PART 5ACQUISITION AND POSSESSION OF LAND
Rights under or over streets
article 43 43.—(1) The undertaker may enter onto and use so much of the subsoil of, or air-space over, any street within the Order limits as may be required for the purposes of the authorised development and may use the subsoil or air-space for those purposes.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the undertaker may exercise any power conferred by paragraph (1) in relation to a street without being required to acquire any part of the street or any easement or right in the street.
(3) Paragraph (2) does not apply in relation to—
article 43 3 a (a)any subway, tunnel or underground building; or
article 43 3 b (b)any cellar, vault, arch, projection, or other construction in, on or under a street which forms part of a building fronting onto the street.
(4) Subject to paragraph (5), any person who is an owner or occupier of land which is entered onto and used under paragraph (1) without the undertaker acquiring any part of that person’s interest in the land, and who suffers loss as a result, 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.
(5) Compensation is not payable under paragraph (4) to any person who is an undertaker to whom section 85 (sharing cost of necessary measures) of the 1991 Act applies in respect of measures of which the allowable costs are to be borne in accordance with that section.
(6) The undertaker must as soon as reasonably practicable and in any case no later than 14 days before entering the subsoil or airspace, serve notice of the use under this article, on the owner and or occupier of the subsoil or airspace proposed to be used, and such notice must be accompanied by plans showing in sufficient detail the subsoil and airspace to be used under this article and upon written request the undertaker will supply a copy of such notice and plans to the local authority and (if different) the local highway authority.
(7) If at any time following the use pursuant to paragraph (1) the subsoil or airspace is no longer required to be used under this article for the purposes of the authorised development—
article 43 7 a (a)the undertaker will serve notice on the owner that the subsoil or airspace is no longer required;
article 43 7 b (b)upon service of notice to the owner the right of the undertaker to use the subsoil or airspace given by paragraphs (1) and (2) will cease; and
article 43 7 c (c)the undertaker (or if different the owner for the time being of the part of the authorised development occupying the subsoil or airspace) will within a reasonable time following the written request of the owner to do so, remove its equipment from the subsoil or airspace and restore the subsoil or airspace to the reasonable satisfaction of the owner and deliver up vacant possession of it.