The Docklands Light Railway (Silvertown and London City Airport Extension) Order 2002

Principal Powers

Power to construct works

4.—(1) DLRL may construct and maintain the scheduled works.

(2) Subject to article 5 below, the scheduled works may only be constructed in the lines or situations shown on the deposited plans and in accordance with the levels shown on the deposited sections.

(3) Subject to paragraph (6) below, DLRL may carry out and maintain such of the following works as may be necessary or expedient for the purposes of, in connection with or in consequence of, the construction of the scheduled works, namely—

(a) works required for the strengthening, improvement, repair or reconstruction of any street;

(b) works for the strengthening, alteration or demolition of any building or structure;

(c) works to alter the position of any street furniture or apparatus, including mains, sewers, drains and cables and lights;

(d) works to alter the course of, or otherwise interfere with, non-navigable rivers, streams or watercourses;

(e) landscaping and other works to mitigate any adverse effects of the construction, maintenance or operation of the authorised works; and

(f) facilities and works for the benefit or protection of land or premises affected by the authorised works.

(4) Subject to paragraph (6) below, DLRL may carry out and maintain such other works (of whatever nature) as may be necessary or expedient for the purposes of, in connection with or in consequence of, the construction of the scheduled works.

(5) DLRL may remove any works constructed by it pursuant to this Order which have been constructed as temporary works or which it no longer requires.

(6) Paragraphs (3) and (4) above shall only authorise the carrying out or maintenance of works—

(a) within the limits of deviation shown on the deposited plans for the scheduled works; and

(b) on land specified in columns (1) and (2) of Schedule 2 to this Order for the purpose specified in relation to that land in column (3) of that Schedule (being land shown on the deposited plans as lying within the limits of additional land to be acquired or used).

(7) In constructing and maintaining the scheduled works DLRL may lay and install such number of railway lines, switches and crossings as may be necessary or convenient.

Power to deviate

5.—(1) In constructing or maintaining any of the scheduled works, DLRL may—

(a) deviate laterally from the lines or situations shown on the deposited plans within the limits of deviation relating to that work shown on those plans; and

(b) subject to paragraph (3) below, deviate vertically from the levels shown on the deposited sections—

(i) to any extent not exceeding 3 metres upwards; and

(ii) to any extent downwards.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1) above, in constructing or maintaining those sections of Works Nos. 1 and 3 to be carried on viaduct DLRL may deviate from the design of those viaducts shown on the deposited sections as it thinks fit, including by varying their points of commencement and termination, the number of supporting columns or other structures, the distances between them, the height of the underside of the viaducts above the level of the ground or the distance between the underside of the viaduct and the level of the rails.

(3) DLRL shall construct and maintain Work No.1 so that between the points measured 700 metres and 2,600 metres from the commencement of that work there is afforded at any vehicular access intersection point a clearance of at least 5.3 metres between the existing level of the access shown on the deposited sections or, if that level is altered by DLRL under its powers under this Order, the altered level, and the underside of the permanent viaduct structure forming part of that work.

(4) In paragraph (3) above, “vehicular access intersection point” means any point along the route of the section of Work No. 1 referred to in that paragraph where an access road or way that is shown on the deposited sections or which is provided in substitution therefore under this Order, passes underneath that work.

Stations

6.  DLRL may construct the stations specified in Schedule 3 to this Order on the lands specified in that Schedule and maintain and operate the stations so constructed, and it may construct, maintain and operate all necessary works and conveniences connected with those stations.