The Central Bedfordshire Council (Woodside Link Houghton Regis) Development Consent Order 2014

Temporary prohibition or restriction of use of streets

13.—(1) The undertaker, during and for the purposes of carrying out the authorised development, may temporarily alter, divert, prohibit or restrict the use of any street and may for any reasonable time—

(a) divert the traffic from the street; and

(b) subject to paragraph (3), prevent all persons from passing along the street.

(2) Without limitation on the scope of paragraph (1), the undertaker may use any street where the use has been prohibited or restricted under the powers conferred by this article and within the Order limits as a temporary working site.

(3) The undertaker must provide reasonable access for pedestrians going to or from premises abutting a street affected by the temporary alteration, diversion, prohibition or restriction of a street under this article if there would otherwise be no such access.

(4) Without limitation on the scope of paragraph (1), the undertaker may temporarily alter, divert, prohibit or restrict the use of the streets specified in columns (1) and (2) of Schedule 5 (temporary prohibition or restriction of use of streets) to the extent specified in column (3) of that Schedule.

(5) The undertaker must not temporarily alter, divert, or prohibit or restrict the use of—

(a) any street specified as mentioned in paragraph (4) without first consulting the street authority; and

(b) any other street, without the consent of the street authority, which may attach reasonable conditions to any consent, but such consent must not be unreasonably withheld,

except that this paragraph does not apply where the undertaker is the street authority.

(6) Any person who suffers loss by the suspension 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.

(7) If a street authority fails to notify the undertaker of its decision within 28 days of receiving an application for consent under paragraph (5)(b) that street authority is deemed to have granted consent.