The Crossrail (Plumstead Sidings) Order 2015

Power to construct and maintain works

3.—(1) The promoter may construct and maintain or, insofar as those works are already in existence, retain and maintain the scheduled works.

(2) Subject to article 4 (power to deviate), the scheduled works may only be constructed in the lines or situations shown on the works and land plans, and in accordance with the levels shown on the sections.

(3) Subject to paragraph (5), the promoter may, for the purposes of or in connection with the scheduled works or otherwise for the purposes of, or in connection with, Crossrail, carry out and maintain, or insofar as they are already in existence, retain and maintain any of the following—

(a) railway electrification and signalling works;

(b) all such bridges, ramps, means of access, approaches, buildings, yards, apparatus, plant and machinery as may be necessary or convenient;

(c) all such embankments, aprons, abutments, retaining walls, wing walls, drainage and culverts as may be necessary or convenient;

(d) works to alter, or alter the position of, apparatus, including mains, sewers, drains and cables;

(e) works to alter the course of, or otherwise interfere with, a watercourse other than a navigable watercourse;

(f) junctions and communications with any highway or access way intersected or interfered with by, or contiguous to, any of those works, and widen or alter any highway or access way for the purpose of connecting it with any of those works or another highway, or of crossing under or over the highway or access way;

(g) landscaping, and other permanent mitigation works to mitigate any adverse effects of the construction, maintenance or operation of the scheduled works;

(h) all such drains and connections to mains drainage systems as may be necessary or convenient; and

(i) works for the benefit or protection of premises affected by the scheduled works.

(4) Subject to paragraph (5), the promoter may carry out such other works (of whatever nature) as may be necessary or expedient for the purposes of, or for purposes ancillary to, the construction of the authorised works, other than works that would interfere with a navigable watercourse.

(5) The works specified in paragraphs (3) and (4) may only be carried out within the limits of deviation.