The Portland Harbour Revision Order 2010

PART 2 WORKS

Power to construct, etc., works

3.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Order, the Company may (within the limits of deviation shown on the deposited plans and according to the levels shown on the deposited sections) construct and maintain the whole or part of the following work on and in the bed and foreshore of the harbour, together with all necessary works and conveniences connected with or incidental to them—

Work No. 1

New berthing faces generally to the north and east of New Quay and Coaling Pier Island by the construction of concrete blockwork quay walls and/or piled and suspended deck sections and/or rock armoured rubble mound retaining embankments on or within the area defined by lines drawn as follows—

(a) a line commencing at point North 50° 34.230’, West 2° 26.408’ and extending in an easterly direction for 710 metres to point North 50° 34.352’, West 2° 25.838’(the “main berthing face”); and

(b) a second line commencing at the easternmost point of the said main berthing face and running perpendicular to it in a generally south-southeasterly direction to a point of intersection with an in-line extension of the face of Outer Coaling Pier and then in a generally westerly direction to the easternmost point of Outer Coaling Pier; and

(c) a third line commencing at westernmost point of the said main berthing face and running perpendicular to that line for 30 metres in a generally north-northwesterly direction and then turning at an angle perpendicular to the shoreward arm of Queen’s Pier for 30 metres to a point on the western face of Queen’s Pier and then turning to run along such western face to the most westerly point on New Quay.

Work No. 2

Reclamation of so much of the foreshore and bed of the sea by means of Work No. 1 as lies within the limits of deviation and is required for, or in connection with, the authorised works.

Work No. 3

Two floating linkspans, with appropriate lengths of bridge and bankseat arrangements, guide piles and other securing and adjustment devices, commencing on the new northern and eastern faces of the berthing faces adjacent to the shoreward arm of Queen’s Pier comprised within Work No. 1 each having an overall width of 30 metres.

Work No. 4

A mooring dolphin lying 70 metres to the east of the eastern face of Work No. 1, with bearing piles, mooring structures and reinforced concrete heads, connected to Works No. 1 by a steel access walkway.

Work No. 5

New berthing faces generally to the east of New Quay and Coaling Pier Island by the construction of concrete blockwork quay walls and/or piled and suspended deck sections and/or rock armoured rubble mound retaining embankments on or within the area defined by a line commencing on the most easterly point on the copeline at Boat Lift Jetty and proceeding in a generally easterly direction for approximately 350 metres to point North 50° 34.147’, West 2° 25.940’ then turning in a generally southerly direction terminating at the most easterly point on Admiral’s Steps.

Work No. 6

Reclamation of so much of the foreshore and bed of the sea by means of Work No. 5 as lies within the limits of deviation and is required for, or in connection with, the authorised works.

Work No. 7

New berthing faces and retaining structures to the south and west of Queen’s Pier by the construction of concrete blockwork quay walls including piled and suspended deck sections and rock armoured rubble mound retaining embankments on or within the area defined by a line commencing at the southernmost point of the western face of Queen’s Pier and proceeding for 24 metres as an inline extension of the said western face then turning in a line perpendicular to the line of Queen’s Pier for 30 metres then turning again to run parallel to Queen’s Pier for 94 metres and then turning at an angle of 11 degrees to run in a generally southerly direction to terminate on the northern kerbline of Castletown Road.

Work No. 8

Reclamation of so much of the foreshore and bed of the sea by means of Work No. 7 as lies within the limits of deviation and is required for, or in connection with, the authorised works.

Work No. 9

A floating linkspan, with appropriate length of bridge and bankseat arrangements, guide piles and other securing and adjustment devices, commencing on the eastern face of Work No. 7 and having an overall width of 30 metres.

Work No. 10

Within the controlled area, two lines of mooring dolphins up to 70 metres apart and each extending up to 250 metres in length, with bearing piles, mooring structures and reinforced concrete heads, connected for all or part of their lengths by steel access walkways and the permanent mooring at those dolphins of a floating dry-dock.

Work No. 11

A reinforced concrete or steel pontoon providing access to and from Work No. 10 to and from any other part of the harbour premises as the Company shall consider appropriate with single tubular steel mooring piles, access ramps and retractable/lifting plates.

(2) The Company may construct and maintain the authorised works comprised in Works Nos. 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 11 in such stages and along such lines within the areas described and within the limits of deviation as the Company may from time to time deem appropriate.

(3) The Company may construct, maintain, remove and re-lay the authorised works comprised in Works Nos. 10 and 11 in such locations within the controlled area and within the limits of deviation as the Company may from time to time deem appropriate.

(4) The Company may from time to time within the limits of deviation alter, enlarge, replace, relay, extend or reconstruct temporarily or permanently the authorised works and may maintain the same as altered, enlarged, replaced, relayed, extended or reconstructed.

