SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1AUTHORISED PROJECT

PART 3REQUIREMENTS

Public rights of way

20.—(1) No stage of the authorised project within the onshore Order limits may commence until a public rights of way management plan for the management of public rights of way (excluding the National Trail in the South Downs National Park) located within that stage and which accords with the outline public rights of way management plan has been submitted to and approved in writing by the highway authority following consultation with the relevant planning authority which is to include (where relevant for the stage) a programme for the temporary closure and re‑opening of the public rights of way specified at Schedule 4 (public rights of way), save for the National Trail in the South Downs National Park, comprising—

(a)a plan for the sequencing of construction of the onshore works;

(b)the management of any alternative routes during the temporary closure; and

(c)the re-opening of the public rights of way upon the cessation of that part of the authorised project requiring the temporary closure of those rights of way.

(2) No stage of the authorised project within the onshore Order limits which includes the National Trail in the South Downs National Park is to commence until a public rights of way management plan for the relevant stage has been submitted to and approved in writing by the South Downs National Park Authority a programme for the temporary closure and re-opening of the National Trail within that stage, comprising—

(i)a plan for the sequencing of construction of the onshore works;

(ii)the management of any alternative routes during the temporary closure; and

(iii)the re-opening of the National Trail upon the cessation of that part of the authorised development requiring the temporary closure of the National Trail.

(3) Any public rights of way management plan submitted under sub-paragraph (1) may cover one or more stage of the onshore works.

(4) The public rights of way management plan for each stage must be implemented as approved.

(5) No stage of the onshore works may commence unless the undertaker has provided to the highway authority and the South Downs National Park Authority a rights of way and access land communication management plan, which is to include—

(a)proposals for informing the public of the start and duration of the connection works where public rights of way or the access land described in Schedule 6 (temporary suspension of public access to access land) are affected, including signage; and

(b)details of the proposed diversions and temporary closures to minimise impacts on public rights of way during construction of the connection works,

and the details provided in accordance with this sub-paragraph (5) must be implemented during the construction of the relevant stages of the onshore works to which they relate.