The Drax Power (Generating Stations) Order 2019

Permanent stopping up of public rights of way

13.—(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 (2) of Schedule 7 (public rights of way to be permanently stopped up) to the extent specified, by reference to the letters and numbers shown on the access and rights of way plans, in column (3) of that Schedule.

(2) No public right of way specified in columns (2) and (3) of the table in Schedule 7 is to be wholly or partly stopped up under this article unless—

(a) it is necessary for the undertaker to take such action in order to prepare the carbon capture readiness reserve space for the installation and operation of carbon capture equipment; and

(b) either—

(i) the new public right of way to be substituted for it, which is specified in column (4) of that table in Schedule 7, has been completed in accordance with the details approved under Requirement 9 and is open for use; or

(ii) a temporary alternative route for the public who 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 stopping up of the public right of way, until the completion and opening of the new public right of way in accordance with sub-paragraph (b).

(3) 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.

(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, under Part 1 of the 1961 Act.