(5) Not withstanding anything in any other enactment, the Company may, for the purpose of constructing the authorised works, dismantle, remove, deal with and dispose of the whole or any part or parts of the existing Castletown slipway that is currently used for shiprepair and related operations (but, for the avoidance of doubt, excluding the public slipway at Castletown) by Manor Marine, the trading name of MPI Services (UK) Limited, a company incorporated under the Companies Acts 1948 to 1967 (registration number 2590501) and whose registered office is at Unity Chambers, 34 High Street East, Dorchester, DT1 1HA, and the Company may similarly use the guide dolphins located east of Castletown Pier, Deep Water Berth, Inner Coaling Pier catwalk and dolphin, ML Jetty, Camber Jetty and Loading Jetty shown on the deposited plans; and any other structures lying within the limits of deviation and any public rights over the same shall be extinguished.

(6) The authorised works and the bed, banks and shores of the harbour on which the authorised works are constructed and any lands reclaimed shall for all purposes form part of the harbour undertaking of the Company and of the harbour premises and all enactments conferring rights, powers, privileges or immunities or imposing duties, obligations or liabilities upon the Company or its officers, and all byelaws for the time being in force in relation to the harbour undertaking or the harbour premises, shall, so far as relevant, apply to the authorised works and such bed, banks, shores and lands and may be enforced by the Company accordingly.

Power to deviate

4.  Subject to the provisions of this Order, in constructing the authorised works the Company may deviate laterally from the lines or situations shown on the deposited plans to the extent of the limits of deviation and may deviate vertically from the levels shown on the deposited sections to any extent not exceeding three metres upwards or to any extent downwards as may be found necessary or convenient.

Subsidiary works

5.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Order, the Company may from time to time, within the limits of deviation, erect, construct, lay down, place, remove, replace, work or use and maintain whether temporarily or permanently all such works, conveniences, appliances and apparatus and take such measures as it from time to time considers fit for the purposes of, or in connection with, or incidental to the construction, maintenance and use of the authorised works, including but not limited to, trial boreholes, abutments, booms, pontoons, fenders, ladders, tanks, pumps, conduits, pipes, pipelines, wires, mains, cables, rails, signals, conveyors, cranes, lifts, drops, loading racks, chiksan arms and other cargo handling equipment for solid, liquid or gas cargoes, lifting equipment, weighbridges, stairs, stagings, quays, jetties, piers, waterways, bridges, approaches, slipways, catwalks, landing places, berthing heads, dolphins, mooring posts, buoys, bollards, buildings, sheds, silos, tanks and storage tanks, repair and machine shops, offices, depots, car parks (including multi-storey), roads, walls, bunds, fences, gates, equipment, machinery, appliances, navigation marks and lights and including in particular—

(a) construction of general and temperature controlled cargo transit sheds within the areas noted on the deposited plans as sheds or general cargo transit sheds;

(b) construction of new or extended passenger and cruise terminals within the areas so described on the deposited plans, together with ancillary facilities including stores for baggage and general cargo;

(c) construction of administration offices and workshops within the area described on the deposited plans as administration and workshops;

(d) construction of marshalling yards, public moorings and public car parking within the areas so described on the deposited plans;

(e) construction of ship repair, maintenance and rebuild facilities for all vessels in the harbour within the area so described on the deposited plans,

together with ancillary accesses, lighting, services and other facilities.

(2) In the course of erecting, constructing, laying down, placing, removing and replacing the authorised works the Company may carry out construction activity, including the temporary placing of plant and equipment, within the water adjoining the limits of deviation.

Period for completion of works

6.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3), if the authorised works comprised in Works Nos. 1 and 2 have not been constructed so as to create new berthing faces measuring 350 metres in aggregate within 50 years from the coming into force of this Order or such extended time as the Secretary of State may, on the application of the Company allow, then, on the expiration of that period, or such extended time (as the case may be), the powers granted by this Order to the Company for constructing and maintaining the authorised works comprised in Works Nos. 1 to 4 (inclusive) shall cease except as to so much of them as is then substantially commenced.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), if the authorised works comprised in Works Nos. 5 to 11 (inclusive) are not completed within 50 years from the coming into force of this Order or such extended time as the Secretary of State may, on the application of the Company allow, then, on the expiration of that period, or such extended time (as the case may be), the powers granted by this Order to the Company for constructing and maintaining such authorised works shall cease except as to so much of them as is then substantially commenced.

(3) Nothing in paragraph (1) or (2) shall apply to any works carried out under paragraph (4) of article 3 or article 5.

Works to be within the district of Weymouth and Portland

7.—(1) On the accretion date, the area of the whole or so much of the works authorised by article 3 and article 5 as shall have been completed or substantially completed shall, to the extent that they are outside the area of Weymouth and Portland Borough Council, be annexed to and incorporated within—

(a) the district of Weymouth and Portland;

(b) the petty sessional division of Weymouth and Portland; and

(c) the Underhill Ward.

(2) In this article, “accretion date” means whichever of the following dates first occurs, namely, the date when the works so authorised have been completed or the date when the powers conferred by article 4 shall cease to have effect.

(3) Nothing in this article shall require the performance of any functions under the Ordnance Survey Act 1841(1) until the Company has certified in writing to the Director General of Ordnance Survey that the authorised works have been completed.

