The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 No. 1154

SCHEDULE 3 E+W Exempt facilities and waste operations to which section 33(1)(a) of the 1990 Act does not apply: descriptions and conditions

PART 4 E+W Exempt flood risk activities: descriptions and conditions

Service crossings attached to the outside of existing structures over a main river E+W

4.—(1) Service crossings attached to the outside of existing structures over a main river.

(2) For the purposes of this paragraph, the specific conditions are—

(a) the service crossing does not project more than 1 metre horizontally from the structure,

(b) the service crossing follows the existing cross-sectional profile of the structure to the main river in both normal and flood flow,

(c) the service crossing does not pass through any bank, culvert, flood defence structure or river control works on the main river or through any sea defence,

(d) permanent hazard markers are erected on both banks of the main river, and

(e) a notification has not been sent by the regulator to the landowner that the structure has been identified for removal or modification in order to achieve the [F1 environmental objectives in relation to a river basin district].

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 3 Pt. 4 para. 4(2)(e) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/39), regs. 1, 2(9)(d); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)