# The Byers Gill Solar Order 2025, Paragraph 32: Apparatus of National Grid Electricity Transmission Plc in stopped up and temporarily closed streets

Extent: E+W

(1) Where any street is stopped up under article 14 (public rights of way), if National Grid Electricity Transmission Plc has any apparatus in the street or accessed via that street National Grid Electricity Transmission Plc has the same rights in respect of that apparatus as it enjoyed immediately before the stopping up and the undertaker must grant to National Grid Electricity Transmission Plc, or procure the granting to National Grid Electricity Transmission Plc of, legal easements reasonably satisfactory to National Grid Electricity Transmission Plc in respect of such apparatus and access to it prior to the stopping up of any such street or highway but nothing in this paragraph affects any right of the undertaker or National Grid Electricity Transmission Plc to require the removal of that apparatus under paragraph 35 (Removal of apparatus) or the power of the undertaker, subject to compliance with this sub-paragraph, to carry out works under paragraph 37 (Retained apparatus: protection of National Grid Electricity Transmission Plc as Electricity Undertaker).
(2) Notwithstanding the temporary closure or diversion of any highway under the powers of article 13 (temporary closure of public rights of way), National Grid Electricity Transmission Plc is at liberty at all times to take all necessary access across any such temporarily closed highway and to execute and do all such works and things in, upon or under any such highway as may be reasonably necessary or desirable to enable it to maintain any apparatus which at the time of the temporary closure or diversion was in that highway.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/934/schedule/11/paragraph/32 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/byers-gill-solar-order-2025/schedule-11/paragraph-32
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