The A1 Birtley to Coal House Development Consent Order 2021

Co-operation

50.—(1) Where in consequence of the proposed construction of any of the authorised development, the undertaker or Northumbrian Water requires the removal of apparatus under paragraph 45(2) or Northumbrian Water makes requirements for the protection or alteration of apparatus under paragraph 47(2), the undertaker must use all reasonable endeavours to co-ordinate the execution of the works in the interests of safety and the efficient and economic execution of the authorised development and taking into account the need to ensure the safe and efficient operation of Northumbrian Water’s undertaking and Northumbrian Water must use all reasonable endeavours to co-operate with the undertaker for that purpose.

(2) Where the undertaker identifies any apparatus, which may belong to or be maintainable by Northumbrian Water but which does not appear on any statutory map kept for the purpose by Northumbrian Water, it shall inform Northumbrian Water of the existence and location of the apparatus as soon as reasonably practicable.

(3) Nothing in this Part of this Schedule affects the provisions of any enactment or agreement regulating the relations between the undertaker and Northumbrian Water in respect of any apparatus laid or erected in land belonging to the undertaker on the date on which this Order is made.