The Silvertown Tunnel Order 2018

And for the purposes of or in connection with the construction of any of the works and other development mentioned above, ancillary or related development consisting of—

(a)works within highways, including—

(i)alteration of the layout of any street permanently or temporarily, including increasing the width of the carriageway of any street by reducing the width of any kerb, footway, cycleway, or verge within the street; and altering the level or increasing the width of any such kerb, footway, cycleway or verge within the street, works for the strengthening, improvement, repair, maintenance or reconstruction of any street;

(ii)street works, including breaking up or opening a street, or any sewer, drain or tunnel under it, and tunnelling or boring under a street;

(iii)relocation or provision of new road traffic signs, signals, street lighting and carriageway lane markings; and

(iv)works to place, alter, remove or maintain street furniture or apparatus (including statutory undertakers' apparatus) in, under or above a street, including mains, sewers, drains, pipes, cables, cofferdams, lights, fencing and other boundary treatments;

(b)works within the river Thames (to the extent that they are situated within the Order limits) to—

(i)alter, clean, modify, dismantle, refurbish, reconstruct, remove, relocate or replace any work or structure (including river walls);

(ii)carry out excavations and clearance, deepening, scouring, cleansing, dumping and pumping operations;

(iii)carry out dredging, which may include such dredging works as may be required to provide side slopes or otherwise secure the dredged area against situation, scouring or collapse;

(iv)use, appropriate, sell, deposit or otherwise dispose of any materials (including liquids but excluding any wreck within the meaning of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 M1) obtained in carrying out any such operations;

(v)remove or relocate any mooring (including NAABSAs (Not Always Afloat But Safely Aground) being berths in tidal waters, which are exposed at low water);

(vi)remove and relocate any vessel or structure sunk, stranded, abandoned, moored or left (whether lawfully or not);

(vii)temporarily remove, alter, strengthen, interfere with, occupy and use the banks, bed, foreshore, waters and walls of the river, and in the event that the level of any part of the bed of the river is of a depth exceeding 5.80 metres below chart datum, re-establish the affected part of the bed of the river to that level in accordance with approval given by the PLA under paragraph 34 of Schedule 13 (protective provisions); and

(viii)construct, place and maintain works and structures including piled fenders, protection piles and cofferdams; and

(c)other works and development—

(i)for the strengthening, alteration or demolition of any building;

(ii)to place, alter, divert, relocate, protect, remove or maintain services, plant and other apparatus and equipment belonging to statutory undertakers, utility companies and others in, under or above land, including mains, sewers, drains, pipes, cables, lights, cofferdams, fencing and other boundary treatments including bollards;

(iii)ramps, steps, footpaths, footways, cycle tracks, cycleways, bridleways, equestrian tracks, non-motorised user routes or links, byways open to all traffic and crossing facilities;

(iv)embankments, viaducts, bridges, aprons, abutments, shafts, foundations, retaining walls, drainage works, outfalls, pollution control devices, pumping stations, culverts, wing walls, fire suppression system water tanks and associated plant and equipment, highway lighting and fencing;

(v)settlement mitigation measures for the benefit or protection of, or in relation to, any land, building or structure, including monitoring and safeguarding of existing infrastructure, utilities and services affected by the authorised development;

(vi)to alter the course of, or otherwise interfere with, navigable or non-navigable watercourses;

(vii)landscaping, noise barriers, works associated with the provision of ecological mitigation, and other works to mitigate any adverse effects of the construction, operation or maintenance of the authorised development;

(viii)areas of hard or soft landscaping works, or public realm, at various locations adjacent to the proposed highway and associated works;

(ix)site preparation works, site clearance (including fencing and other boundary treatments, vegetation removal, works of demolition, including demolition of existing structures, and the creation of alternative highways or footpaths) and earthworks (including soil stripping and storage and site levelling);

(x)construction compounds and working sites, temporary structures, storage areas (including storage of spoil and other materials), temporary vehicle parking, construction fencing, perimeter enclosure, security fencing, construction-related buildings, temporary worker accommodation facilities, welfare facilities, office facilities, other ancillary accommodation, construction lighting, haulage roads and other buildings, machinery, apparatus, works and conveniences;

(xi)service compounds, plant and equipment rooms, offices, staff mess rooms, welfare facilities, and other ancillary and administrative accommodation;

(xii)for the benefit or protection of the authorised development; and

(xiii)of whatever nature, as may be necessary or expedient for the purposes of, or for purposes associated with or ancillary to, the construction, operation or maintenance of the authorised development which do not give rise to any materially new or materially different environmental effects to those assessed in the environmental statement.