6.—(1) Network Rail may construct and maintain the scheduled works.
(2) Subject to article 7 (power to deviate) 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 sections.
(3) Subject to paragraph (5), Network Rail may carry out and maintain such of the following works as may be necessary or expedient for the purposes of, or for purposes ancillary to, the construction of the scheduled works, namely—
(a)electrical equipment and signalling works;
(b)ramps, means of access and footpaths, bridleways and cycle tracks;
(c)embankments, aprons, abutments, retaining walls, wing walls and culverts;
(d)works to install or alter the position of apparatus, including mains, sewers, drains and cables;
(e)demolition of—
(i)Monkhams, Hurn Road, Werrington, PE6 7HU;
(ii)1549 Lincoln Road, Werrington, PE6 7HH; and
(iii)1551 Lincoln Road, Werrington, PE6 7HH;
(f)partial demolition of the boundary wall running parallel with Brook Drain to the rear of properties at Coningsby Road; and
(g)a retention pond to the southwest of the East Coast Mainline railway corridor.
(4) Subject to paragraph (5), Network Rail may carry out such other works (of whatever nature) as may be necessary or expedient for the purposes of, or for purposes ancillary to, the construction of the authorised works.
(5) Paragraphs (3) and (4) only authorise the carrying out or maintenance of works outside the limits of deviation if such works are carried out on—
(a)land specified in columns (1) and (2) of Schedule 2 (acquisition of land for ancillary works) for the purpose specified in column (3) of that Schedule;
(b)land specified in column (1) of Schedule 8 (land in which only new rights etc. may be acquired) for the purposes specified in column (2) of that Schedule; or
(c)land specified in columns (1) and (2) of Schedule 10 (land of which temporary possession may be taken) for the purposes specified in column (3) of that Schedule and in relation to the authorised works specified in column (4) of that Schedule.
(6) Network Rail may, within the Order limits—
(a)carry out and maintain landscaping and other works to mitigate any adverse effects of the construction, maintenance and operation of the authorised works (other than works authorised by this paragraph); and
(b)carry out and maintain works for the benefit or protection of land affected by the authorised works (other than works authorised by this paragraph).
7. In constructing or maintaining any of the scheduled works, Network Rail may—
(a)deviate laterally from the lines or situations shown on the deposited plans to the extent of the limits of deviation for that work; and
(b)deviate vertically from the levels shown on the sections—
(i)to any extent upwards not exceeding 3 metres; or
(ii)to any extent downwards as may be found to be necessary or convenient.
8.—(1) Network Rail may for the purposes of the authorised works alter the layout of, or carry out any works in, the street specified in columns (1) and (2) of Schedule 3 (streets subject to alteration of layout) in the manner specified in relation to that street in column (3).
(2) Without limitation on the scope of the specific powers conferred by paragraph (1) but subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), Network Rail may, for the purposes of constructing and maintaining any scheduled work, alter the layout of any street within the Order limits and the layout of any street having a junction with such a street; and, without limitation on the scope of that power, Network Rail may—
(a)increase the width of the carriageway of the street by reducing the width of any kerb, footpath, footway, cycle track or verge within the street;
(b)alter the level or increase the width of any such kerb, footpath, footway, cycle track or verge;
(c)reduce the width of the carriageway of the street; and
(d)temporarily remove any road hump within the street.
(3) Network Rail must restore to the reasonable satisfaction of the street authority any street which has been temporarily altered under this article.
(4) The powers conferred by paragraph (2) are not to be exercised without the consent of the street authority, but such consent must not be unreasonably withheld.
(5) If within 28 days of receiving an application for consent under paragraph (4) a street authority fails to notify Network Rail of its decision or refuses consent without giving any grounds for its refusal that street authority is deemed to have granted consent.
9.—(1) Network Rail may, for the purposes of the authorised works, enter on any of the streets specified in Schedule 4 (streets subject to street works) as are within the Order limits and may—
(a)break up or open the street, or any sewer, drain or tunnel under it;
(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).
(2) In this article “apparatus” has the same meaning as in Part 3 of the 1991 Act.
10.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this article, Network Rail may, in connection with the construction, maintenance and operation of the authorised works, stop up each of the streets specified in columns (1) and (2) of Parts 1 and 2 of Schedule 5 (streets to be stopped up) to the extent specified in column (3) of those Parts of that Schedule.
