9.—(1) The undertaker may, for the purposes of the authorised project, enter on so much of any of the streets specified in Schedule B (streets subject to street works) as is within the Order limits and may—
(a)break up or open the street, or any sewer, drain or tunnel under it;
(b)tunnel or bore under the street;
(c)place apparatus in the street;
(d)maintain apparatus in the street or change its position; and
(e)execute any works required for or incidental to any works referred to in sub-paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d).
(2) The authority given by paragraph (1) is a statutory right for the purposes of sections 48(3) (streets, street works and undertakers) and 51(1) (prohibition of unauthorised street works) of the 1991 Act.
(3) The provisions of sections 54 to 106 of the 1991 Act apply to any street works carried out under paragraph (1).
(4) In this article “apparatus” has the same meaning as in Part 3 of the 1991 Act.
[NOTE: This article should not be used for the purposes of authorising street works that affect a trunk road (as defined in the 1980 Act); no trunk roads should be specified in Schedule B (streets subject to street works). For any street works affecting a trunk road the undertaker should make an application for a licence under section 50 of the 1991 Act.]
10.—(1) Any street (other than [insert relevant private streets]) to be constructed under this Order shall be completed to the reasonable satisfaction of the highway authority and, unless otherwise agreed with the highway authority, shall be maintained by and at the expense of the undertaker for a period of [12 months] from its completion and at 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 shall, 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 the undertaker for a period of [12 months] from its completion and at 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 the undertaker.
(4) In any action against the undertaker in respect of loss or damage resulting from any failure by it to maintain a street under this article, it shall be a defence (without prejudice to any other defence or the application of the law relating to contributory negligence) to prove that the undertaker 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 shall 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 the undertaker 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;
(e)where the undertaker 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 the undertaker 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 the undertaker 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.
(6) Nothing in this article shall—
(a)prejudice the operation of section 87 of the 1991 Act (prospectively maintainable highways); and the undertaker shall not by reason of any duty under that article to maintain a street be taken to be a street authority in relating to that street for the purposes of Part 3 of that Act; or
(b)have effect in relation to the street works with regard to which the provisions of Part 3 of the 1991 Act apply.
11.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this article, the undertaker may, in connection with the carrying out of the authorised project, stop up each of the streets specified in columns (1) and (2) of Parts 1 and 2 of Schedule C (streets to be stopped up) to the extent specified, by reference to the letters and numbers shown on the works plan, in column (3) of those Parts of that Schedule.
(2) No street specified in columns (1) and (2) of Part 1 of Schedule C (being a street to be stopped up for which a substitute is to be provided) shall be wholly or partly stopped up under this article unless—
(a)the new street to be substituted for it, which is specified in column (4) 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 could have used the street to be stopped up is first provided and subsequently maintained by the undertaker, 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 C (being a street to be stopped up for which no substitute is to be provided) shall 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)the undertaker 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 shall be extinguished; and
(b)the undertaker may appropriate and use for the purposes of the authorised project so much of the site of the street as is bounded on both sides by land owned by the undertaker.
(6) Any person who suffers loss by the suspension or extinguishment of any private right of way under this article shall be entitled to compensation to be determined, in case of dispute, under Part 1 of the 1961 Act.
(7) This article is subject to article 39 (apparatus etc. of statutory undertakers).
12. Works carried out under this Order in relation to a highway which consists of or includes a carriageway shall be treated for the purposes of Part 3 of the 1991 Act (street works) as major transport works if—
(a)they are of a description mentioned in any of paragraphs (a), (c) to (e), (g) and (h) of section 86(3) of that Act (which defines what highway authority works are major highway works); or
(b)they are works which, had they been carried out by the highway authority, might have been carried out in exercise of the powers conferred by section 64 of the 1980 Act (dual carriageways and roundabouts).
