London Local Authorities and Transport for London Act 2013 (c. 5)

PART 2 Highways: miscellaneous

6 Damage to highways in consequence of adjacent works

The 1980 Act shall apply in Greater London as though for section 133 (damage to footways of streets by excavations) and its heading there were substituted—

“133 Damage to highway by carrying out of works

If a highway maintainable at the public expense is damaged by or in consequence of any works on land adjacent to the highway, the highway authority for the highway may make good the damage and recover the expenses reasonably incurred by them in doing so from—

(a) the owner of the land in question; or

(b) the person carrying out the works; or

(c) the person on whose behalf the works were carried out.”.