The London Underground (East London Line Extension) Order 1997

Streets

Power to execute street works

6.—(1) The Company may, for the purposes of the authorised works, enter upon so much of any of the streets specified in Schedule 3 to this Order as is within the limits and may–

(a) break up or open the street, or any sewer, drain or tunnel under it, or tunnel or bore under the street,

(b) place apparatus in the street,

(c) maintain apparatus in the street or change its position, and

(d) execute any works required for or incidental to any works referred to in sub-paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) above.

(2) This article is subject to paragraph 3 of Schedule 9 to this Order.

(3) In this article “apparatus” has the same meaning as in Part III of the 1991 Act.

Permanent stopping up of streets

7.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this article, the Company may, in connection with the construction of the authorised works, permanently stop up each of the streets specified in columns (1) and (2) of Parts I and II of Schedule 4 to this Order to the extent specified, by reference to the letters and numbers shown on the deposited plans, in column (3) of Parts I and II of that Schedule.

(2) No street specified in columns (1) and (2) of Part I of Schedule 4 to this Order (being a street to be stopped up for which a substitute is to be provided) shall be wholly or partly stopped up under this article unless either–

(a) the new street to be substituted for it and which is specified in relation to it by reference to the letters and numbers shown on the deposited plans in column (4) of that Part of that Schedule has been completed to the reasonable satisfaction of the street authority and is open for use; or

(b) a temporary alternative route is available between the commencement and termination points of the street to be stopped up pending completion of the new street in accordance with sub-paragraph (a) above.

(3) Where a street has been permanently stopped up under this article all rights of way over or along the street so stopped up shall be extinguished, and the Company may, without making any payment therefor but subject to sections 77 to 85E of, and Schedules 1 to 3 to, the 1845 Act (which relate to minerals under railways), appropriate and use for the purposes of their undertaking the street so stopped up.

(4) Any person who suffers loss by the extinguishment or suspension of any private right of way under this article shall be entitled to compensation to be determined, in case of dispute, under Part I of the 1961 Act.

(5) This article is subject to paragraph 2 of Schedule 9 to this Order.

Temporary stopping up of streets

8.—(1) The Company, during and for the purposes of the execution of the authorised works, may temporarily stop up, alter or divert any street and may for any reasonable time–

(a) divert the traffic from the street, and

(b) subject to paragraph (2) below, prevent all persons from passing along the street.

(2) The Company shall provide reasonable access for pedestrians going to or from premises abutting on a street affected by the exercise of the powers conferred by this article if there would otherwise be no such access.

(3) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1) above, the Company may exercise the powers of this article in relation to the streets specified in columns (1) and (2) of Schedule 5 to this Order to the extent specified in column (3) to that Schedule.

(4) Without prejudice to paragraph (3) above, the Company may, for a period not exceeding 4 years from the date upon which the Company commence to exercise the powers conferred by this article in relation to Dunston Road narrow and stop up so much of Dunston Road shown on the deposited plans and numbered 111 in the London borough of Hackney as lies within the limits of deviation.

(5) The Company shall not exercise the powers of this article–

(a) in relation to any street specified as mentioned in paragraph (3) above without first consulting the street authority, and

(b) in relation to any other street without the consent of the street authority, but such consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

(6) The provisions of the 1991 Act mentioned in paragraph (7) below and any regulations made, or code of practice issued or approved under, those provisions shall apply (with the necessary modifications) in relation to the stopping up, alteration or diversion of a street by the Company under the powers conferred by this article where no street works are executed in that street as they would apply if the stopping up, alteration or diversion were occasioned by street works executed in that street by the Company.

(7) The provisions of the 1991 Act referred to in paragraph (6) above are–

• section 54 (advance notice of certain works);

• section 55 (notice of starting date of works);

• section 59 (general duty of street authority to co-ordinate works);

• section 60 (general duty of undertakers to co-operate);

• section 69 (works likely to affect other apparatus in the street);

• section 76 (liability for cost of temporary traffic regulation);

• section 77 (liability for cost of use of alternative route); and

all such other provisions as apply for the purposes of the provisions mentioned above.

Access to works

9.  The Company may, for the purposes of the authorised works–

(a) form and lay out means of access or improve existing means of access in the locations specified in columns (1) and (2) of Schedule 6 to this Order, and

(b) with the approval of the highway authority (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld) form and lay out such other means of access or improve existing means of access at such locations within the limits as the Company reasonably requires for the purposes of the authorised works.

Construction and maintenance of new or altered streets

10.—(1) Any street to be constructed under this Order shall be completed to the reasonable satisfaction of the highway authority and shall, unless otherwise agreed, be maintained by and at the expense of the Company for a period of 24 months from its completion and at the expiry of that period by and at the expense of the highway authority.

(2) Where a street is altered or diverted under this Order, the altered or diverted part of the street shall when completed to the reasonable satisfaction of the street authority, unless otherwise agreed, be maintained by and at the expense of the Company for a period of 24 months from its completion and at the expiry of that period by and at the expense of the street authority.

(3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) above do not apply in relation to the structure of any bridge or tunnel carrying a street over or under any railway of the Company.

(4) Nothing in this article shall prejudice the operation of section 87 of the 1991 Act (prospectively maintainable highways); and the Company shall not by reason of any duty under this article to maintain a street be taken to be the street authority in relation to that street for the purposes of Part III of that Act.

(5) Nothing in this article shall have effect in relation to street works as respects which the provisions of Part III of the 1991 Act apply.

Construction of bridges

11.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Order or any enactment or rule of law the Company may, in constructing and maintaining Work No 1, reconstruct, renew or alter any of the bridges carrying the railway over the streets specified in Part II of Schedule 1 to this Order so that such bridges have no greater height above those streets than they had on the date of application for this Order under section 6 of the Act.

Agreements with street authorities

12.—(1) A street authority and the Company may enter into agreements with respect to –

(a) the construction of any new street (including any structure carrying the street over or under a railway) under the powers conferred by this Order,

(b) the maintenance of the structure of any bridge or tunnel carrying a street over or under a railway,

(c) any stopping up, alteration or diversion of a street under the powers conferred by this Order, or

(d) the execution in the street of any of the works referred to in article 6(1) above.

(2) Such an agreement may, without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1) above–

(a) make provision for the street authority to carry out any function under this Order which relates to the street in question, and

(b) contain such terms as to payment and otherwise as the parties consider appropriate.