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17.—(1) Network Rail may carry out any works in so much of Station Road as is within the Order limits in the manner specified in the highways planning permission.
(2) Network Rail must restore to the reasonable satisfaction of the street authority any street which has been temporarily altered under this article.
18.—(1) Network Rail may, for the purposes of the authorised works, enter upon so much of Station Road as is within the Order limits and may—
(a)break up or open the street, or any sewer, drain or tunnel under it, or tunnel or bore under the street;
(b)place apparatus in the street;
(c)maintain apparatus in the street or change its position; and
(d)execute any works required for or incidental to any works referred to in sub-paragraphs (a), (b) and (c).
(2) In this article “apparatus” has the same meaning as in Part 3 of the 1991 Act and includes any street furniture.
19.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this article, Network Rail may, in connection with the carrying out of the authorised works, stop up the street specified in columns (1) and (2) of Schedule 3 (street to be stopped up) to the extent specified in column (3) of that Schedule.
(2) Where a street has been stopped up under this article—
(a)all rights of way over or along the street so stopped up are extinguished; and
(b)Network Rail may appropriate and use for the purpose of its railway undertaking so much of the site of the street as is bounded on both sides by land owned by Network Rail.
(3) Any person who suffers loss by the suspension or extinguishment of any private right of way under this article is entitled to compensation to be determined, in case of dispute, as if it were a dispute under Part 1 of the 1961 Act.
(4) This article is subject to paragraph 2 of Schedule 6 (provisions relating to statutory undertakers, etc.) to this Order.
20.—(1) Network Rail may during and for the purposes of the execution of the authorised works, temporarily stop up, alter or divert 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 limitation on the scope of paragraph (1), Network Rail may use any street stopped up under the powers conferred by this article within the Order limits as a temporary working site.
(3) Network Rail must provide reasonable access for pedestrians going to or from premises abutting a street affected by the temporary stopping up, alteration or diversion of a street under this article if there would otherwise be no such access.
(4) Without limitation on the scope of paragraph (1), Network Rail may exercise the powers conferred by this article in relation to the streets specified in columns (1) and (2) of Schedule 4 (streets to be temporarily stopped up) to the extent specified in column (3) of that Schedule.
(5) Network Rail must not exercise the powers conferred by this article—
(a)in relation to any street specified as mentioned in paragraph (4) without first consulting the street authority; and
(b)in relation to any other street without the consent of the street authority which may attach reasonable conditions to any consent, but such consent must not be unreasonably withheld.
(6) Any person who suffers loss by the suspension of any private right of way under this article is entitled to compensation to be determined, in case of dispute, as if it were a dispute under Part 1 of the 1961 Act.
(7) If within 28 days of receiving an application for consent under paragraph (5)(b) a street authority fails to notify Network Rail of its decision or refuses consent without giving any grounds for its refusal that street authority is deemed to have granted consent.
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