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Schedule 8 Land in which only new rights etc. may be acquiredI1F1

England and Wales

In the County of Conwy:

(1)

Number of plot shown on land plan (onshore)

(2)

Purpose for which rights may be acquired

02-033; 03-037; 03-045; 03-047; 03-049; 03-050; 03-060; 03-062; 03-063; 04-067; 04-070; 04-074; 04-078; 05-080; 05-083; 05-084; 05-087; 05-088; 05-091; 05-093; 06-097; 06-100; 06-106a; 06-103; 06-105; 06-106; 06-108; 07-109; 07-111; 07-117; 07-120; 07-125; 07-127; 07-129; 07-133; 08-136; 08-146

Cable rights and restrictive covenants

1.Cable rights

Rights for the purposes of the construction, installation, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of the authorised project to—

  1. (a)

    lay down, install, test, retain, adjust, alter, construct, operate, erect, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, remove and replace the electricity cables (including the removal of materials including spoil) in, under, over and/or on the land, together with such telemetry and fibre-optic lines, ducting, jointing bays and other apparatus, protection measures, cable marker posts, chambers and manholes, manhole covers, cable clamping and other equipment which is ancillary to the purposes of transmitting electricity along such electricity cables (the “cables”), and in doing so, to use or resort to open cut trenching or trenchless installation techniques including (but not limited to) directional drilling;

  2. (b)

    enter, be on, and break open and break up the surface of the land, restore and remain with or without plant, vehicles, machinery, apparatus and equipment which is ancillary to the purposes of transmitting electricity along the cables;

  3. (c)

    to benefit from continuous vertical and lateral support for the authorised project;

  4. (d)

    pass and re-pass with or without vehicles, plant, machinery, apparatus, equipment and materials for the purposes of laying down, installing, adjusting, altering, constructing, using, maintaining, repairing, renewing, inspecting, removing, testing, upgrading and replacing the cables and connection into any adjacent cables and associated works, to take plant and equipment on to adjoining land;

  5. (e)

    construct and install the cables and thereafter use the land for all necessary purposes for the construction, commissioning, testing, repair and maintenance of the cables in, on or under the land;

  6. (f)

    place and use plant, machinery, structures and temporary structures within the land for the purposes of the installation, construction, maintenance, repairing, renewing, upgrading, inspecting, removal, testing and replacing of the cables and to erect temporary signage and provide measures for the benefit of public and personnel safety;

  7. (g)

    erect fencing, gates, walls, barriers or other means of enclosure, and create secure working areas and compounds including trenchless installation technique compounds and working areas;

  8. (h)

    construct, lay down, use and remove temporary access roads including any necessary hard standing and other surface materials including (but not limited to) matting, aggregate, trackway, stone, tarmacadam, terram, temporary bridging, culverting or diversion of water courses and drains during any period during which construction, maintenance, repair or renewal is being carried out;

  9. (i)

    effect access to the highway including creation of temporary visibility splays;

  10. (j)

    make such investigations in or on the land as are required;

  11. (k)

    fell, lop, cut or remove or coppice wood, uproot trees or hedges or shrubs which now or hereafter may be standing on the land or other land which would if not felled, lopped, cut or removed would obstruct or interfere with the installation and operation of the cables;

  12. (l)

    remove and discharge water from the land, and to install, retain, use, maintain, inspect, alter, remove, refurbish, reconstruct, replace, protect and improve sewers, drains, pipes, ducts, mains, conduits, flues and to drain into and manage waterflows in any drains, watercourses and culverts, install, use, inspect, maintain, adjust, alter, renew, repair, test or cleanse drainage schemes on the land or reinstate any existing drainage scheme on the land;

  13. (m)

    install, alter, re-lay, maintain, protect, adjust or remove pipes, cables or conduits or apparatus including but not limited to electricity poles, electricity pylons, electricity masts, overhead electricity lines, telecommunications cables and any ancillary equipment and apparatus, public and private drains, watercourses, sewers, ponds or culverts, service media (including the pipes, cables or conduits or apparatus of statutory undertakers);

  14. (n)

    remove fences and structures within the land during any period in which construction, maintenance, repair or renewal is being carried out (subject to erection of any temporary stock-proof fencing as is reasonably required and the re-instatement or suitable replacement of the fences or structures following the exercise of the rights);

  15. (o)

    store and stockpile materials (including excavated material);

  16. (p)

    create boreholes and trial excavation pits for the purposes of intrusively surveying the land and monitoring the use of any trenchless installation technique, to keep in place and monitor the same through construction, maintenance, repair, replacement or decommissioning and reinstatement of the land;

  17. (q)

    to excavate materials below ground level, including soils, and to store and re-use or dispose of the same, and in so excavating to undertake any works, including works of protection or removal of archaeological remains as may be required by any written scheme of investigation approved under this Order;

  18. (r)

    lay out temporary paths and bridleways for public use as temporary diversions for public rights of way which are interfered with during any period in which construction, maintenance, repair, renewal or decommissioning is being carried out;

  19. (s)

    to install, execute, implement, retain, repair, improve, renew, relocate, maintain and carry out mitigation, maintenance, and remediation works for environmental or ecological mitigation or enhancement works, including temporary works for noise alleviation measures and the installation of temporary barriers for the protection of fauna;

  20. (t)

    carry out such works (together with associated fencing) required by a planning permission and/or consent now or to be granted over the land and/or in accordance with any necessary licences relating to protected species and/or wildlife;

  21. (u)

    (in an emergency only when the cables are temporarily unusable) to lay down, install, use, maintain and inspect replacement underground cables, telephone signalling and fibre-optic cables and ancillary equipment, associated works and other conducting media together with conduits or pipes for containing the same in and under the land;

  22. (v)

    to construct, use, maintain and improve a permanent means of access including visibility splays, and retain, maintain, straighten, widen, repair, alter, upgrade and use existing access routes for the purposes of accessing the land, adjoining land and the highway; and

  23. (w)

    erect temporary bridges and supporting or protective structures for the purposes of access to adjoining land.

