The North Wales Wind Farms Connection Order 2016

Street works

10.—(1) The undertaker may, for the purposes of the authorised development, enter on so much of any of the streets specified in Schedule 4 (streets subject to street works) as is within the Order limits and may—

(a) break up or open the street, or any sewer, drain or tunnel under it;

(b) tunnel or bore under the street;

(c) place and keep apparatus in the street;

(d) maintain apparatus in the street or change its position;

(e) carry out all necessary works required for the exercise of article 9 (power to alter layout, etc., of streets);

(f) place and keep during the construction and installation of the authorised development scaffolding on any verge to a street;

(g) remove or use all earth and materials in or under any street; and

(h) execute any works required for or incidental to any works referred to in sub-paragraphs (a) to (g).

(2) The authority given by paragraph (1) is a statutory right for the purposes of section 48(3) (streets, street works and undertakers) and 51(1) (prohibition of unauthorised street works) of the 1991 Act.

(3) The powers conferred in paragraphs (1) and (2) are without prejudice to the powers of the undertaker under the Electricity Act 1989.

(4) In this article “apparatus” has the meaning given in Part 3 of the 1991 Act.

(5) The provisions of sections 54 to 106 of the 1991 Act apply to any street works carried out under paragraph (1).