# The Gatwick Airport (Northern Runway Project) Development Consent Order 2025, Paragraph 79: Apparatus in stopped up streets and public rights of way

Extent: E+W

(1) Where any street is stopped up under article 13 (stopping up of streets) or any public right of way is stopped up under article 15 (public rights of way – creation, diversion and stopping up), TWUL has the same powers and rights in respect of any apparatus in the land in which the street or public right of way subsists as it enjoyed immediately before the stopping up and the undertaker must grant to TWUL legal easements reasonably satisfactory to TWUL in respect of such apparatus and access to it, but nothing in this paragraph affects any right of the undertaker or of TWUL to require the removal of that apparatus under paragraph 82 (removal of apparatus) or the power of the undertaker to carry out works under paragraph 84 (retained apparatus).
(2) Regardless of the temporary alteration, diversion or restriction of any street under the powers conferred by article 14 (temporary stopping up of streets), TWUL is at liberty at all times to take all necessary access across any such stopped up street and to execute and do all such works and things in, upon or under any such street as may be reasonably necessary or desirable to enable it to maintain any apparatus which at the time of the stopping up or diversion was in that street.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1054/schedule/9/paragraph/79 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/gatwick-airport-northern-runway-project-development-consent-order-2025/schedule-9/paragraph-79
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