Article 8 Diversion of riverside footpath

A.B. Ports may permanently stop up and discontinue so much of the riverside footpath as lies between the points marked A and B on the annexed plan and may substitute between the said points respectively a new footpath along the same alignment to be carried for all or part of its length by a footbridge.

Without prejudice to paragraph (4) below, the permanent stopping up of the riverside footpath authorised by paragraph (1) above shall not take place until the new footpath authorised by that paragraph is open for public use.

Upon any such permanent stopping up all rights of way over or along that part of the riverside footpath stopped up shall be extinguished and A.B. Ports may appropriate and use the site and soil thereof so far as it is the owner of the same; and the new footpath and footbridge substituted therefor shall become a public footpath.

A.B. Ports may during the construction of the works temporarily stop up so much of the riverside footpath as lies between the points marked A and C on the annexed plan and shall provide a reasonable temporary substitute in the position shown on the annexed plan between the points marked A, D, E and C throughout the period of such temporary stopping up.

In this article “the riverside footpath” means the public footpath along the river wall on the north bank of the river Humber in the City of Kingston upon Hull.