Further works: supplementary provision
14.—(1) The Executive may permanently stop up all or any of Chadwick Street as existing between points W and X shown on the works plans upon the practical completion of Work No. 1 authorised by article 13(1) above to the reasonable satisfaction of the street authority and its opening for use.
(2) The Executive may permanently stop up all or any of Waterloo Street as existing between points Y and Z shown on the works plans upon the practical completion of Work No. 2 authorised by article 13(1) above to the reasonable satisfaction of the street authority and its opening for use.
(3) For the purposes of the construction of the road works, the Executive may temporarily stop up or alter Waterloo Street, Chadwick Street, Chadwick Street South and Black Bull Street in the City and for any reasonable time—
(a)divert traffic from any of those streets, and
(b)subject to paragraphs (4) and (5) below, prevent all persons from passing along those streets.
(4) The Executive shall provide reasonable access for pedestrians going to or from premises abutting on a street affected by the exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph (3) above if there would otherwise be no such access.
(5) The Executive shall not exercise the powers of paragraph (3) above without the consent of the street authority, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld.
(6) When Work No. 1 or Work No. 2 authorised by article 13(1) above is completed to the reasonable satisfaction of the street authority, unless otherwise agreed the realigned part of the street shall be maintained by and at the expense of the Executive for a period of 12 months from its completion and at the expiry of that period by and at the expense of the street authority.
(7) Nothing in paragraph (6) above shall prejudice the operation of section 87 of the 1991 Act (prospectively maintainable highways); and the Executive shall not by reason of any duty under this article to maintain a street be taken to be the street authority in relation to that street for the purposes of Part III of that Act.
(8) Nothing in paragraph (6) above shall have effect in relation to street works as respects which the provisions of Part III of the 1991 Act apply.
(9) The street authority and the Executive may enter into agreements with respect to the exercise of the powers conferred by article 13 above and this article, and without prejudice to the generality of this paragraph, such an agreement may provide for the street authority to carry out any function under this Part which relates to the street in question, and contain such terms as to payment and otherwise as the parties consider appropriate.