The Docklands Light Railway (Silvertown and London City Airport Extension) Order 2002

Streets E+W

Power to alter layout of streets E+W

7.—(1) DLRL may alter the layout of any street specified in columns (1) and (2) of Schedule 4 to this Order in the manner specified in relation to that street in column (3) of that Schedule.

(2) Without prejudice to the specific powers conferred by paragraph (1) above but subject to paragraph (3) below, DLRL may for the purpose of constructing, maintaining or using any scheduled work alter the layout of any street within the limits of deviation and the layout of any street having a junction with such a street; and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, DLRL may—

(a) increase the width of the carriageway of the street by reducing the width of any kerb, footpath, footway, cycle track or verge within the street;

(b) alter the level or increase the width of any such kerb, footpath, footway, cycle track or verge;

(c) reduce the width of the carriageway of the street; and

(d) carry out works for the provision or alteration of parking places and bus laybys.

(3) The powers in paragraph (2) above shall not be exercised without the consent of the street authority, but such consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

Power to keep apparatus in streets E+W

8.—(1) DLRL may, for the purposes of or in connection with the construction, maintenance and use of the authorised works, place and maintain in any street within the limits of deviation and in any street having a junction with such a street any work, equipment or apparatus including, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, foundations, road islands, substations, electric lines and any electrical or other apparatus.

(2) In this article—

(a) “apparatus” has the same meaning as in Part III of the 1991 Act;

(b) “electric line” has the meaning given by section 64(1) of the Electricity Act 1989 M1 ; and

(c) the reference to any work, equipment, apparatus or other thing in a street includes a reference to any work, equipment, apparatus or other thing under, over, along or upon the street.

Marginal Citations

M1 1989 c. 29.

Power to execute street works E+W

9.  DLRL may, for the purpose of exercising the powers conferred by article 8 above or any other provision of this Order, enter upon any street within the limits of deviation and any street having a junction with such a street and may execute any works required for or incidental to the exercise of those powers including, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, breaking up or opening the street, or any sewer, drain or tunnel under it, or tunnelling or boring under the street.

Stopping up of streets E+W

10.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this article DLRL may, in connection with the construction of the authorised works, stop up each of the streets specified in columns (1) and (2) of Part I and Part III of Schedule 5 to this Order and stop up vehicular rights of access and egress in each of the streets mentioned in columns (1) and (2) of Part II of that Schedule to the extent specified, by reference to the letters and numbers shown on the deposited plans, in column (3) of Parts I, II and III of that Schedule.

(2) No street specified in columns (1) and (2) of Part I of Schedule 5 (being a street to be stopped up for which a substitute is to be provided) shall be wholly or partly stopped up under this article unless either—

(a) the new street to be substituted for it, and which is specified in relation to it by reference to one of the scheduled works mentioned in column (4) 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 is first provided and thereafter maintained by DLRL to the reasonable satisfaction of the street authority between the commencement and termination points of the street to be stopped up until completion of the new street in accordance with sub-paragraph (a) above.

(3) No street specified in columns (1) to (3) of Part III of Schedule 5 to this Order (being a street to be stopped up for which no substitute is to be provided) shall be wholly or partly stopped up under this article unless the condition specified in paragraph (4) below is satisfied in relation to all the relevant land; and for this purpose “relevant land” means any land which abuts on either side of the street to be stopped up.

(4) The condition referred to in paragraph (3) above is that—

(a) DLRL is in possession of the land; or

(b) there is no right of access to the land from the street concerned; or

(c) there is reasonably convenient access to the land otherwise than from the street concerned; or

(d) the owners and occupiers of the land have agreed to the stopping up.

(5) Where a street has been stopped up under this article—

(a) all rights of way (or in the case of a street specified in Part II of Schedule 5 to this Order all vehicular rights of way) over or along it shall be extinguished; and

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

(6) Any person who suffers loss by the extinguishment or suspension of any private right of way under this article shall be entitled to compensation to be determined, in case of dispute, under Part I of the 1961 Act.

(7) This article is subject to paragraph 2 of Schedule 10 to this Order.

Temporary stopping up of streets E+W

11.—(1) DLRL 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) below, prevent all persons from passing along the street.

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

(3) DLRL shall provide at all times 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) above, DLRL may exercise the powers of this article in relation to the streets specified in columns (1) and (2) of Schedule 5 to this Order to the extent specified, by reference to the letters and numbers shown on the deposited plans and set out in column (3) of that Schedule, and in relation to the streets specified in Schedule 6 to this Order.

(5) DLRL shall not exercise the powers of this article—

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

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

Access to works E+W

12.  DLRL may, for the purposes of the construction or operation of the scheduled works, form and lay out such means of access or improve such existing means of access, to streets within the limits of deviation, as may be approved by the highway authority, but such approval shall not be unreasonably withheld.

Construction and maintenance of new or altered streets E+W

13.—(1) Any street to be constructed under this Order shall be completed to the reasonable satisfaction of the highway authority and shall, unless otherwise agreed, be maintained by and at the expense of DLRL for a period of 12 months from its completion and at the expiry of that period by and at the expense of the highway authority.

(2) Where a street is altered or diverted under this Order, the altered or diverted part of the street shall when completed to the reasonable satisfaction of the street authority, unless otherwise agreed, be maintained by and at the expense of DLRL for a period of 12 months from its completion and at the expiry of that period by and at the expense of the street authority.

Agreements with street authorities E+W

14.—(1) A street authority and DLRL may enter into agreements with respect to—

(a) the construction of any new street (including any structure carrying the street over or under a railway) under the powers conferred by this Order;

(b) the strengthening or improvement of any street under the powers conferred by this Order;

(c) the maintenance of any street or of the structure of any bridge or tunnel carrying a street over or under a railway;

(d) any stopping up, alteration or diversion of a street under the powers conferred by this Order; or

(e) the execution in the street of any of the works referred to in article 9 above.

(2) Such an agreement may, without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1) above—

(a) provide for the street authority to carry out any function under this Order which relates to the street in question; and

(b) contain such terms as to payment and otherwise as the parties consider appropriate.