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This Order may be cited as the Northampton Gateway Rail Freight Interchange (Amendment) Order 2023 and comes into force on 7th April 2023.
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(1) The Northampton Gateway Rail Freight Interchange Order 2019 is amended as follows.
(2) In article 2(1) (interpretation), in the appropriate alphabetical place, insert—“
 “rail infrastructure plan” means the plan of that description referred to in Schedule 16 and certified as the rail infrastructure plan by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order;”.
(3) In Schedule 2 (requirements), in paragraph 3 (components of development and phasing) for sub-paragraph (3) substitute—“
(3) There is to be no occupation of any of the warehousing until the undertaker has completed the rail infrastructure within the area coloured pink on the rail infrastructure plan. On completion of the rail infrastructure, no more than 232,260 square metres of the warehousing is to be occupied (including any warehouse erected pursuant to the planning permission reference WNS/2021/1860/MAF, as amended) until both of the connections to the West Coast Main Line railway have been constructed and commissioned sufficient for the rail terminal to be operational.”.
(4) In Schedule 16 (certification of plans and documents), at the end of the table insert—“
The rail infrastructure plan - NGW-BWB-GEN-XX-SK-C-SK315-S2-P01”
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Natasha Kopala
Head of the Transport and Works Act Orders Unit
Department for Transport
6th April 2023