The A66 Northern Trans-Pennine Development Consent Order 2024

Temporary prohibition, restriction or regulation of use or alteration or diversion of streets

11.—(1) The undertaker may, during and for the purposes of constructing the authorised development, temporarily prohibit, restrict or regulate the use of, or temporarily alter or divert 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 temporarily prohibited, restricted, regulated, altered or diverted 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 prohibition, restriction, regulation, alteration or diversion of a street under this article if there would otherwise be no such access.

(4) The undertaker must not temporarily prohibit, restrict or regulate the use of or alter or divert any street for which it is not the street authority without the consent of the street authority, which may attach reasonable conditions to any consent, but its consent must not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.

(5) 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, as if it were a dispute under Part 1 (determination of questions of disputed compensation) of the 1961 Act.