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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/green-hill-solar-farm-order-2026/schedule-15/paragraph-65",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/1074",
  "legislation_title": "The Green Hill Solar Farm Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/green-hill-solar-farm-order-2026",
  "path": "schedule/15/paragraph/65",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "65",
  "heading": "Construction of the cable works and road works",
  "text": "(1) The undertaker must give National Highways 3 months’ notice in writing of the date on which the cable works and/or road works will start unless otherwise agreed by National Highways.\n(2) The undertaker must comply with National Highways’ road space booking procedures when booking road space on the strategic road network prior to and during the carrying out the road works or cable works (as applicable) and no road works or cable works for which a road space booking is required may commence without a road space booking having first been secured from National Highways.\n(3) The cable works and road works must be carried out by the undertaker to the satisfaction of National Highways in accordance with—\n(a) the relevant detailed design information and programme of works approved pursuant to paragraph 64(1) or 64(2) above or as subsequently varied by agreement between the undertaker and National Highways;\n(b) the DMRB, the Manual of Contract Documents for Highway Works, including the Specification for Highway Works, together with all other relevant standards as required by National Highways to include, inter alia; all relevant interim advice notes, the Traffic Signs Manual and the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016 save to the extent that exceptions from those standards apply which have been approved by National Highways; and\n(c) all aspects of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (“the CDM Regulations”) or any statutory amendment or variation of the same, and the undertaker will be the client and must ensure that all client duties (as defined in the CDM Regulations) are undertaken to the satisfaction of National Highways. No approval or consent issued by National Highways shall be taken to be a consent or approval pursuant to the CDM Regulations.\n(4) The undertaker must ensure that, where practicable and without entering the highway, the highway is kept free from mud, soil and litter as a result of carrying out a road work or cable work.\n(5) The undertaker must permit and must require the contractor to permit at all reasonable times persons authorised by National Highways (whose identity must have been previously notified to the undertaker by National Highways) to gain reasonable access to the cable works and road works for the purposes of inspection and supervision of those works, and to gain reasonable access to land in which National Highways has an interest where access is affected by the cable works or road works or the exercise of the powers in this Order.\n(6) If any part of the cable works or road works is constructed—\n(a) other than in accordance with the requirements of this Part of this Schedule; or\n(b) in a way that causes damage to the highway, highway structure or asset or any other land of National Highways,\nNational Highways may by notice in writing require the undertaker, at the undertaker’s own expense, to comply promptly with the requirements of this Part of this Schedule or remedy any damage notified to the undertaker under this Part of this Schedule, to the satisfaction of National Highways.\n(7) If during the carrying out of the authorised development the undertaker or its appointed contractors or agents causes damage to the strategic road network then National Highways may by notice in writing require the undertaker, at its own expense, to remedy the damage.\n(8) If, within 28 days from the day on which a notice under sub-paragraph (6) or (7) is served on the undertaker (or, in the event of there being, in the opinion of National Highways, a danger to road users, within such lesser period as National Highways may stipulate in the notice), the undertaker has failed to take the steps required by that notice, National Highways may carry out the steps required of the undertaker by that notice and may recover from the undertaker any expenditure reasonably incurred by National Highways in so doing, such sum to be payable within 28 days of written demand.\n(9) Nothing in this Part of this Schedule prevents National Highways from carrying out any work or taking any such action as it reasonably believes to be necessary as a result of or in connection with the carrying out or maintenance of the authorised development without prior notice to the undertaker in the event of an emergency or to prevent the occurrence of danger to the public and National Highways may recover any expenditure it reasonably incurs in so doing\n(10) In constructing the cable works and road works, the undertaker must at its own expense divert or protect all utilities and all agreed alterations and reinstatement of highway over existing utilities must be constructed to the satisfaction of National Highways.\n(11) Until such time that National Highways issues the road works provisional certificate, the undertaker must carry out all maintenance (including winter maintenance) in accordance with the scope of maintenance operations agreed by National Highways pursuant to paragraph 64(1)(h) and the undertaker must carry out such maintenance at its own cost.\n(12) The undertaker must notify National Highways if it fails to complete the road works or cable works in accordance with the agreed programme pursuant to paragraph 64(1)(b) and 64(2)(a) of this Part or suspends the carrying out of any road work or cable work beyond a reasonable period of time and National Highways reserves the right to withdraw any road space booking granted to the undertaker to ensure compliance with its network occupancy requirements.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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