The Hirwaun Generating Station Order 2015

Temporary prohibition or restriction of use of streets

11.—(1) The undertaker, during and for the purposes of carrying out the authorised development, may temporarily alter, divert, prohibit the use of or restrict the use of 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 prejudice to the scope of paragraph (1), the undertaker may use any street where the use has been prohibited or restricted 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 and cyclists going to or from premises abutting a street affected by the temporary alteration, diversion, prohibition or restriction of a street under this article if there would otherwise be no such access.

(4) The undertaker must not temporarily alter, divert, prohibit the use of or restrict the use of any street without the consent of the street authority which may attach reasonable conditions to any consent

(5) If a street authority fails to notify the undertaker of its decision within 8 weeks of receiving an application for consent under paragraph (4) that street authority is deemed to have granted consent.

(6) This article does not remove the requirement for the undertaker to obtain any order required under sections 1, 9 or 22BB of the 1984 Act.