Stopping up of streets
12.—(1) The undertaker may, in connection with the carrying out of the authorised development, stop up each of the streets specified in columns (1) and (2) of Schedule 7 (streets to be stopped up) to the extent specified, by reference to the letters and numbers shown on the rights of way, streets and access plan, in column (3) of that Schedule.
(2) No street specified in columns (1) and (2) of Schedule 7 (being a street to be stopped up) shall be wholly or partially stopped up under this article unless any of the conditions 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 conditions referred to in paragraph (2) are that—
(a)the undertaker 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 any lessee 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 shall be extinguished; and
(b)the undertaker may appropriate and use for the purposes of the authorised development so much of the street as is stopped up under paragraph (1).
(5) Any person who suffers loss by the suspension or extinguishment of any private right of way under this article shall be entitled to compensation to be determined, in case of dispute, under Part 1 of the 1961 Act.
(6) This article is subject to article 31 (apparatus and rights of statutory undertakers in streets).