2. Restrictive covenants

A restrictive covenant over the land for the benefit of the remainder of the Order land to:

(a)

prevent anything being done in or upon the land or any part thereof for the purpose of the erection of any buildings or construction, erection or works of any kind (including the foundations or footings thereto);

(b)

prevent anything being done by way of hard surfacing of the land with concrete of any kind or with any other material or surface whatsoever without the consent in writing of the undertaker (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed if the proposed surfacing would not cause damage to relevant part of the authorised project nor make it materially more difficult or expensive to maintain the authorised project);

(c)

to prevent anything to be done by way of excavation of any kind in the land or any activities which would alter, increase or decrease ground cover or soil levels in any manner whatsoever save as are reasonably required for agricultural activities (being ploughing to no deeper than 0.6 metres for the purposes of arable farming) or are required to be carried out by any statutory undertaker in order to exercise their statutory functions or rights in relation to their apparatus (if any) within the land without the consent in writing of the undertaker;

(d)

to prevent the planting or growing within the land of any trees, shrubs or underwood without the consent in writing of the undertaker (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed provided that the proposed trees, shrubs or underwood would not cause damage to the relevant part of the authorised project nor make it materially more difficult or expensive to access and maintain the relevant part of the authorised project);

(e)

to prevent anything being done which may interfere with free flow and passage of electricity or telecommunications through the cables or support for the authorised project;

(f)

to prevent the carrying out of operations or actions (including but not limited to blasting and piling) which may obstruct, interrupt, or interfere with the exercise of the rights or damage the authorised project; and

(g)

to prevent any activity which would in the reasonable opinion of the undertaker result in the disturbance of ecological mitigation areas or areas of habitat creation or enhancement including any ploughing or grazing without the prior written consent of the undertaker.

02-012; 02-021; 02-021a; 02-022; 02-023; 02-024; 02-025; 02-026; 02-027; 02-028; 02-029; 02-031; 02-034; 02-035; 02-036; 03-061; 04-065; 04-073; 05-082; 06-096; 06-098; 06-101; 07-110; 07-126; 08-135; 08-140

Cable rights under existing infrastructure and restrictive covenants

1. Cable rights under existing infrastructure

Rights for the purposes of the construction, installation, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of the authorised project to—

  1. (a)

    lay down, install, retain, adjust, alter, construct, operate, erect, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, remove and replace the electricity cables (including the removal of materials including spoil) in or under the land, together with such telemetry and fibre-optic lines, ducting, jointing bays and other apparatus, protection measures, cable marker posts, chambers and manholes, manhole covers, cable clamping and other equipment which is ancillary to the purposes of transmitting electricity along such electricity cables (the “cables”), and in doing so, to use or resort to trenchless installation techniques including (but not limited to) directional drilling;

  2. (b)

    enter, be on, and remain on the land with or without plant, vehicles, machinery, apparatus and equipment which is ancillary to the purposes of transmitting electricity along the cables;

  3. (c)

    to benefit from continuous vertical and lateral support for the authorised project;

  4. (d)

    pass and re-pass with or without vehicles, plant, machinery, apparatus, equipment and materials for the purposes of laying down, installing, adjusting, altering, constructing, using, maintaining, repairing, renewing, inspecting, removing, testing, upgrading and replacing the cables and connection into any adjacent cables and associated works, to take plant and equipment on to adjoining land;

  5. (e)

    construct and install the cables and thereafter use the land for all necessary purposes for the construction, commissioning, testing, repair and maintenance of the cables in or under the land;

  6. (f)

    place and use plant, machinery, structures and temporary structures within the land for the purposes of the installation, construction, maintenance, repairing, renewing, upgrading, inspecting, removal and replacing of the cables and to erect temporary signage and provide measures for the benefit of public and personnel safety;

  7. (g)

    erect fencing, gates, walls, barriers or other means of enclosure, and create secure working areas and compounds including trenchless installation technique compounds and working areas;

  8. (h)

    construct, lay down, use and remove temporary access roads including any necessary hard standing and other surface materials including (but not limited to) matting, aggregate, trackway, stone, tarmacadam, terram, temporary bridging, culverting or diversion of water courses and drains during any period during which construction, maintenance, repair or renewal is being carried out;

  9. (i)

    effect access to the highway including creation of temporary visibility splays;

  10. (j)

    make such investigations in or on the land as are required;

  11. (k)

    fell, lop, cut or remove or coppice wood, uproot trees or hedges or shrubs which now or hereafter may be standing on the land or other land which would if not felled, lopped, cut or removed would obstruct or interfere with the installation or operation of the cables;

  12. (l)

    remove and discharge water from the land, and to install, retain, use, maintain, inspect, alter, remove, refurbish, reconstruct, replace, protect and improve sewers, drains, pipes, ducts, mains, conduits, flues and to drain into and manage waterflows in any drains, watercourses and culverts, install, use, inspect, maintain, adjust, alter, renew, repair, test or cleanse drainage schemes on the land or reinstate any existing drainage scheme on the land;

  13. (m)

    install, alter, re-lay, maintain, protect, adjust or remove pipes, cables or conduits or apparatus including but not limited to electricity poles, electricity pylons, electricity masts, overhead electricity lines, telecommunications cables and any ancillary equipment and apparatus public and private drains, watercourses, sewers, ponds or culverts, service media (including the pipes, cables or conduits or apparatus of statutory undertakers);

