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

PART 4Exempt flood risk activities: descriptions and conditions

Maintenance of raised river or sea defences8

1

The maintenance of raised river or sea defences.

2

For the purposes of this paragraph, the specific conditions are—

a

the maintenance works use materials of the same kind as those present in the raised defences and do not alter the shape of those defences or the overall height of the protection afforded by those defences,

b

the raised defences are carrying out the functions for which they were originally designed, and

c

the works do not disturb the bed or, up to normal ground level, the banks of the main river.