The Thames Water Utilities Limited (Thames Tideway Tunnel) Order 2014

Stopping up of streets

13.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this article, the undertaker may, in connection with the carrying out of the authorised project, stop up each of the streets specified in column (2) of Schedule 6 (streets to be stopped up) to the extent specified in column (3) of that Schedule and shown on the relevant access plan.

(2) No street specified in column (2) of Schedule 6 (being a street to be stopped up) shall 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 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 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 shall be extinguished; and

(b) the undertaker may use for the purposes of the authorised project 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 43 (apparatus and rights of statutory undertakers in stopped up streets).