PART 3STREETS

Access to works

13.—(1) The undertaker may, for the purposes of the authorised project—

(a)form, lay out and maintain a means of access, or improve or maintain an existing means of access, in the approximate locations specified in columns (1) and (2) of Schedule 5 (access to works); and

(b)with the approval of the relevant planning authority following consultation with the highway authority form and lay out such other means of access or improve existing means of access, at such locations within the Order limits as the undertaker reasonably requires for the purposes of the authorised project.

(2) If the relevant planning authority fails to notify the undertaker of its decision within 45 days of receiving an application for approval under sub-paragraph (1)(b) that relevant planning authority is deemed to have granted approval.