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10.—(1) The promoter may in connection with the authorised works construct the new streets specified in column (2) of Part 3 of Schedule 4 (streets to be stopped up and the provision of substitutes) by reference to the letters and numbers shown on the rights of way plans.
(2) Subject to the provisions of this article, the promoter may, in connection with the construction of the authorised works, stop up each of the streets specified in column (1) of Part 1 and Part 2 of Schedule 4 to the extent specified, by reference to the letters and numbers shown on the rights of way plans, in column (2) of Part 1 and Part 2 of that Schedule.
(3) No street specified in column (1) of Part 1 of Schedule 4 (being a street to be stopped up for which a substitute is to be provided) is to be wholly or partly stopped up under this article unless—
(a)the new street to be substituted for it, which is specified in relation to it in column (3) 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 for the passage of such traffic as previously used the street to be stopped up is first provided and then maintained by the promoter, to the reasonable satisfaction of the street authority, between the commencement and termination points of the street to be stopped up, until the completion and opening of the new street in accordance with sub-paragraph (a).
(4) No street specified in column (1) of Part 2 of Schedule 4 (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 one of the conditions specified in paragraph (5) is satisfied in relation to all the land which abuts on either side of the street to be stopped up.
(5) The conditions referred to in paragraph (4) are that—
(a)the promoter is in possession of the land;
(b)there is no right of access to the land from the street concerned;
(c)there is reasonably convenient access to the land otherwise than from the street concerned; and
(d)the owners and occupiers of the land have agreed to the stopping up.
(6) Where a street has been stopped up under this article—
(a)all rights of way over or along it are extinguished; and
(b)the promoter may appropriate and use for the purposes of its transport systems undertakings so much of the site of the street as is bounded on both sides by land owned or appropriated by the promoter.
(7) Any person who suffers loss by the extinguishment or suspension of any private right of way under this article is entitled to be paid compensation by the promoter to be determined, in case of dispute, under Part 1 of the 1961 Act.
(8) This article is subject to paragraph 2 of Schedule 9 (provisions relating to statutory undertakers, etc.).
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