The London Underground (Bank Station Capacity Upgrade) Order 2015

Stopping up of streets

12.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this article, the Company may, in connection with the construction of the authorised works, stop up each of the streets specified in columns (1) and (2) of Schedule 3 (streets to be stopped up) to the extent specified in column (3) of that Schedule.

(2) No street specified in columns (1) and (2) of Schedule 3 (being a street to be stopped up for which no substitute is to be provided) is to be wholly or partly stopped up under this article unless the condition specified in paragraph (3) is satisfied in relation to all the land which abuts on either side of the street to be stopped up.

(3) The condition referred to in paragraph (2) is that—

(a) the Company 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.

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

(a) all rights of way over or along the street so stopped up are extinguished; and

(b) the Company may appropriate and use for the purposes of its railway undertaking so much of the street so stopped up.

(5) 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, under Part 1 of the 1961 Act.

(6) This article is subject to paragraph 2 of Schedule 10 (provisions relating to statutory undertakers etc.) and paragraph 4 of Schedule 11 (protection for electricity, gas, water and sewerage undertakers).