PART 3STREETS
Temporary stopping up of streets
article 12 12.—(1) Subject to paragraph (4), the undertaker may, during and for the purposes of carrying out the authorised development, temporarily stop up, alter or divert any street and may for any reasonable time—
article 12 1 a (a)divert the traffic or a class of traffic from the street; and
article 12 1 b (b)subject to paragraph (3), prevent all persons from passing along the street.
(2) Without limiting paragraph (1), the undertaker may use any street temporarily stopped up under the powers conferred by this article within the Order limits—
article 12 2 a (a)as a temporary working site;
article 12 2 b (b)to construct the authorised development; and
article 12 2 c (c)for access.
(3) The undertaker 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) The undertaker must not temporarily stop up, alter or divert or use as a temporary working site any street referred to in paragraph (1) without the consent of the relevant street authority, which may attach reasonable conditions to the consent and the undertaker must with the request for consent from the street authority notify the street authority of the provisions of paragraph (5).
(5) If a relevant street authority fails to notify the undertaker of its decision within 28 days of receiving an application for consent under paragraph (4) that street authority is deemed to have granted consent.
(6) Without limiting paragraph (1), the undertaker may temporarily stop up, alter or divert the streets set out in column (2) of Schedule 5 (streets to be temporarily stopped up) to the extent specified, by reference to the letters and numbers shown on the access and traffic regulation order plans in column (3) of that Schedule.
(7) Any person who suffers loss by the suspension of any public 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 (determination of questions of disputed compensation) of the 1961 Act.