  14. (n)

    remove fences and structures within the land during any period during which construction, maintenance, repair or renewal is being carried out (subject to erection of any temporary stock-proof fencing as is reasonably required and the re-instatement or suitable replacement of the fences or structures following the exercise of the rights);

  15. (o)

    store and stockpile materials (including excavated material);

  16. (p)

    create boreholes and trial excavation pits for the purposes of intrusively surveying the land and monitoring the use of any trenchless installation technique, to keep in place and monitor the same through construction, maintenance repair, replacement or decommissioning and to reinstate the land;

  17. (q)

    to excavate materials below ground level, including soils, and to store and re-use or dispose of the same, and in so excavating to undertake any works, including works of protection or removal of archaeological remains as may be required by any written scheme of investigation approved under this Order;

  18. (r)

    lay out temporary paths and bridleways for public use as temporary diversions for public rights of way which are interfered with during any period in which construction, maintenance, repair or renewal or decommissioning is being carried out;

  19. (s)

    to install, execute, implement, retain, repair, improve, renew, relocate, maintain and carry out mitigation, maintenance and remediation works for environmental or ecological mitigation or enhancement works, including temporary works for noise alleviation measures and the installation of temporary barriers for the protection of fauna;

  20. (t)

    carry out such works (together with associated fencing) required by a planning permission and/or consent now or to be granted over the land and/or in accordance with any necessary licences relating to protected species and/or wildlife;

  21. (u)

    (in an emergency only when the cables are temporarily unusable) to lay down, install, use, maintain and inspect replacement underground cables, telephone signalling and fibre-optic cables and ancillary equipment, associated works and other conducting media together with conduits or pipes for containing the same in and under the land;

  22. (v)

    to construct, use, maintain and improve a permanent means of access including visibility splays, and retain, maintain, straighten, widen, repair, alter, upgrade and use existing access routes for the purposes of accessing the land, adjoining land and the highway; and

  23. (w)

    erect temporary bridges and supporting or protective structures for the purposes of access to adjoining land.

2. Restrictive covenants

A restrictive covenant over the land for the benefit of the remainder of the Order land to:

(a)

prevent anything being done in or upon the land or any part thereof for the purpose of the erection of any buildings or construction, erection or works of any kind (including the foundations or footings thereto) other than those related to works for the benefit of existing highway or railway infrastructure;

(b)

to prevent anything to be done by way of excavation of any kind in the land nor any activities which would alter, increase or decrease ground cover or soil levels by greater than one metre whatsoever without the consent in writing of the undertaker, save where such works are reasonably required for the exercise of statutory functions or rights in relation any public highway or railway on the land and will not damage, undermine or interfere with the cables;

(c)

to prevent the planting or growing within the land of any trees, shrubs or underwood without the consent in writing of the undertaker (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed provided that the proposed trees, shrubs or underwood would not cause damage to the relevant part of the authorised project nor make it materially more difficult or expensive to access and maintain the relevant part of the authorised project);

(d)

to prevent anything being done which may interfere with free flow and passage of electricity or telecommunications through the cables or support for the authorised project; and

(e)

to prevent the carrying out of operations or actions (including but not limited to blasting and piling) which may obstruct, interrupt, or interfere with the exercise of the rights or damage the authorised project.

02-032

Cable rights, transition joint bay rights and restrictive covenants

1. Cable rights

Rights for the purposes of the construction, installation, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of the authorised project to—

  1. (a)

    lay down, install, retain, adjust, alter, construct, operate, erect, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, remove and replace the electricity cables (including the removal of materials including spoil) in, under, over and/or on the land, together with such telemetry and fibre-optic lines, ducting, jointing bays and other apparatus, protection measures, cable marker posts, chambers and manholes, manhole covers, cable clamping and other equipment which is ancillary to the purposes of transmitting electricity along such electricity cables (the “cables”), and in doing so, to use or resort to trenchless installation techniques including (but not limited to) directional drilling;

  2. (b)

    enter, be on, and break open and break up the surface of the land and remain with or without plant, vehicles, machinery, apparatus and equipment which is ancillary to the purposes of transmitting electricity along the cables;

  3. (c)

    to benefit from continuous vertical and lateral support for the authorised project;

  4. (d)

    pass and re-pass with or without vehicles, plant, machinery, apparatus, equipment and materials for the purposes of laying down, installing, adjusting, altering, constructing, using, maintaining, repairing, renewing, inspecting, removing and replacing the cables;

  5. (e)

    construct and install the cables and thereafter use the land for all necessary purposes for the construction, commissioning, testing, repair and maintenance of the cables in, on or under the land;

  6. (f)

    place and use plant, machinery, structures and temporary structures within the land for the purposes of the installation, construction, maintenance, repairing, renewing, upgrading, inspecting, removal and replacing of the cables and to erect temporary signage and provide measures for the benefit of public and personnel safety;

  7. (g)

    erect fencing, gates, walls, barriers or other means of enclosure, and create secure working areas and compounds including trenchless installation technique compounds and working areas;

  8. (h)

    construct, lay down, use and remove temporary access roads including any necessary hard standing and other surface materials including (but not limited to) matting, aggregate, trackway, stone, tarmacadam, terram, temporary bridging, culverting or diversion of water courses and drains during any period during which construction, maintenance, repair or renewal or decommissioning is being carried out;

  9. (i)

    effect access to the highway including creation of temporary visibility splays;

  10. (j)

    make such investigations in or on the land as are required;

  11. (k)

    fell, lop, cut or remove or coppice wood, uproot trees or hedges or shrubs which now or hereafter may be standing on the land or other land which would if not felled, lopped, cut or removed would obstruct or interfere with the installation and operation of the cables;

