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

7.—(1) Where any street is stopped up under article 12 (stopping up of streets) and any National Grid apparatus is in the street or accessed by that street National Grid is entitled to the same rights in respect of such apparatus as it enjoyed immediately before the stopping up and the undertaker must grant to National Grid legal easements reasonably satisfactory to National Grid in respect of such apparatus and access to it prior to the stopping up of any such street. Any apparatus of National Grid required to be moved by the undertaker must be dealt with under paragraphs 10 and 11 of this Part of this Schedule and not under article 31(2) to (8) (apparatus and rights of statutory undertakers in stopped up streets) regardless of its inclusion in the Order.

(2) Regardless of the temporary stopping up or diversion of any highway under the powers conferred by article 13 (temporary prohibition or restriction of use of streets), National Grid is at liberty at all times to take all necessary access across any such stopped up highway and to execute and do all such works and things in, upon or under any such highway as may be reasonably necessary to enable it to maintain any apparatus which at the time of the stopping up or diversion was in that highway.