13.—(1) With effect from the [date of publication of this Order] [the date of certification by the local highway authority that the agreed alternative right of way has been created to the standard defined in the implementation plan], [the section of] the public right of way (being a [insert one of: footpath/bridleway/byway open to all traffic/restricted byway]) shown marked in [red] between the points [A] and [B] on the rights plan is extinguished.
(2) With effect from [that same date] [insert later date] an alternative section of [insert description of right of way of that same type] as marked in [green] between the points [C] and [D] on the rights plan is created.
(3) In this article—
“implementation plan” means the written plan agreed between the undertaker and the local highway authority for creation of the agreed alternative right of way to the defined standard; and
“local highway authority” has the same meaning as in section 329(1) of the 1980 Act.
14.—(1) The undertaker, during and for the purposes of carrying out the authorised project, 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 (2), prevent all persons from passing along the street.
(2) The undertaker shall provide reasonable access for pedestrians going to or from premises abutting 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.
(3) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1), the undertaker may temporarily stop up, alter or divert the streets specified in columns (1) and (2) of Schedule D (streets to be temporarily stopped up) to the extent specified, by reference to the letters and numbers shown on the works plan, in column (3) of that Schedule.
(4) The undertaker shall not temporarily stop up, alter or divert—
(a)any street specified as mentioned in paragraph (3) without first consulting the street authority; and
(b)any other street without the consent of the street authority which may attach reasonable conditions to any consent.
(5) Any person who suffers loss by the suspension of any private right of way under this article shall be entitled to compensation to be determined, in case of dispute, under Part 1 of the 1961 Act.
15. The undertaker may, for the purposes of the authorised project—
(a)form and lay out means of access, or improve existing means of access, in the location specified in columns (1) and (2) of Schedule E (access to works); and
(b)with the approval of the relevant planning authority after consultation with 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 the undertaker reasonably requires for the purposes of the authorised project.
16.—(1) A street authority and the undertaker 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 authorised by this Order;
(b)the maintenance of the structure of any bridge or tunnel carrying a street over or under a railway;
(c)any stopping up, alteration or diversion of a street authorised by this Order; or
(d)the carrying out in the street of any of the works referred to in article 9(1) (street works).
(2) Such an agreement may, without prejudice to the generality 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;
(b)include an agreement between the undertaker and street authority specifying a reasonable time for the completion of the works; and
(c)contain such terms as to payment and otherwise as the parties consider appropriate.
17. Any bridge or tunnel to be constructed under this Order for carrying a highway over or under a railway shall be constructed in accordance with the plans and specifications approved by the relevant planning authority after consultation with the highway authority.
18.—(1) The undertaker may construct the railway so as to carry it on the level across the highways specified in Schedule K.
(2) The undertaker may in constructing any new level crossing alter the level of any highway specified in Schedule K.
(3) The highway authority and the undertaker may enter into agreements with respect to the construction and maintenance of any new level crossing; and such an agreement may contain such terms as to payment or otherwise as the parties consider appropriate.
(4) In this article—
“new level crossing” means the place at which the railway is authorised by this article to cross a highway on the level; and
“the railway” means the railway authorised to be constructed by this Order.
19.—(1) Subject to the following provisions of this article, the undertaker may not under article 9 (street works) break up or open a street where the street, not being a highway maintainable at public expense (within the meaning of the 1980 Act)—
(a)is under the control or management of, or is maintainable by, railway or tramway undertakers or a navigation authority; or
(b)forms part of a level crossing belonging to any such undertakers or to such an authority or to any other person,
except with the consent of the undertakers or authority or, as the case may be, of the person to whom the level crossing belongs.
(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to the carrying out under this Order of emergency works, within the meaning of Part 3 of the 1991 Act.
(3) A consent given for the purpose of paragraph (1) may be made subject to such reasonable conditions as may be specified by the person giving it but shall not be unreasonably withheld.
(4) In this paragraph “navigation authority” means any person who has a duty or power under any enactment to work, maintain, conserve, improve or control any canal or other inland navigation, navigable river, estuary or harbour.