably impose, but must not be unreasonably withheld.4Network Rail must not make any opening into any public sewer or drain except—ain accordance with plans approved by the person to whom the sewer or drain belongs, but such approval must not be unreasonably withheld; andbwhere that person has been given the opportunity to supervise the making of the opening.5Network Rail must not, in carrying out or maintaining works further to this article, damage or interfere with the bed or banks of any watercourse forming part of a main river.6Network Rail must take such steps as are reasonably practicable to secure that any water discharged into a watercourse or public sewer or drain pursuant to this article is as free as may be practicable from gravel, soil or other solid substance, oil or matter in suspension.7Nothing in this article overrides the requirement for an environmental permit under regulation 12(1)(b) of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016.8If a person who receives an application for consent or approval fails to notify Network Rail of a decision within 28 days of receiving an application for consent under paragraph (3) or approval under paragraph (4)(a) that person is deemed to have granted consent or given approval, as the case may be.9In this article—a“public sewer or drain” means a sewer or drain which belongs to a sewerage undertaker, the Environment Agency, an internal drainage board, or a local authority; andbother expressions, excluding watercourse, used both in this article and in the Water Resources Act 1991 have the same meaning as in that Act. 1991 c. 56. 1991 c. 57. Art. 13 in force at 26.9.2012, see art. 1Words in art. 13(7) substituted (1.1.2017) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1154), reg. 1(1), Sch. 29 para. 42 (with regs. 1(3), 77-79, Sch. 4)