SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 8PROTECTIVE PROVISIONS

PART 5FOR THE PROTECTION OF NATIONAL HIGHWAYS LIMITED

Maintenance of the specified works

schedule 8 paragraph 51 + 51.—(1) The undertaker must, prior to the commencement of any works of maintenance to the specified works, give National Highways 28 days’ notice in writing of the date on which those works will start unless otherwise agreed by National Highways, acting reasonably.

(2) If, for the purposes of maintaining the specified works, the undertaker needs to occupy any road space, the undertaker must comply with National Highways’ road space booking requirements and no maintenance of the specified works for which a road space booking is required is to commence without a road space booking having first been secured, such road space booking not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed.

(3) The undertaker must comply with any reasonable requirements that National Highways may notify to the undertaker, such requirements to be notified to the undertaker not less than 14 days’ in advance of the planned commencement date of the maintenance works.

(4) The provisions of paragraph 43 (opening) apply to the opening of any part of the strategic road network following occupation of any road space under this paragraph.