  12. (l)

    remove and discharge water from the land, and to install, retain, use, maintain, inspect, alter, remove, refurbish, reconstruct, replace, protect and improve sewers, drains, pipes, ducts, mains, conduits, flues and to drain into and manage waterflows in any drains, watercourses and culverts, install, use, inspect, maintain, adjust, alter, renew, repair, test or cleanse drainage schemes on the land or reinstate any existing drainage scheme on the land;

  13. (m)

    install, alter, re-lay, maintain, protect, adjust or remove pipes, cables or conduits or apparatus including but not limited to electricity poles, electricity pylons, electricity masts, overhead electricity lines, telecommunications cables and any ancillary equipment and apparatus, public and private drains, watercourses, sewers, ponds or culverts, service media (including the pipes, cables or conduits or apparatus of statutory undertakers);

  14. (n)

    remove fences and structures within the land during any period in which construction, maintenance, repair or renewal is being carried out (subject to erection of any temporary stock-proof fencing as is reasonably required and the re-instatement or suitable replacement of the fences or structures following the exercise of the rights);

  15. (o)

    store and stockpile materials (including excavated material);

  16. (p)

    create boreholes and trial excavation pits for the purposes of intrusively surveying the land and monitoring the use of any trenchless installation technique, to keep in place and monitor the same through construction, maintenance, repair, replacement or decommissioning and reinstatement of the land;

  17. (q)

    to excavate materials below ground level, including soils, and to store and re-use or dispose of the same, and in so excavating to undertake any works, including works of protection or removal of archaeological remains as may be required by any written scheme of investigation approved under this Order;

  18. (r)

    lay out temporary paths and bridleways for public use;

  19. (s)

    to install, execute, implement, retain, repair, improve, renew, relocate, maintain and carry out mitigation, maintenance, and remediation works for environmental or ecological mitigation or enhancement works, including temporary works for noise alleviation measures and the installation of temporary barriers for the protection of fauna;

  20. (t)

    carry out such works (together with associated fencing) required by a planning permission and/or consent now or to be granted over the land and/or in accordance with any necessary licences relating to protected species and/or wildlife; and

  21. (u)

    (in an emergency only when the cables are temporarily unusable) to lay down, install, use, maintain and inspect replacement underground cables, telephone signalling and fibre-optic cables and ancillary equipment, associated works and other conducting media together with conduits or pipes for containing the same in and under the land.

2.Transition joint bay rights

Rights for the purposes of the construction, installation, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of the authorised project to lay down, install, adjust, alter, construct, create, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, remove and replace transition joint bays.

3. Restrictive covenants

A restrictive covenant over the land for the benefit of the remainder of the Order land to:

(a)

prevent anything being done in or upon the land or any part thereof for the purpose of the erection of any buildings or construction, erection or works of any kind (including the foundations or footings thereto);

(b)

prevent anything being done by way of hard surfacing of the land with concrete of any kind or with any other material or surface whatsoever without the consent in writing of the undertaker (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed if the proposed surfacing would not cause damage to relevant part of the authorised project nor make it materially more difficult or expensive to maintain the authorised project);

(c)

to prevent anything to be done by way of excavation of any kind in the land or any activities which would alter, increase or decrease ground cover or soil levels in any manner whatsoever save as are reasonably required for agricultural activities (being ploughing to no deeper than 0.6 metres for the purposes of arable farming) or are required to be carried out by any statutory undertaker in order to exercise their statutory functions or rights in relation to their apparatus (if any) within the land without the consent in writing of the undertaker;

(d)

to prevent the planting or growing within the land of any trees, shrubs or underwood without the consent in writing of the undertaker (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed provided that the proposed trees, shrubs or underwood would not cause damage to the relevant part of the authorised project nor make it materially more difficult or expensive to access and maintain the relevant part of the authorised project);

(e)

to prevent anything being done which may interfere with free flow and passage of electricity or telecommunications through the cables or support for the authorised project;

(f)

to prevent the carrying out of operations or actions (including but not limited to blasting and piling) which may obstruct, interrupt, or interfere with the exercise of the rights or damage the authorised project; and

(g)

to prevent any activity which would in the reasonable opinion of the undertaker result in the disturbance of ecological mitigation areas or areas of habitat creation or enhancement including any ploughing or grazing without the prior written consent of the undertaker.

03-038; 03-046; 03-048; 03-051; 03-053; 03-054; 03-056; 03-059; 03-064; 04-066; 04-072; 04-075; 04-077; 04-079; 05-081; 05-085; 05-086; 05-089; 05-090; 05-092; 06-107; 07-116; 07-128; 07-134; 08-147; 08-148

Cable corridor access rights

Rights for the purposes of the construction, installation, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of the authorised project to—

  1. (a)

    pass and re-pass with or without vehicles, plant, machinery, apparatus, equipment and materials for the purposes of the authorised project, the inspection, testing, maintenance, renewal, upgrading, replacement and removal of the cables and connection into any adjacent cables and associated works, to take plant and equipment on to adjoining land and make such investigations in or on the Land which is ancillary for the purposes of exercise of the rights;

  2. (b)

    to construct, use, maintain and improve a permanent means of access including visibility splays, and retain, maintain, straighten, widen, repair, alter, upgrade and use existing access routes for the purposes of accessing the land, adjoining land and the highway;

  3. (c)

    construct, lay down, use and remove temporary access roads including any necessary hard standing and other surface materials including (but not limited to) matting, aggregate, trackway, stone, tarmacadam, terram, temporary bridging, culverting or diversion of water courses and drains during any period during which construction, maintenance, repair, renewal or decommissioning is being carried out;

  4. (d)

    erect temporary bridges and supporting or protective structures for the purposes of access to adjoining land;

  5. (e)

    place and use plant, machinery, structures and temporary structures within the land, and to erect temporary signage and provide measures for the benefit of public and personnel safety;

  6. (f)

    fell, lop, cut, coppice wood, uproot trees or hedges or shrubs which now or hereafter may be present on the land for the purpose of enabling the right to pass and re-pass to adjoining land;

  7. (g)

    repair, improve, renew, remove, relocate and plant trees, woodland, shrubs, hedgerows, seeding and other ecological measures together with the right to maintain, inspect and replant such trees, shrubs and landscaping;

  8. (h)

    erect and remove temporary fencing, gates, walls, barriers or other means of enclosure; and

  9. (i)

    lay out temporary paths and bridleways for public use as temporary diversions for public rights of way which are interfered with during any period in which construction, maintenance, repair or renewal decommissioning is being carried out.

