PART 2Principal powers
Stopping up of streets11.
(1)
Subject to the provisions of this article, the undertaker may, in connection with the carrying out of the authorised development, stop up each of the streets specified in columns (1) and (2) of Schedule 3 (streets to be stopped up) to the extent specified, by reference to the letters and numbers shown on the access plan, in column (3) of that Schedule.
(2)
No street specified in columns (1) and (2) of Schedule 3 (being a street to be stopped up for which a substitute is to be provided) may be wholly or partly stopped up under this article unless—
(a)
the new street to be substituted for it, which is specified in column (4) of that Schedule, has been completed to the reasonable satisfaction of the street authority and is open for use; or
(b)
a temporary alternative route for the passage of such traffic as could have used the street to be stopped up is first provided and subsequently maintained by the undertaker, to the reasonable satisfaction of the street authority, between the commencement and termination points for the stopping up of the street until the completion and opening of the new street in accordance with sub-paragraph (a).
(3)
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.
(4)
This article is subject to article 30 (apparatus etc of statutory undertakers in stopped-up streets).
(5)
This article does not relieve the undertaker from any obligation to obtain an order under sections 247 or 257 of the 1990 Act.