(2) No street specified in columns (1) and (2) of Part 1 of Schedule 5 is to be wholly or partly stopped up under this article unless—
(a)the new street to be constructed and substituted for it, which is specified in column (4) of that Part of that Schedule, has been constructed and completed to the reasonable satisfaction of the street authority and is open for use; or
(b)a temporary alternative route for the passage of such traffic as could have used the street to be stopped up is first provided and subsequently maintained by Network Rail, to the reasonable satisfaction of the street authority, between the commencement and termination points for the stopping up of the street until the completion and opening of the new street in accordance with sub-paragraph (a).
(3) No street specified in columns (1) and (2) of Part 2 of Schedule 5 (being a street to be stopped up for which no substitute is to be provided) is to be wholly or partly stopped up under this article unless the condition specified in paragraph (4) is satisfied in relation to all the land which abuts on either side of the street to be stopped up.
(4) The condition referred to in paragraph (3) is that—
(a)Network Rail is in possession of the land; or
(b)there is no right of access to the land from the street concerned; or
(c)there is reasonably convenient access to the land otherwise than from the street concerned; or
(d)the owners and occupiers of the land have agreed to the stopping up.
(5) Where a street has been stopped up under this article—
(a)all rights of way over or along the street so stopped up are extinguished; and
(b)Network Rail may appropriate and use for the purposes of its railway undertaking so much of the site of the street as is bounded on both sides by land owned by Network Rail.
(6) Any person who suffers loss by the suspension or extinguishment of any private right of way under this article is entitled to compensation to be determined, in case of dispute, under Part 1 of the 1961 Act.
11.—(1) Network Rail, 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 (3), prevent all persons from passing along the street.
(2) Without limitation on the scope of paragraph (1), Network Rail may use any street stopped up under the powers conferred by this article within the Order limits as a temporary working site.
(3) Network Rail must provide reasonable access for pedestrians going to or from premises abutting on a street affected by the temporary stopping up, alteration or diversion of a street under this article if there would otherwise be no such access.
(4) Without limitation on the scope of paragraph (1), Network Rail may temporarily stop up, alter or divert the streets specified in columns (1) and (2) of Schedule 6 (streets to be temporarily stopped up) to the extent specified, by reference to the letters and numbers shown on the deposited plans, in column (3) of that Schedule.
(5) Network Rail must not exercise the powers conferred by this article—
(a)in relation to any street specified as mentioned in paragraph (4) without first consulting the street authority; and
(b)in relation to any other street without the consent of the street authority which may attach reasonable conditions to any consent, but such consent must not be unreasonably withheld.
(6) Any person who suffers loss by the suspension of any private right of way under this article is entitled to compensation to be determined, in case of dispute, under Part 1 of the 1961 Act.
(7) If within 28 days of receiving an application for consent under paragraph (5)(b) a street authority fails to notify Network Rail of its decision or refuses consent without giving any grounds for its refusal that street authority is deemed to have granted consent.
12.—(1) Any street to be constructed under this Order must be completed to the reasonable satisfaction of the highway authority and, unless otherwise agreed between Network Rail and the highway authority, must be maintained by and at the expense of Network Rail for a period of 12 months from its completion and from 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 must, when completed to the reasonable satisfaction of the street authority, unless otherwise agreed with the street authority, be maintained by and at the expense of Network Rail for a period of 12 months from its completion and from the expiry of that period by and at the expense of the street authority.
(3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) do not apply in relation to the structure of any bridge or tunnel carrying a street over or under any railway of Network Rail and except as provided in those paragraphs Network Rail is not liable to maintain the surface of any street under or over which the scheduled works are constructed, or the immediate approaches to any such street.
(4) In any action against Network Rail in respect of loss or damage resulting from any failure by it to maintain a street under this article, it is a defence (without affecting any other defence or the application of the law relating to contributory negligence) to prove that Network Rail had taken such care as in all the circumstances was reasonably required to secure that the part of the street to which the action relates was not dangerous to traffic.