03-039; 03-040; 03-041; 03-042; 03-043; 03-044; 07-112; 07-113; 07-114; 07-115; 07-118; 07-119; 07-121; 07-122; 07-123; 07-124; 07-130; 07-131; 07-132; 08-141; 08-142; 08-143; 08-144; 08-145; 08-149

Hedgerow enhancement rights and restrictive covenants

1. Hedgerow enhancement rights

Rights for the purposes of the construction, installation, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of the authorised project to—

  1. (a)

    pass and re-pass with or without vehicles, plant, machinery, apparatus, equipment and materials for the purposes of the authorised project;

  2. (b)

    to use, maintain and improve a permanent means of access and retain, maintain, straighten, widen, repair, alter, upgrade and use existing access routes for the purposes of accessing the landscaping and mitigation land, adjoining land and highway;

  3. (c)

    place and use plant, machinery, structures and temporary structures within the land and to erect temporary signage and provide measures for the benefit of the public and personnel safety;

  4. (d)

    fell, lop, cut or remove or coppice wood, uproot trees or hedges or shrubs which now or hereafter may be standing on the land for the purpose of enabling the right to pass and re-pass to adjoining land;

  5. (e)

    install, execute, implement, retain, repair, improve, renew, remove, relocate and plant trees, woodland, shrubs, hedgerows, seeding and other hedgerow enhancement works together with the right to maintain, inspect and replant such trees, shrubs and landscaping; and

  6. (f)

    the installation of temporary barriers for the protection of fauna.

2. Restrictive covenants

A restrictive covenant over the land for the benefit of the remainder of the Order land to prevent any activity which would in the reasonable opinion of the undertaker result in the disturbance of the hedgerow enhancement works without the prior written consent of the undertaker or as authorised by a planning permission or consent granted over the land.

In the County of Denbighshire:

(1)

Number of plot shown on land plan (onshore)

(2)

Purpose for which rights may be acquired

08-146, 08-150; 08-154; 09-157; 09-158; 09-159; 09-168; 09-169; 09-171; 09-172; 09-173a; 09-173b; 09-174; 09-175; 09-176; 09-177; 09-178; 10-179; 10-180; 10-183; 10-184; 10-185; 10-188

Cable rights and restrictive covenants

1. Cable rights

Rights for the purposes of the construction, installation, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of the authorised project to—

  1. (a)

    lay down, install, retain, adjust, alter, construct, operate, erect, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, remove and replace the electricity cables (including the removal of materials including spoil) in, under, over and/or on the land, together with such telemetry and fibre-optic lines, ducting, jointing bays and other apparatus, protection measures, cable marker posts, chambers and manholes, manhole covers, cable clamping and other equipment which is ancillary to the purposes of transmitting electricity along such electricity cables (the “cables”), and in doing so, to use or resort to trenchless installation techniques including (but not limited to) directional drilling;

  2. (b)

    enter, be on, and break open and break up the surface of the land and remain with or without plant, vehicles, machinery, apparatus and equipment which is ancillary to the purposes of transmitting electricity along the cables;

  3. (c)

    to benefit from continuous vertical and lateral support for the authorised project;

  4. (d)

    pass and re-pass with or without vehicles, plant, machinery, apparatus, equipment and materials for the purposes of laying down, installing, adjusting, altering, constructing, using, maintaining, repairing, renewing, inspecting, removing, testing, upgrading and replacing the cables and connection into any adjacent cables and associated works, to take plant and equipment on to adjoining land;

  5. (e)

    construct and install the cables and thereafter use the land for all necessary purposes for the construction, commissioning, testing, repair and maintenance of the cables in, on or under the land;

  6. (f)

    place and use plant, machinery, structures and temporary structures within the land for the purposes of the installation, construction, maintenance, repairing, renewing, upgrading, inspecting, removal and replacing of the cables and to erect temporary signage and provide measures for the benefit of public and personnel safety;

  7. (g)

    erect fencing, gates, walls, barriers or other means of enclosure, and create secure working areas and compounds including trenchless installation technique compounds and working areas;

  8. (h)

    construct, lay down, use and remove temporary access roads including any necessary hard standing and other surface materials including (but not limited to) matting, aggregate, trackway, stone, tarmacadam, terram, temporary bridging, culverting or diversion of water courses and drains during any period during which construction, maintenance, repair or renewal is being carried out;

  9. (i)

    effect access to the highway including creation of temporary visibility splays;

  10. (j)

    make such investigations in or on the land as are required;

  11. (k)

    fell, lop, cut or remove or coppice wood, uproot trees or hedges or shrubs which now or hereafter may be standing on the land or other land which would if not felled, lopped, cut or removed would obstruct or interfere with the installation and operation of the cables;

  12. (l)

    remove and discharge water from the land, and to install, retain, use, maintain, inspect, alter, remove, refurbish, reconstruct, replace, protect and improve sewers, drains, pipes, ducts, mains, conduits, flues and to drain into and manage waterflows in any drains, watercourses and culverts, install, use, inspect, maintain, adjust, alter, renew, repair, test or cleanse drainage schemes on the land or reinstate any existing drainage scheme on the land;

