The London Gateway Port Harbour Empowerment Order 2008

Power to construct, etc., works

10.—(1) The Harbour Authority may, in the lines or situations, and within the limits of deviation and according to the levels shown on the deposited plans and the deposited sections, construct, operate and maintain the works set out in Schedule 1, or any of them.

(2) For the purposes of, or in connection with, the works authorised by paragraph (1) the Harbour Authority may do any of the following within the limits of deviation for those works—

(a) provide, construct and maintain approaches, roads, pavements, bridges (including bridges over watercourses), road and rail crossings, railway tracks, sidings, ramps, buildings, depots, walls, foundations, fences, gates, tanks, pumps, conduits, pipes, drains, wires, mains, cables, substations, signals, conveyors, cranes, lifts, hoists, lighting masts, radio masts, CCTV cameras and masts, security barriers, weighbridges, stairs, ladders, conveyors, stages, platforms, catwalks, equipment, pontoons and gangways, quays, berths, container handling equipment (including overhead bridge cranes), rail mounted gantries, rubber-tyred gantries, dredged material and aggregate handling washing and grading equipment, roll-on roll-off ship facilities, bulk liquids facilities, general cargo handling and haulage equipment and stagings, together with all such port, harbour, dock, wharf or terminal facilities (including security installations, tanks and pumps and other apparatus (including all utilities plant, conduit, pipes, wires, cables, substations, pumping stations, foul drainage and sewerage treatment plants, and telecommunications apparatus as is required)), plant, machinery, moorings, hydrodynamic dredging equipment, booms and barriers, outfalls, street lighting and signage as may be necessary or convenient;

(b) within the area between the lines marked green on Sheets Nos. 216 and 217 of the deposited plans, construct and maintain permanent works within Works Nos. 11 and 12 for the accommodation or convenience of vessels;

(c) construct, maintain and use apparatus, including mains, sewers, drains, pipes and cables;

(d) alter the course of, or otherwise interfere with, rivers, streams or watercourses;

(e) landscape and construct other works to mitigate any adverse effects of the construction, maintenance and operation of the other authorised works; and

(f) carry out and maintain works for the benefit or protection of persons or premises affected by any of the other authorised works.

(3) For the purposes of, or in connection with the construction, maintenance or use of the authorised works, the Harbour Authority may within the limits of construction activity carry out such construction activity, including the temporary placing of materials, plant or equipment or temporary jetties or the construction of temporary accesses, as may be necessary or expedient.

(4) For the purpose of conveying dredged material from the main channel, and from the manoeuvring, berthing and anchorage sites to the site of Works Nos. 11 to 17 (shown on Sheets Nos. 216 and 217 of the deposited plans) the Harbour Authority may during the construction of Works Nos. 11 to 17 provide and use temporary pipes over, on or under the surface of the river.

(5) The powers of this article are subject to the restrictions set out in Schedule 2.