The Merseytram (Liverpool City Centre to Kirkby) Order 2005

Principal powers

Power to construct and maintain works

5.—(1) Merseytravel may construct and maintain the scheduled works.

(2) Subject to article 6, the scheduled works may only be constructed in the lines or situations shown on the works and land plans and in accordance with the levels shown on the sections.

(3) Subject to paragraph (7), Merseytravel may carry out and maintain such of the following works as may be necessary or expedient for the purposes of, in connection with or in consequence of, the construction of the scheduled works, namely—

(a)stations, platforms, junctions and stopping places;

(b)works required for, or in connection with, the control of any vehicular and pedestrian traffic on the authorised tram system;

(c)works required for the strengthening, improvement, repair or reconstruction of any street;

(d)works for the strengthening, alteration or demolition of any building or structure;

(e)works to alter the position of any street furniture or apparatus, including mains, sewers, drains, pipes, cables and lights;

(f)works to alter the course of, or otherwise interfere with rivers, streams or watercourses;

(g)landscaping, ecological and other works to mitigate any adverse effects of the construction, maintenance or operation of the other authorised works; and

(h)facilities and works for the benefit or protection of land or premises affected by the other authorised works.

(4) Subject to paragraph (7), Merseytravel may carry out and maintain such other works (of whatever nature) as may be necessary or expedient for the purposes of, in connection with or in consequence of, the construction of the scheduled works.

(5) Merseytravel may remove any works constructed by it pursuant to this Order which have been constructed as temporary works or which it no longer requires.

(6) Where Merseytravel lays down conduits for the accommodation of cables or other apparatus for the purposes of or associated with the authorised works it may provide in, or in connection with, such conduits, accommodation for the apparatus of any other person, and manholes and other facilities for access to such accommodation, and may permit the use of such conduits and facilities on such terms and conditions as may be agreed between it and such other person.

(7) Paragraphs (3) and (4) shall only authorise the carrying out or maintenance of works—

(a)within the Order limits; and

(b)within the boundaries of any street along which the construction of a street tramway is shown on the works and land plans, or which has a junction with such a street.

(8) The powers of this article shall not be exercised within the boundaries of a street outside of the Order limits which has a junction with a street along which the construction of a street tramway is shown on the works and land plans without the consent of the street authority but such consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

(9) Section 109 of the Water Resources Act 1991(1), section 23 of the Land Drainage Act 1991(2) and any byelaws made under those Acts shall not apply to anything done under or in pursuance of this Order.

Power to deviate

6.—(1) In constructing or maintaining any of the scheduled works, Merseytravel may—

(a)deviate laterally from the lines or situations shown on the works and land plans within the Order limits relating to that work shown on those plans; and

(b)deviate vertically from the levels shown on the sections—

(i)to any extent not exceeding 3 metres upwards; and

(ii)to any extent downwards as may be necessary or expedient.

(2) In constructing or maintaining any work or part of a work shown on the works and land plans as being situated in a street and for which no limits of deviation are shown on those plans, Merseytravel may deviate laterally within the boundaries of that street.

(3) Merseytravel may in constructing or maintaining any of the authorised street tramways lay down—

(a)double lines of rails in lieu of single lines;

(b)single lines of rails in lieu of double lines;

(c)interlacing lines of rails in lieu of double or single lines; or

(d)double or single lines of rails in lieu of interlacing lines.

(4) The power in paragraph (3) shall not be exercised in the case of any authorised street tramway without the consent of the street authority, but such consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

(5) Merseytravel may in constructing or maintaining any of the authorised street tramways lay down such number of switches and crossings as may be necessary or expedient.

(6) Merseytravel may in constructing and maintaining any of the authorised tramroads provide within the limits of deviation for those tramroads such number of lines of rails and sidings, switchings and crossings as may be necessary or expedient.

(7) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1)—

(a)in constructing and maintaining Work No. 1 Merseytravel may, to the extent it thinks fit, deviate from the design of the bridges shown on the sections, including by varying the number of any supporting columns or other structures, the distances between them and the height or clearance above the level of the water underneath the bridges; and

(b)in constructing and maintaining the scheduled works Merseytravel may, to the extent it thinks fit, deviate laterally from their points of commencement and termination shown on the works and land plans.

Designation of works

7.—(1) Notwithstanding anything in the description of the scheduled works contained in Schedule 1 to this Order—

(a)the whole or any part of an authorised street tramway may be constructed within the limits of deviation for that work off-street as a tramroad, and so far as it is so constructed shall be treated for the purposes of this Order as if it were so designated; and

(b)the whole or any part of an authorised tramroad may be constructed within the limits of deviation for that work along a street as a street tramway, and so far as it is constructed shall be treated for the purposes of this Order as if it were so designated.

(2) Where, by means of the creation or extinguishment of rights of way, any part of the authorised tram system which has been constructed as a tramroad becomes a street tramway, or any part which was constructed as a street tramway becomes a tramroad, it shall be treated for the purposes of this Order as if it were so designated.