PART 5POWERS OF ACQUISITION AND POSSESSION OF LAND

Public rights of way28

1

The public rights of way identified in columns (1) to (3) of Parts 1 and 2 of Schedule 4 (permanent stopping up of highways and private means of access and provision of new highways and private means of access) and shown on the streets, rights of way and access plans are to be extinguished on the date of the expiry of the notice given under paragraph (2).

2

The undertaker must erect a site notice at each end of the rights of way to be extinguished specifying a date for its extinguishment, which date must be—

a

in the case of the public rights of way identified in Part 2 of Schedule 4, no sooner than the date on which the relevant alternative section of public rights of way identified in column (4) of Part 2 of Schedule 4 is open for use by the public: or

b

in any other case, no sooner than 28 days after the date on which the site notices are erected.