17.—(1) The Company may use any watercourse or any public sewer or drain for the drainage of water in connection with the construction, operation or maintenance of the authorised works and for that purpose may lay down, take up and alter pipes and may, on any land within the Order limits, make openings into, and connections with, the watercourse, public sewer or drain.
(2) Any dispute arising from the exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph (1) to connect to or use a public sewer or drain is to be determined as if it were a dispute under section 106 of the Water Industry Act 1991(1).
(3) The Company must not discharge any water into any watercourse, public sewer or drain except with the consent of the person to whom it belongs; and such consent may be given subject to such terms and conditions as that person may reasonably impose, but must not be unreasonably withheld.
(4) The Company must not make any opening into any public sewer or drain except—
(a)in accordance with plans approved by the person to whom the sewer or drain belongs, but such approval must not be unreasonably withheld; and
(b)where that person has been given the opportunity to supervise the making of the opening.
(5) (a) The Company must not, in the exercise of the powers conferred by this article, damage or interfere with the bed or banks of any watercourse forming part of a main river.
(6) The Company must take such steps as are reasonably practicable to secure that any water discharged into a watercourse or public sewer or drain under the powers conferred by this article is as free as may be practicable from gravel, soil or other solid substance, oil or matter in suspension.
(7) Nothing in this article overrides the requirement for an environmental permit under regulation 12(1)(b) of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010(2).
(8) If a person who receives an application for consent or approval fails to notify the Company of a decision within 28 days of receiving an application for consent under paragraph (3) or approval under paragraph (4)(a) that person is deemed to have granted consent or given approval, as the case may be.
(9) In this article—
(a)“public sewer or drain” means a sewer or drain which belongs to the Environment Agency, a local authority or a sewerage undertaker; and
(b)other expressions, excluding watercourse, used both in this article and in the Water Resources Act 1991(3) have the same meaning as in that Act.
18.—(1) Subject to the following provisions of this article, the Company may at its own expense carry out such protective works to—
(a)any building; or
(b)any road; or
(c)any apparatus of a statutory undertaker
lying within the Order limits as the Company considers to be necessary or expedient.
(2) Protective works may be carried out—
(a)at any time before or during the construction in the vicinity of the building, road or apparatus of any part of the authorised works; or
(b)after the completion of the construction of that part of the authorised works in the vicinity of the building, road or apparatus at any time up to the end of the period of 5 years beginning with the day on which that part of the authorised works is first opened for use.
(3) For the purpose of determining how the functions under this article are to be exercised the Company may (subject to paragraph (5)) enter and survey any building, go onto and survey any road or access and survey any apparatus falling within paragraph (1) and any land within the curtilage of the building or in which the apparatus is located.
(4) For the purpose of carrying out protective works under this article to a building, road or apparatus the Company may (subject to paragraphs (5) and (6))—
(a)enter the building, go onto the road or access the apparatus and any land within the curtilage of the building or in which the apparatus is located; and
(b)where the works cannot be carried out reasonably conveniently without entering land which is adjacent to the building (but outside its curtilage) or adjacent to the road or land in which the apparatus is located, enter the adjacent land (but not any building erected on it).
(5) Before exercising—
(a)a right under paragraph (1) to carry out protective works to a building, road or apparatus;
(b)a right under paragraph (3) to enter a building, go onto a road or access apparatus and land within the curtilage of the building or in which the apparatus is located; and land within its curtilage;
(c)a right under paragraph (4)(a) to enter a building, go onto a road or access apparatus and land within the curtilage of the building or in which the apparatus is located; or
(d)a right under paragraph (4)(b) to enter land,
the Company must, except in the case of emergency, serve on the owners and occupiers of the building or land or the owner of the road or apparatus not less than 14 days’ notice of its intention to exercise that right and, in a case falling within sub-paragraph (a) or (c), specifying the protective works proposed to be carried out.
(6) Where a notice is served under paragraph (5)(a), (c) or (d), the owner or occupier of the building or land or the owner of the road or apparatus concerned may, by serving a counter-notice within the period of 10 days beginning with the day on which the notice was served, require the question whether it is necessary or expedient to carry out the protective works or to enter the building or land to be referred to arbitration under article 50 (arbitration).
(7) The Company must compensate the owners and occupiers of any building or land or the owner of the road or apparatus in relation to which the powers conferred by this article have been exercised for any loss or damage arising to them by reason of the exercise of those powers.
(8) Where—
(a)protective works are carried out under this article to a building, road or apparatus falling within paragraph (1); and
(b)within the period of 5 years beginning with the day on which the part of the authorised works constructed in the vicinity of the building is first opened for use it appears that the protective works are inadequate to protect the building, road or apparatus against damage caused by the construction or operation of that part of the authorised works,
the Company must compensate the owners and occupiers of the building for any loss or damage sustained by them.
(9) Without affecting article 49 (no double recovery) nothing in this article relieves the Company from any liability to pay compensation under section 10(2) of the 1965 Act.
(10) Any compensation payable under paragraph (7) or (8) is to be determined, in case of dispute, under Part 1 of the 1961 Act.
(11) In this article—
“protective works” in relation to a building, road or apparatus means—
underpinning, strengthening and any other works the purpose of which is to prevent damage which may be caused to the building, road or apparatus by the construction, maintenance or operation of the authorised works; and
any works the purpose of which is to remedy any damage which has been caused to the building, road or apparatus by the construction, maintenance or operation of the authorised works; and
“road” includes any structures supporting the road.
19.—(1) The Company may for the purposes of this Order—
(a)survey or investigate any land shown within the Order limits or which may be affected by the authorised works;
(b)without limitation on the scope of sub-paragraph (a), make trial holes in such positions as the Company thinks fit on the land to investigate the nature of the surface layer and subsoil and remove soil samples;
(c)without limitation on the scope of sub-paragraph (a), carry out ecological or archaeological investigations on such land;
(d)place on, leave on and remove from the land apparatus for use in connection with the survey and investigation of land and making of trial holes; and
(e)enter on the land for the purpose of exercising the powers conferred by sub-paragraphs (a) to (d).
(2) In connection with any apparatus which may be placed or left on land under the powers conferred by paragraph (1)(d) of this article, the Company may, subject to payment, connect to and use any electrical supply on the land for the purposes of powering such apparatus.
(3) No land may be entered or equipment placed or left on or removed from the land under paragraph (1), unless at least 7 days’ notice has been served on every owner and occupier of the land.
(4) Any person entering land under this article on behalf of the Company—
(a)must, if so required, before or after entering the land produce written evidence of authority to do so; and
(b)may take onto the land such vehicles and equipment as are necessary to carry out the survey or investigation or to make the trial holes.
(5) No trial holes are to be made under this article—
(a)in a carriageway or footway without the consent of the highway authority; or
(b)in a private street without the consent of the street authority,
but such consent must not be unreasonably withheld.
(6) The Company must compensate the owners and occupiers of the land for any loss or damage arising by reason of the exercise of the powers conferred by this article, such compensation to be determined, in case of dispute, under Part 1 of the 1961 Act.
(7) Nothing in this article overrides the requirement for scheduled monument consent under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979(4).