  13. (m)

    install, alter, re-lay, maintain, protect, adjust or remove pipes, cables or conduits or apparatus including but not limited to electricity poles, electricity pylons, electricity masts, overhead electricity lines, telecommunications cables and any ancillary equipment and apparatus, public and private drains, watercourses, sewers, ponds or culverts, service media (including the pipes, cables or conduits or apparatus of statutory undertakers);

  14. (n)

    remove fences and structures within the land during any period in which construction, maintenance, repair or renewal is being carried out (subject to erection of any temporary stock-proof fencing as is reasonably required and the re-instatement or suitable replacement of the fences or structures following the exercise of the rights);

  15. (o)

    store and stockpile materials (including excavated material);

  16. (p)

    create boreholes and trial excavation pits for the purposes of intrusively surveying the land and monitoring the use of any trenchless installation technique, to keep in place and monitor the same through construction, maintenance, repair, replacement or decommissioning and reinstatement of the land;

  17. (q)

    to excavate materials below ground level, including soils, and to store and re-use or dispose of the same, and in so excavating to undertake any works, including works of protection or removal of archaeological remains as may be required by any written scheme of investigation approved under this Order;

  18. (r)

    lay out temporary paths and bridleways for public use as temporary diversions for public rights of way which are interfered with during any period in which construction, maintenance, repair, renewal or decommissioning is being carried out;

  19. (s)

    to install, execute, implement, retain, repair, improve, renew, relocate, maintain and carry out mitigation, maintenance, and remediation works for environmental or ecological mitigation or enhancement works, including temporary works for noise alleviation measures and the installation of temporary barriers for the protection of fauna;

  20. (t)

    carry out such works (together with associated fencing) required by a planning permission and/or consent now or to be granted over the land and/or in accordance with any necessary licences relating to protected species and/or wildlife;

  21. (u)

    (in an emergency only when the cables are temporarily unusable) to lay down, install, use, maintain and inspect replacement underground cables, telephone signalling and fibre-optic cables and ancillary equipment, associated works and other conducting media together with conduits or pipes for containing the same in and under the land;

  22. (v)

    to construct, use, maintain and improve a permanent means of access including visibility splays, and retain, maintain, straighten, widen, repair, alter, upgrade and use existing access routes for the purposes of accessing the land, adjoining land and the highway; and

  23. (w)

    erect temporary bridges and supporting or protective structures for the purposes of access to adjoining land.

2. Restrictive covenants

A restrictive covenant over the land for the benefit of the remainder of the Order land to:

(a)

prevent anything being done in or upon the land or any part thereof for the purpose of the erection of any buildings or construction, erection or works of any kind (including the foundations or footings thereto);

(b)

prevent anything being done by way of hard surfacing of the land with concrete of any kind or with any other material or surface whatsoever without the consent in writing of the undertaker (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed if the proposed surfacing would not cause damage to relevant part of the authorised project nor make it materially more difficult or expensive to maintain the authorised project);

(c)

to prevent anything to be done by way of excavation of any kind in the land or any activities which would alter, increase or decrease ground cover or soil levels in any manner whatsoever save as are reasonably required for agricultural activities (being ploughing to no deeper than 0.6 metres for the purposes of arable farming) or are required to be carried out by any statutory undertaker in order to exercise their statutory functions or rights in relation to their apparatus (if any) within the land without the consent in writing of the undertaker;

(d)

to prevent the planting or growing within the land of any trees, shrubs or underwood without the consent in writing of the undertaker (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed provided that the proposed trees, shrubs or underwood would not cause damage to the relevant part of the authorised project nor make it materially more difficult or expensive to access and maintain the relevant part of the authorised project);

(e)

to prevent anything being done which may interfere with free flow and passage of electricity or telecommunications through the cables or support for the authorised project;

(f)

to prevent the carrying out of operations or actions (including but not limited to blasting and piling) which may obstruct, interrupt, or interfere with the exercise of the rights or damage the authorised project; and

(g)

to prevent any activity which would in the reasonable opinion of the undertaker result in the disturbance of ecological mitigation areas or areas of habitat creation or enhancement including any ploughing or grazing without the prior written consent of the undertaker.

08-153; 09-173; 10-182; 11-189

Cable rights under existing infrastructure and restrictive covenants

1. Cable rights under existing infrastructure

Rights for the purposes of the construction, installation, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of the authorised project to—

  1. (a)

    lay down, install, retain, adjust, alter, construct, operate, erect, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, remove and replace the electricity cables (including the removal of materials including spoil) in or under the land, together with such telemetry and fibre-optic lines, ducting, jointing bays and other apparatus, protection measures, cable marker posts, chambers and manholes, manhole covers, cable clamping and other equipment which is ancillary to the purposes of transmitting electricity along such electricity cables (the “cables”), and in doing so, to use or resort to trenchless installation techniques including (but not limited to) directional drilling;

  2. (b)

    enter, be on, and remain on the land with or without plant, vehicles, machinery, apparatus and equipment which is ancillary to the purposes of transmitting electricity along the cables;

  3. (c)

    to benefit from continuous vertical and lateral support for the authorised project;

  4. (d)

    pass and re-pass with or without vehicles, plant, machinery, apparatus, equipment and materials for the purposes of laying down, installing, adjusting, altering, constructing, using, maintaining, repairing, renewing, inspecting, removing, testing, upgrading and replacing the cables and connection into any adjacent cables and associated works, to take plant and equipment on to adjoining land;

  5. (e)

    construct and install the cables and thereafter use the land for all necessary purposes for the construction, commissioning, testing, repair and maintenance of the cables in or under the land;

