Article 17 Permanent stopping up of streets and private means of accessI1
England, Wales and Scotland As made
Subject to the provisions of this article, the undertaker may, in connection with the carrying out of the authorised development, stop up each of the streets specified in column (1) of Parts 1 and 2 of F1Schedule 3 (permanent stopping up of highways and private means of access & provision of new highways and private means of access) to the extent specified and described in column (2) of that Schedule.
No street specified in column (1) of Parts 1 and 2 of Schedule 3 is to be wholly or partly stopped up under this article unless—
the new street to be constructed and substituted for it, which is specified in column (3) of those Parts of that Schedule, is open for use and been completed to the reasonable satisfaction of the street authority; or
a temporary alternative route for the passage of such traffic as could have used the street to be stopped up is first provided and is subsequently maintained by the undertaker, to the reasonable satisfaction of the street authority, between the commencement and termination points for the stopping up of the street until the completion and opening of the new street in accordance with sub-paragraph (a).
Where a street has been stopped up under this article—
all rights of way over or along the street so stopped up are extinguished; and
the undertaker may appropriate and use for the purposes of the authorised development so much of the site of the street as is bounded on both sides by land owned by the undertaker.
Any person who suffers loss by the suspension or extinguishment of any private right of way under this article 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.
This article is subject to article 42 (apparatus and rights of statutory undertakers in stopped up streets).
Annotations
Textual amendments
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Words in art. 17(1) substituted (27.5.2026) by The A46 Coventry Junctions (Walsgrave) Development Consent (Correction) Order 2026 (S.I. 2026/556), art. 1, Sch.
Commencement
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Art. 17 in force at 25.2.2026, see art. 1