Power to dredge

8.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Order, the Company may, for the purposes of constructing and maintaining the authorised works and to afford uninterrupted means of access to the authorised works and enabling their use at all states of the tide, from time to time deepen, dredge, scour, cleanse, alter and improve the bed, shores and channels of the harbour within an area not exceeding 35 metres in width adjacent to all berthing faces created as part of the authorised works to a depth of not more than 14 metres below Chart Datum (unless the Secretary of State shall otherwise approve in writing).

(2) The Company may as it thinks fit use, appropriate or dispose of any materials (other than wreck within the meaning of Part IX of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995(2)) from time to time dredged, taken or collected by it in the course of any such operations.

(3) No materials referred to in this article shall—

(a) be disposed of in contravention of the provisions of any enactment relating to the disposal of waste; or

(b) be deposited below the level of high water except in such places and in accordance with such conditions and restrictions as may be approved or prescribed by the Secretary of State.

Obstruction of works

9.  Any person who intentionally obstructs any person acting under the authority of the Company in setting out the lines of the authorised works, or who interferes with, moves or removes any pole, stake, station point or bench mark established for the purpose of such setting out, shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

Tidal works not to be executed without approval of Secretary of State

10.—(1) A tidal work shall not be constructed, altered, replaced or re-laid except in accordance with plans and sections approved by the Secretary of State and subject to any conditions and restrictions imposed by the Secretary of State before the work is begun.

(2) If a tidal work is constructed, altered, replaced or re-laid in contravention of this article or of any condition or restriction imposed under this article—

(a) the Secretary of State may by notice in writing require the Company at its own expense to remove the tidal work or any part of it and restore its site to its former condition; and if, on the expiration of 30 days from the date when the notice is served upon the Company, it has failed to comply with the requirements of the notice, the Secretary of State may execute the works specified in the notice; or

(b) if it appears to the Secretary of State urgently necessary to do so, he may remove the tidal work or part of it and restore the site to its former condition,

and any expenditure incurred by the Secretary of State in so doing shall be recoverable from the Company.

Provision against danger to navigation

11.—(1) In case of injury to, or destruction or decay of, a tidal work or any part of it the Company shall as soon as reasonably practicable notify Trinity House and shall lay down such buoys, exhibit such lights and take such other steps for preventing danger to navigation as Trinity House shall from time to time direct.

(2) If the Company fails to notify Trinity House as required by this article or to comply in any respect with a direction given under this article, the Company shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum and on conviction on indictment to a fine.

Abatement of works abandoned or decayed

12.—(1) Where a tidal work is abandoned or suffered to fall into decay, the Secretary of State may by notice in writing require the Company at its own expense either to repair and restore the work or any part of it, or to remove the work and restore its site to its former condition, to such an extent and within such limits as the Secretary of State thinks proper.

(2) Where an authorised work consisting—

(a) partly of a tidal work, and

(b) partly of works on or over land above the level of high water,

is abandoned or suffered to fall into decay and the works mentioned in sub-paragraph (b) are in such condition as to interfere or to cause reasonable apprehension that they may interfere with the right of navigation or other public rights over the foreshore, the Secretary of State may include those works, or any portion thereof, in any notice under paragraph (1).

(3) If, on the expiration of 30 days from the date when a notice under this article is served upon the Company, it has failed to comply with the requirements of the notice, the Secretary of State may execute the works specified in the notice and any expenditure incurred by the Secretary of State in so doing shall be recoverable from the Company.

Survey of tidal works

13.  The Secretary of State may at any time, if he deems it expedient to do so, order a survey and examination of a tidal work or of the site upon which it is proposed to construct the work and any expenditure incurred by the Secretary of State in so doing shall be recoverable from the Company.

Permanent lights on tidal works

14.—(1) After the completion of a tidal work the Company shall at the outer extremity of such work exhibit every night from sunset to sunrise such lights, if any, and take such other steps, if any, for the prevention of danger to navigation as Trinity House shall from time to time direct.

(2) If the Company fails to comply in any respect with a direction given under this article, it shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum and on conviction on indictment to a fine.

Lights on tidal works during construction, etc.

15.—(1) The Company shall at or near a tidal work during the whole time of the construction, extension, enlargement, alteration, replacement or re-laying of such work exhibit every night from sunset to sunrise such lights, if any, and take such other steps, if any, for the prevention of danger to navigation as the Secretary of State shall from time to time direct.

(2) If the Company fails to comply in any respect with a direction given under this article, it shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum and on conviction on indictment to a fine.

Defence of due diligence

16.—(1) In proceedings for an offence under articles 11, 14 or 15 it shall be a defence for the Company to prove that it took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of such an offence.

(2) If in any case the defence provided by paragraph (1)involves the allegation that the commission of the offence was due to the act or default of another person, the Company shall not, without leave of the court, be entitled to rely on that defence unless, within a period of seven clear days before the hearing, it has served on the prosecutor a notice in writing giving such information identifying, or assisting in the identification of, that other person as was then in its possession.

(1)

1841 c. 30.

(2)

1995 c. 21.