(5) For the purposes of a defence under paragraph (4), the court must in particular have regard to the following matters—
(a)the character of the street and the traffic which was reasonably to be expected to use it;
(b)the standard of maintenance appropriate for a street of that character and used by such traffic;
(c)the state of repair in which a reasonable person would have expected to find the street;
(d)whether Network Rail knew, or could reasonably have been expected to know, that the condition of the part of the street to which the action relates was likely to cause danger to users of the street; and
(e)where Network Rail could not reasonably have been expected to repair that part of the street before the cause of action arose, what warning notices of its condition had been displayed,
but for the purposes of such a defence it is not relevant to prove that Network Rail had arranged for a competent person to carry out or supervise the maintenance of the part of the street to which the action relates unless it is also proved that Network Rail had given the competent person proper instructions with regard to the maintenance of the street and that the competent person had carried out those instructions.
13.—(1) Network Rail 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 7 (access to works); and
(b)with the approval of the highway authority, form and lay out such other means of access or improve existing means of access, at such locations within the Order limits as Network Rail reasonably requires for the purposes of the authorised works.
(2) If a highway authority fails to notify Network Rail of its decision within 28 days of receiving an application for approval under paragraph (1), that highway authority is deemed to have granted approval.
14.—(1) A street authority and Network Rail 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 strengthening, improvement, repair or reconstruction of any street under the powers conferred by this Order;
(c)the maintenance of the structure of any bridge constructed under the powers conferred by this Order;
(d)any stopping up, alteration or diversion of a street under the powers conferred by this Order; or
(e)the execution in the street of any of the works referred to in article 9(1) (power to execute street works).
(2) Such an agreement may, without limitation on the scope of paragraph (1)—
(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.
15.—(1) Any bridge to be constructed under this Order for carrying a highway over or under a railway must be constructed in accordance with the plans and specifications approved by the highway authority (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld).
(2) If within 28 days of receiving an application for approval under paragraph (1) a highway authority fails to notify Network Rail of its decision or refuses approval without giving any grounds for its refusal that highway authority is deemed to have granted approval.
16.—(1) Network Rail may use any watercourse or any public sewer or drain for the drainage of water in connection with the construction, operation or maintenance of the authorised works and for that purpose may lay down, take up and alter pipes and may, on any land within the Order limits, make openings into, and connections with, the watercourse, public sewer or drain.
(2) Any dispute arising from the making of connections to or the use of a public sewer or drain by Network Rail under paragraph (1) is to be determined as if it were a dispute under section 106 (right to communicate with public sewers) of the Water Industry Act 1991(1).
(3) Network Rail must not discharge any water into any watercourse, public sewer or drain except with the consent of the person to whom it belongs; and such consent may be given subject to such terms and conditions as that person may reasonably impose, but must not be unreasonably withheld.
(4) Network Rail must not make any opening into any public sewer or drain except—
(a)in accordance with plans approved by the person to whom the sewer or drain belongs, but such approval must not be unreasonably withheld; and
(b)where that person has been given the opportunity to supervise the making of the opening.
(5) Network Rail must not, in the exercise of the powers conferred by this article, damage or interfere with the bed or banks of any watercourse forming part of a main river.
(6) Network Rail must take such steps as are reasonably practicable to secure that any water discharged into a watercourse or public sewer or drain under the powers conferred by this article is as free as may be practicable from gravel, soil or other solid substance, oil or matter in suspension.
(7) Nothing in this article overrides the requirement for an environmental permit under regulation 12(1)(b) of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016(2).
(8) If a person who receives an application for consent or approval fails to notify Network Rail of a decision within 28 days of receiving an application for consent under paragraph (3) or approval under paragraph (4)(a) that person is deemed to have granted consent or given approval, as the case may be.
(9) In this article—
(a)“public sewer or drain” means a sewer or drain which belongs to a sewerage undertaker, the Environment Agency, an internal drainage board, or a local authority; and
(b)other expressions, excluding watercourse, used both in this article and in the Water Resources Act 1991(3) have the same meaning as in that Act.
17.—(1) Network Rail may for the purposes of this Order—
(a)survey or investigate any land shown within the Order limits;
(b)without limitation on the scope of sub-paragraph (a), make trial holes in such positions on the land as Network Rail thinks fit to investigate the nature of the surface layer and subsoil and remove soil samples;
(c)without limitation on the scope of sub-paragraph (a), carry out ecological or archaeological investigations on such land;
(d)place on, leave on and remove from the land apparatus for use in connection with the survey and investigation of land and making of trial holes; and
(e)enter on the land for the purpose of exercising the powers conferred by sub-paragraphs (a) to (d).
