PART 3STREETS
Permanent stopping up of public rights of wayI113
1
Subject to the provisions of this article, the undertaker may, in connection with the carrying out of the authorised development, stop up each of the public rights of way specified in column (1) of Parts 1 and 2 of Schedule 3 (permanent stopping up of public rights of way) to the extent specified and described in column (2) of that Schedule.
2
No public right of way specified in column (1) of Part 1 of Schedule 3 is to be wholly or partly stopped up under this article unless—
a
the new public right of way to be constructed and substituted for it, which is specified in column (3) 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 public right of way 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 public right of way until the completion and opening of the new public right of way in accordance with sub-paragraph (a).
3
No public right of way specified in column (1) of Part 1 or Part 2 of Schedule 3 is to be wholly or partly stopped up under this article unless Kent County Council has been notified six weeks before any planned diversion or closure of the public right of way.
4
Where a public right of way has been stopped up under this article—
a
all rights of way over or along the public right of way so stopped up are extinguished; and
b
the undertaker may appropriate and use for the purposes of the authorised development so much of the site of the public right of way as is bounded on both sides by land owned by the undertaker.
5
Any person who suffers loss by the suspension or extinguishment of any public right of way under this article is entitled to compensation to be determined, in case of dispute, as if it were a dispute under Part 1 of the 1961 Act.
6
This article is subject to article 32 (apparatus and rights of statutory undertakers in stopped-up streets).