The A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme Development Consent Order 2016

21.—(1) Before beginning to construct any specified work, the undertaker must submit to the Agency plans of the specified work and such further particulars available to it as the Agency may within 28 days of the receipt of the plans reasonably require.

(2) Plans of a specified work submitted under sub-paragraph (1) relating to that part of Work No. 5 comprising the crossing of the river Great Ouse may not show a reduction of the width of the navigable channel to less than 12 metres or a reduction of the navigable headroom (measured from the normal water retention level of 10.05 metres AOD) to less than 3 metres unless the Agency has given its prior written approval in principle to such a reduction following a request made by the undertaker, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed.

(3) Any such specified work must not be constructed except in accordance with such plans as may be approved in writing by the Agency, or determined under paragraph 30.

(4) Any approval of the Agency required under this paragraph—

(a) must not be unreasonably withheld or delayed;

(b) is deemed to have been given if it is neither given nor refused within 8 weeks of the submission of the plans or receipt of further particulars if such particulars have been required by the Agency for approval and, in the case of a refusal, accompanied by a statement of the grounds of refusal; and

(c) may be given subject to such reasonable requirements as the Agency may make for the protection of any drainage work, fishery or water resources, for the prevention of flooding or pollution or in the discharge of its environmental duties including those under the Environment Act 1995(1), the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006(2) and the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive)(England and Wales) Regulations 2003(3).

(5) Any requirement made by the Agency under sub-paragraph (4)(c) may include—

(a) a requirement for the undertaker to carry out monitoring during the implementation of any de-watering scheme approved by the Agency under this paragraph and to supply data arising from that monitoring to the Agency; and

(b) a requirement for the undertaker not to prevent or materially restrict the Agency’s use of any access route during construction of the specified work or, where that is not possible owing to the nature of the work, a requirement for the undertaker to provide for use by the Agency during construction of the specified work a reasonably suitable alternative to the access route.

(6) The Agency must use its reasonable endeavours to respond to the submission of any plans before the expiration of the period mentioned in sub-paragraph (4)(b).

(1)

1995 c. 25.

(2)

2006 c. 16.

(3)

S.I. 2003/3242.