The National Grid (Hinkley Point C Connection Project) Order 2016

Highway works

22.—(1) No work to construct or alter any permanent or temporary means of access to a highway to be used by vehicular traffic must commence until written details of the design and layout of that means of access has been submitted to and approved by the relevant highway authority.

(2) The highway accesses must be constructed in accordance with the details approved under sub-paragraph (1).

(3) The undertaker must—

(a) carry out stage 2, 3 and 4 road safety audits of the highway works authorised by this Order in accordance with Standard HD 19/15 of the Department for Transport’s Design Manual for Roads and Bridges or in accordance with any standard that supersedes that Standard,

(b) remedy to the reasonable satisfaction of the relevant highway authority any defects identified in any such road safety audits, and

(c) must implement recommendations arising from the road safety audit reports,

unless otherwise agreed with the relevant highway authority.