The Teversham Award Drains Variation Order 2025

Made: 11th June 2025

Coming into force: 11.30 a.m. on 29th August 2025

Accordingly, the Secretary of State makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred under section 32(5) of the 1991 Act and now vested in the Secretary of State[^f00002].

Citation and commencement

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This Order may be cited as the Teversham Award Drains Variation Order 2025 and comes into force on the date of its confirmation by the Secretary of State in accordance with paragraphs 3(2) and 5(1) of Schedule 3 to the 1991 Act.

Confirmation of the Scheme

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• (1) The Scheme submitted by the Environment Agency and with the modification made by the Secretary of State is confirmed.

• (2) The Scheme, as modified by the Secretary of State, is set out in the Schedule to this Order.

SCHEDULE — Scheme

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The Scheme shall come into force on the day after the day on which the Order confirming this Scheme is confirmed.

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In this Scheme—

• “the Award” means the Parish of Teversham Enclosure Award dated 20 December 1815, made pursuant to An Act for Inclosing in the Parish of Teversham in the county of Cambridge passed in 1810[^f00003];

• “the Award Drain” means the length of the Award Drain shown by the green line on the Scheme Plan;

• “the Commencement Date” means the date on which the Scheme comes into force;

• “the Revised Drain” means the length of the drain shown by the red line on the Scheme Plan;

• “the Scheme Plan” means the plan marked “Teversham Enclosure Award Variation Order – Drain Six” sealed by the Environment Agency in relation to this Scheme.

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On the Commencement Date, the obligation to cleanse, scour, repair, and maintain the Award Drain as specified in the Award shall be varied so as to substitute the length of the Award Drain with the length of the Revised Drain.

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South Cambridgeshire District Council and Cambridge City Council shall be jointly responsible from the Commencement Date for the repair and maintenance of the Revised Drain in place of the Award Drain[^f00004].

11.30 a.m. on 29th August 2025

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

William Harrington — Head of Rural Flood Risk — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — 11th June 2025

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order confirms a Scheme submitted by the Environment Agency making provision to divert a length of a drain situated in the Parish of Cherry Hinton as a result of development being carried out in the area. A map showing the Award Drain and indicating the length of the drain which is the subject of this Scheme is available at the Environment Agency’s office for inspection at Bromholme Lane, Brampton, Huntington, PE28 4NE, and can be inspected between 9a.m. and 4p.m. A copy is also available online at: www.gov.uk.

The Secretary of State has modified the Scheme submitted by the Environment Agency to update the names of the relevant councils to which the Order applies, as set out at paragraph 4 of the Schedule.

An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1991 c. 59. The definitions of “the appropriate Minister” and “the Minister” are respectively contained in sections 32(8) and 72(1) of that Act.

[^f00002]: The functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food were transferred to the Secretary of State under article 2(2) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794).

[^f00003]: 50 Geo. 3 c. 68 Pr. (unpublished).

[^f00004]: Page 16 of the Award, amended under section 11 to the Highway Act 1862 (25 & 26 Vict. c. 61), section 25 of the Local Government Act 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73), section 30 of the Local Government Act 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5 c. 17) and sections 1 and 179 of the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70) respectively, affirmed in Attorney-General and another vs St Ives Rural District Council and another [1961] 1 Q.B. 366.