The London Underground (Victoria Station Upgrade) Order 2009

Temporary stopping up and diversion of streets

9.—(1) The Company may, during and for the purposes of the execution of the authorised works 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 (3), prevent all persons from passing along the street.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1), the Company may use any street stopped up under the powers conferred by this article as a temporary working site.

(3) The Company shall provide reasonable access for pedestrians going to or from premises abutting a street affected by the exercise of the powers conferred by this article if there would otherwise be no such access.

(4) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1), the Company may exercise the powers conferred by this article in relation to the streets specified in column (2) of Schedule 4 (streets to be temporarily stopped up) to the extent specified, by reference to the letters and numbers shown on the traffic regulation plan and set out in column (3) of that Schedule.

(5) The power conferred by paragraph (4) shall not be used to stop up the carriageway of Bressenden Place such that it is not available for the passage of traffic until a temporary alternative route for the passage of such traffic as is reasonably likely to have used that part of Bressenden Place to be stopped up is provided between points marked A and B on the traffic regulation plan and Victoria Street.

(6) The Company shall following the provision of the temporary alternative route referred to in paragraph (5) maintain that route to the reasonable satisfaction of the street authority and that route (or any subsequent temporary alternative route that meets the requirements of paragraph (5)) shall remain until such time as the temporary stopping up and diversion of Bressenden Place as authorised by paragraph (4) has ended.

(7) The Company shall not exercise the powers conferred by this article—

(a)in relation to any street specified as mentioned in paragraph (4) or (5), without first consulting the street authority; and

(b)in relation to any other street, without the consent of the street authority which may attach reasonable conditions to any consent, but such consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

(8) 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.