SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2REQUIREMENTS

PART 1REQUIREMENTS

Passive provision for Tilbury link road

17.—(1) The undertaker must undertake the detailed design of Works Nos. 5D, 5E and 5F in a manner that reasonably facilitates and accommodates a connection to the proposed Tilbury link road to the extent the route and design of proposed Tilbury link road is available prior to and up to the date of the submission of the final iteration of the detailed design of the tunnel area north of the river Thames to the design review panel pursuant to clause PRO.01 of the design principles.

(2) Works Nos. 5D, 5E and 5F must be designed in detail and constructed by the undertaker so as to reasonably accommodate a connection with the proposed Tilbury link road in compliance with DMRB in order to reasonably accommodate a connection with the proposed Tilbury link road.

(3) In this paragraph, “the proposed Tilbury link road” means a proposal which includes a road connection or junction onto the A122 from Tilbury which is—

(a)reflected in a preferred route announcement by the Secretary of State;

(b)the subject of a request for a scoping opinion, or an equivalent request made pursuant to regulations made pursuant to Part 6 of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023(1), submitted to Thurrock Council under regulation 15 of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017(2), or an application to the Secretary of State under regulation 10 of the Infrastructure Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017(3), whether the road forms the whole or part of the subject of the request for a scoping opinion (unless the Secretary of State directs the undertaker not to consider such a proposal as the proposed Tilbury link road);

(c)included in a local plan adopted by the relevant planning authority under regulation 26 of The Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012(4); or

(d)in the absence of (a) to (c), such other proposal as is reasonably considered by the undertaker to constitute the likely route and function of that link road.