  6. (f)

    place and use plant, machinery, structures and temporary structures within the land for the purposes of the installation, construction, maintenance, repairing, renewing, upgrading, inspecting, removal and replacing of the cables and to erect temporary signage and provide measures for the benefit of public and personnel safety;

  7. (g)

    erect fencing, gates, walls, barriers or other means of enclosure, and create secure working areas and compounds including trenchless installation technique compounds and working areas;

  8. (h)

    construct, lay down, use and remove temporary access roads including any necessary hard standing and other surface materials including (but not limited to) matting, aggregate, trackway, stone, tarmacadam, terram, temporary bridging, culverting or diversion of water courses and drains during any period during which construction, maintenance, repair or renewal is being carried out;

  9. (i)

    effect access to the highway including creation of temporary visibility splays;

  10. (j)

    make such investigations in or on the land as are required;

  11. (k)

    fell, lop, cut or remove or coppice wood, uproot trees or hedges or shrubs which now or hereafter may be standing on the land or other land which would if not felled, lopped, cut or removed would obstruct or interfere with the installation or operation of the cables;

  12. (l)

    remove and discharge water from the land, and to install, retain, use, maintain, inspect, alter, remove, refurbish, reconstruct, replace, protect and improve sewers, drains, pipes, ducts, mains, conduits, flues and to drain into and manage waterflows in any drains, watercourses and culverts, install, use, inspect, maintain, adjust, alter, renew, repair, test or cleanse drainage schemes on the land or reinstate any existing drainage scheme on the land;

  13. (m)

    install, alter, re-lay, maintain, protect, adjust or remove pipes, cables or conduits or apparatus including but not limited to electricity poles, electricity pylons, electricity masts, overhead electricity lines, telecommunications cables and any ancillary equipment and apparatus public and private drains, watercourses, sewers, ponds or culverts, service media (including the pipes, cables or conduits or apparatus of statutory undertakers);

  14. (n)

    remove fences and structures within the land during any period during which construction, maintenance, repair or renewal is being carried out (subject to erection of any temporary stock-proof fencing as is reasonably required and the re-instatement or suitable replacement of the fences or structures following the exercise of the rights);

  15. (o)

    store and stockpile materials (including excavated material);

  16. (p)

    create boreholes and trial excavation pits for the purposes of intrusively surveying the land and monitoring the use of any trenchless installation technique, to keep in place and monitor the same through construction, maintenance repair, replacement or decommissioning and to reinstate the land;

  17. (q)

    to excavate materials below ground level, including soils, and to store and re-use or dispose of the same, and in so excavating to undertake any works, including works of protection or removal of archaeological remains as may be required by any written scheme of investigation approved under this Order;

  18. (r)

    lay out temporary paths and bridleways for public use as temporary diversions for public rights of way which are interfered with during any period in which construction, maintenance, repair or renewal or decommissioning is being carried out;

  19. (s)

    to install, execute, implement, retain, repair, improve, renew, relocate, maintain and carry out mitigation, maintenance and remediation works for environmental or ecological mitigation or enhancement works, including temporary works for noise alleviation measures and the installation of temporary barriers for the protection of fauna;

  20. (t)

    carry out such works (together with associated fencing) required by a planning permission and/or consent now or to be granted over the land and/or in accordance with any necessary licences relating to protected species and/or wildlife;

  21. (u)

    (in an emergency only when the cables are temporarily unusable) to lay down, install, use, maintain and inspect replacement underground cables, telephone signalling and fibre-optic cables and ancillary equipment, associated works and other conducting media together with conduits or pipes for containing the same in and under the land;

  22. (v)

    to construct, use, maintain and improve a permanent means of access including visibility splays, and retain, maintain, straighten, widen, repair, alter, upgrade and use existing access routes for the purposes of accessing the land, adjoining land and the highway; and

  23. (w)

    erect temporary bridges and supporting or protective structures for the purposes of access to adjoining land.

2. Restrictive covenants

A restrictive covenant over the land for the benefit of the remainder of the Order land to:

(a)

prevent anything being done in or upon the land or any part thereof for the purpose of the erection of any buildings or construction, erection or works of any kind (including the foundations or footings thereto) other than those related to works for the benefit of existing highway or railway infrastructure;

(b)

to prevent anything to be done by way of excavation of any kind in the land nor any activities which would alter, increase or decrease ground cover or soil levels by greater than one metre whatsoever without the consent in writing of the undertaker, save where such works are reasonably required for the exercise of statutory functions or rights in relation any public highway or railway on the land and will not damage, undermine or interfere with the cables;

(c)

to prevent the planting or growing within the land of any trees, shrubs or underwood without the consent in writing of the undertaker (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed provided that the proposed trees, shrubs or underwood would not cause damage to the relevant part of the authorised project nor make it materially more difficult or expensive to access and maintain the relevant part of the authorised project);

(d)

to prevent anything being done which may interfere with free flow and passage of electricity or telecommunications through the cables or support for the authorised project; and

(e)

to prevent the carrying out of operations or actions (including but not limited to blasting and piling) which may obstruct, interrupt, or interfere with the exercise of the rights or damage the authorised project.

