Article 14 Permanent stopping up of streets

(1)

Subject to the provisions of this article, the undertaker may, in connection with the construction of the authorised development, stop up the streets specified in column (1) of Schedule 6 (permanent stopping up of streets and public rights of way) to the extent specified and as described in column (2) of that Schedule.

(2)

Where a street has been stopped up under this article—

(a)

all rights of way over or along the street so stopped up are extinguished; and

(b)

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.

(3)

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, under Part 1 (determination of questions of disputed compensation) of the 1961 Act.

(4)

This article is subject to article 36 (apparatus and rights of statutory undertakers in stopped up streets).