PART 3STREETS

Accesses

article 17 + 17.—(1) The undertaker may, for the purposes of the authorised development and subject to paragraph (2), with the consent of the relevant highway authority or the relevant street authority as appropriate (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld), form and lay out such means of access (permanent or temporary) or improve existing means of access, at such locations within the Order limits as the undertaker reasonably requires for the purposes of the authorised development.

(2) The agreement of the relevant highway authority or the relevant street authority as appropriate is not required for the formulation, layout or improvement of a new or existing means of access described in Schedule 1 (authorised development) and carried out in accordance with the relevant provisions of Parts 1 and 2 of Schedule 14 (protective provisions).

(3) If a highway authority or street authority which has received an application for consent under paragraph (1) fails to notify the undertaker of its decision before the end of the period of 28 days beginning with the date on which the application was made, it is deemed to have granted consent.

(4) The private means of access as set out in column (2) of Part 1 of Schedule 6 (private means of access to be closed for which no substitute is to be provided) may be closed by the undertaker without a substitute being provided.

(5) The undertaker may provide the private means of access as set out in column (2) of Part 2 of Schedule 6 (new private means of access created).