The A1 Birtley to Coal House Development Consent Order 2021

42.—(1) Where any street is stopped up under article 16 (permanent stopping up and restriction of use of streets, public rights of way and private means of access), if Northumbrian Water has any apparatus in the street, Northumbrian Water is entitled to the same powers and rights in respect of that apparatus as it enjoyed immediately before the stopping up and the undertaker must grant to Northumbrian Water legal easements reasonably satisfactory to Northumbrian Water in respect of such apparatus and access to it, but nothing in this paragraph affects any right of the undertaker or of Northumbrian Water to require the removal of that apparatus under paragraph 44 or the power of the undertaker to carry out works under paragraph 46.

(2) Regardless of the temporary stopping up or diversion of any highway under the powers conferred by article 15 (temporary stopping up and restriction of use of streets), Northumbrian Water 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 or desirable to enable it to maintain any apparatus which at the time of the stopping up or diversion was in that highway.