(2) No land may be entered or equipment placed or left on or removed from the land under paragraph (1), unless at least 7 days’ notice has been served on every owner and occupier of the land.
(3) Notice given in accordance with paragraph (2) must include—
(a)a statement of the recipient’s rights under paragraph (15); and
(b)a copy of any warrant issued under paragraph (8).
(4) If Network Rail proposes to do any of the following, the notice must include details of what is proposed—
(a)searching, boring or excavating;
(b)leaving apparatus on the land;
(c)taking samples;
(d)an aerial survey;
(e)carrying out any other activities that may be required to facilitate compliance with the instruments mentioned in paragraph (5).
(5) The instruments referred to in paragraph (4)(e) are—
(a)Directive 2011/92/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment(4); or
(b)Council Directive 92/42/EEC of 21 May 1992 of the on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora(5).
(6) If Network Rail obtains a warrant after giving notice in accordance with paragraph (2) it must give a copy of the warrant to all those to whom it gave that notice.
(7) Any person entering land under this article on behalf of Network Rail—
(a)must, if so required, before or after entering the land produce written evidence of authority to do so including any warrant issued under paragraph (8); and
(b)may not use force unless a justice of the peace has issued a warrant under paragraph (8) authorising the person to do so;
(c)may take onto the land such vehicles and equipment as are necessary to carry out the survey or investigation or to make the trial holes;
(d)may only enter and survey land at a reasonable time; and
(e)must, if the land is unoccupied or the occupier is absent from the land when the person enters it, leave it as secure against trespassers as when the person entered it.
(8) A justice of the peace may issue a warrant authorising a person to use force in the exercise of the power conferred by this article if satisfied—
(a)that another person has prevented or is likely to prevent the exercise of that power, and
(b)that it is reasonable to use force in the exercise of that power.
(9) The force that may be authorised by a warrant is limited to that which is reasonably necessary.
(10) A warrant authorising the person to use force must specify the number of occasions on which Network Rail can rely on the warrant when entering and surveying or investigating land.
(11) The number specified must be the number which the justice of the peace considers appropriate to achieve the purpose for which the entry and survey or investigation are required.
(12) Any evidence in proceedings for a warrant under this article must be given on oath.
(13) No trial holes are to be made under this article—
(a)in a carriageway or footway without the consent of the highway authority; or
(b)in a private street without the consent of the street authority,
but such consent must not be unreasonably withheld.
(14) If either a highway authority or a street authority which receives an application for consent fails to notify Network Rail of its decision within 28 days of receiving the application for consent—
(a)under paragraph (13)(a) in the case of a highway authority; or
(b)under paragraph (13)(b) in the case of a street authority,
that authority is deemed to have granted consent.
(15) Network Rail must compensate the owners and occupiers of the land for any loss or damage arising by reason of the exercise of the powers conferred by this article, such compensation to be determined, in case of dispute, under Part 1 (determination of questions of disputed compensation) of the 1961 Act.
(16) Paragraphs (1) to (15) apply in relation to Crown land, however a person may only exercise the power conferred by paragraph (1) in relation to Crown land if the person has the permission of the appropriate authority.
(17) In this article, “Crown land” and “the appropriate authority” have the meaning given in section 293(6) (preliminary definitions) of the 1990 Act.
1991 c. 56. Section 106 was amended by sections 35(1), 35(8) and 43(2) of, and Schedule 2 to, the Competition and Service (Utilities) Act 1992 (c. 43), sections 36(2) and 99 of the Water Act 2003 (c. 37) and paragraph 16(1) of Schedule 3 to the Flood and Water Management Act 2010 (c. 29).
S.I. 2016/1154, as amended by S.I. 2017/1012, S.I. 2017/1075, S.I. 2018/110, S.I. 2018/428 and S.I. 2018/575.
O.J. No. L 26, 28.1.2012, p. 1.
O.J. No. L 206, 22.7.1992, p. 7.
As amended by paragraph 6 of Schedule 3 to the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c. 5), paragraph 7(1) and (4) of Schedule 7 to the Planning (Wales) Act 2015 (anaw 4) and paragraphs 1 and 33 of Schedule 12 to the Housing and Planning Act 2016 (c. 22).