High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Act 2017

Support of buildings

6 (1) This paragraph has effect for the purposes of paragraphs 2 to 5.

(2) “Building” includes any structure.

(3) “Relevant distance”, in relation to any work, means—

(a) 100 metres in any of the following cases—

(i) where the work is comprised in so much of Works Nos. 1/1 or 1/15 as lies between their commencement and the point where they pass beneath Parkway in the London Borough of Camden;

(ii) where the work is comprised in so much of Works Nos. 1/1 or 1/15 as lies between the points where they pass beneath Victoria Road and Chase Road in the London Borough of Camden;

(iii) where the work is comprised in Work No. 1/16;

(iv) where the work relates to the making of a shaft;

(b) 50 metres in any other case.

(4) A building (or, in the case of paragraph 5, apparatus or pipe-line) is within the “relevant distance” of a work if all or part of it is within that distance.

(5) In the case of a work under the surface of the ground, a reference to a building (or, in the case of paragraph 5, apparatus or pipe-line) within the relevant distance of that work includes a reference to a building (or apparatus or pipe-line) all or part of which is within the relevant distance of any point on the surface below which the work is situated.