The National Grid (Yorkshire Green Energy Enablement Project) Development Consent Order 2024

Survey of waterway

15.—(1) Before the initial construction or, to the extent that it would affect the waterway or any function of the Trust, maintenance of any part of the specified work and again following practical completion of the specified work the undertaker must bear the reasonable and proper cost of the carrying out by a qualified engineer (the “surveyor”), to be approved by the Trust and the undertaker (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld), of a survey (“the survey”) of so much of the waterway and of any land and existing works of the undertaker which may provide support for the waterway as will or may be affected by the specified work.

(2) For the purposes of the survey the undertaker must—

(a) on being given reasonable notice (save in case of emergency, when immediate access must be afforded) afford reasonable facilities to the surveyor for access to the site of the specified work and to any land and existing works of the undertaker which may provide support for the waterway as will or may be affected by the specified work; and

(b) supply the surveyor as soon as reasonably practicable with all such information as he may reasonably require and which the undertaker holds with regard to such existing works of the undertaker and to the specified work or the method of their construction.

(3) Copies of the survey must be provided to both the Trust and the undertaker at no cost to the Trust.

(4) The surveyor must undertake the survey required under sub-paragraph (1) in a timely manner so as to cause no unreasonable delay to the initial construction or, to the extent that it would affect the waterway or any function of the Trust, maintenance of any part of the specified work.