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PART 2WORKS PROVISIONS

Streets

Stopping up of street

11.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this article, the Company may, in connection with the carrying out of the authorised works, stop up Footpath S&R 31 between points P1 and P2 on sheet 3 of the Order plans.

(2) The street referred to in paragraph (1) is not to be wholly or partly stopped up under this article unless—

(a)a new street has been constructed and substituted for it between points P1, P4 and P2 on sheet 3 of the Order plans to the reasonable satisfaction of the street authority and is open for use; or

(b)a temporary alternative route for the passage of such persons as could have used the street to be stopped up is first provided and subsequently maintained by the Company, to the reasonable satisfaction of the street authority, between points P1, P3, P2 and P5 on sheet 3 of the Order plans until the completion and opening of the new street in accordance with sub-paragraph (a).

(3) Where Footpath S&R 31 has been stopped up under this article—

(a)all rights of way over or along it are extinguished; and

(b)the Company may appropriate and use for the purposes of its railway undertaking so much of the site of the street as is bounded on both sides by land owned by the Company.

(4) Any person who suffers loss by the suspension or extinguishment of any private 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.

(5) This article is subject to paragraph 2 of Schedule 6 (provisions relating to statutory undertakers etc.) to this Order.