Schedule 25, Part 1, paragraph 3(4)

In this paragraph— “allowed activity” means— any activity that has been granted planning permission by a local planning authority or the Secretary of State under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 , a certificate under section 191 of that Act or an established use certificate under section 192 of that Act, as originally enacted , which continues to have effect for the purposes of subsection (4) of section 192, or the construction of hay or straw stacks, clamps or manure (or similar) heaps, in accordance with accepted agricultural practice; “conservancy authority” means any person who has a duty or power under any enactment to conserve, maintain or improve the navigation of a tidal water and is not a navigation or harbour authority; “culvert” means a covered channel or pipe which prevents the obstruction of a main river or drainage path by an artificial construction; “harbour authority” has the meaning given in section 313 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 , other than a navigation authority; “remote defence” means any berm, wall or embankment that is constructed for the purposes of preventing or alleviating flooding from, or in connection with, any main river, other than any berm, wall or embankment which is a bank within the meaning of paragraph 2(2); “river control works” means any structure or appliance used for measuring or regulating— and includes any sluices, flood gates, lashers, valves, paddles, penstocks, locks, weirs, dams, pumps, pumping machinery and pipes; the level of water in a main river, the flow of water in, into or out of, a main river, or the drawing of water from, or the delivering of water into, a main river, “sea defence” includes any bank, wall, embankment (and any berm, counterwall or cross-wall connected to any such bank, wall or embankment), barrier, tidal sluice and other defence, whether natural or artificial, against the inundation of land by sea water or tidal water, including natural or artificial high ground which forms part of or makes a contribution to the efficiency of the defences of the regulator's area against flooding, but excludes any sea defence works which are for the time being maintained by a coast protection authority under the provisions of the Coast Protection Act 1949 or by any local authority or any navigation, harbour or conservancy authority.

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Source: legislation.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-07-30