08-148; 08-151; 08-152; 09-161; 09-170; 10-181; 10-186; 10-187; 11-196; 11-221; 11-231; 11-232; 11-235

Cable corridor access rights

Rights for the purposes of the construction, installation, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of the authorised project to—

  1. (a)

    pass and re-pass with or without vehicles, plant, machinery, apparatus, equipment and materials for the purposes of the authorised project, the inspection, testing, maintenance, renewal, upgrading, replacement and removal of the cables and connection into any adjacent cables and associated works, to take plant and equipment on to adjoining land and make such investigations in or on the Land which is ancillary for the purposes of exercise of the rights;

  2. (b)

    to construct, use, maintain and improve a permanent means of access including visibility splays, and retain, maintain, straighten, widen, repair, alter, upgrade and use existing access routes for the Cable corridor access rights

Rights for the purposes of the construction, installation, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of the authorised project to—

(a)

pass and re-pass with or without vehicles, plant, machinery, apparatus, equipment and materials for the purposes of the authorised project, the inspection, testing, maintenance, renewal, upgrading, replacement and removal of the cables and connection into any adjacent cables and associated works, to take plant and equipment on to adjoining land and make such investigations in or on the Land which is ancillary for the purposes of exercise of the rights;

(b)

to construct, use, maintain and improve a permanent means of access including visibility splays, and retain, maintain, straighten, widen, repair, alter, upgrade and use existing access routes for the purposes of accessing the land, adjoining land and the highway;

(c)

construct, lay down, use and remove temporary access roads including any necessary hard standing and other surface materials including (but not limited to) matting, aggregate, trackway, stone, tarmacadam, terram, temporary bridging, culverting or diversion of water courses and drains during any period during which construction, maintenance, repair, renewal or decommissioning is being carried out;

(d)

erect temporary bridges and supporting or protective structures for the purposes of access to adjoining land;

(e)

place and use plant, machinery, structures and temporary structures within the land, and to erect temporary signage and provide measures for the benefit of public and personnel safety;

(f)

fell, lop, cut, coppice wood, uproot trees or hedges or shrubs which now or hereafter may be present on the land for the purpose of enabling the right to pass and re-pass to adjoining land;

(g)

repair, improve, renew, remove, relocate and plant trees, woodland, shrubs, hedgerows, seeding and other ecological measures together with the right to maintain, inspect and replant such trees, shrubs and landscaping;

(h)

erect and remove temporary fencing, gates, walls, barriers or other means of enclosure; and

(i)

lay out temporary paths and bridleways for public use as temporary diversions for public rights of way which are interfered with during any period in which construction, maintenance, repair or renewal decommissioning is being carried out.

08-149; 09-155; 09-156; 11-193; 11-194; 11-195, 11-195a

Hedgerow enhancement rights and restrictive covenants

1.Hedgerow enhancement rights

Rights for the purposes of the construction, installation, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of the authorised project to—

  1. (a)

    pass and re-pass with or without vehicles, plant, machinery, apparatus, equipment and materials for the purposes of the authorised project;

  2. (b)

    to use, maintain and improve a permanent means of access and retain, maintain, straighten, widen, repair, alter, upgrade and use existing access routes for the purposes of accessing the landscaping and mitigation land, adjoining land and highway;

  3. (c)

    place and use plant, machinery, structures and temporary structures within the land and to erect temporary signage and provide measures for the benefit of the public and personnel safety;

  4. (d)

    fell, lop, cut or remove or coppice wood, uproot trees or hedges or shrubs which now or hereafter may be standing on the land for the purpose of enabling the right to pass and re-pass to adjoining land;

  5. (e)

    install, execute, implement, retain, repair, improve, renew, remove, relocate and plant trees, woodland, shrubs, hedgerows, seeding and other hedgerow enhancement works together with the right to maintain, inspect and replant such trees, shrubs and landscaping; and

  6. (f)

    the installation of temporary barriers for the protection of fauna.

2. Restrictive covenants

A restrictive covenant over the land for the benefit of the remainder of the Order land to prevent any activity which would in the reasonable opinion of the undertaker result in the disturbance of the hedgerow enhancement works without the prior written consent of the undertaker or as authorised by a planning permission or consent granted over the land.

11-191; 11-192; 11-214

Landscaping and ecological mitigation works rights and restrictive covenants

1. Landscaping and ecological mitigation works rights

Rights for the purposes of the construction, installation, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of the authorised project to—

  1. (a)

    install, execute, implement, retain, repair, improve, renew, remove, relocate and plant trees, woodland, shrubs, hedgerows, seeding and other landscaping and ecological measures together with the right to maintain, inspect and replant such trees, shrubs and landscaping;

  2. (b)

    install, execute, implement, retain, repair, improve, renew, relocate, maintain and carry out mitigation, maintenance, remediation works for environmental or ecological mitigation or enhancement works, including temporary works and the installation of temporary barriers for the protection of fauna;

  3. (c)

    place and use plant, machinery, structures and temporary structures within the land and to erect temporary signage and provide measures for the benefit of the public and personnel safety;

  4. (d)

    fell, lop, cut or remove or coppice wood, uproot trees or hedges or shrubs which now or hereafter may be standing on the land for the purpose of enabling the right to pass and re-pass to adjoining land; and

  5. (e)

    carry out such works (together with associated fencing) required by a planning permission and/or consent now or to be granted over the land in accordance with any necessary licences relating to protected species and/or wildlife.

2. Restrictive covenants

A restrictive covenant over the land for the benefit of the remainder of the Order land to prevent any activity which would in the reasonable opinion of the undertaker result in the disturbance of landscaping or ecological mitigation measures or works or areas of habitat creation including any ploughing or grazing, during the period within which the undertaker is bound by any consent or licence to maintain that ecological mitigation measures or works or areas of habitat creation, without the prior written consent of the undertaker.

11-198; 11-200; 11-201; 11-202; 11-203; 11-204; 11-205; 11-206; 11-207; 11-226; 11-227

National Grid connection rights and restrictions

1.Rights

Rights for the purposes of the construction, installation, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of the authorised project to—

  1. (a)

    lay down, install, retain, adjust, alter, construct, operate, erect, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, remove and replace the electricity cables (including the removal of materials including spoil) in, under, over and/or on the land, together with such telemetry and fibre-optic lines, ducting, jointing bays and other apparatus, protection measures, cable marker posts, chambers and manholes, manhole covers, cable clamping and other equipment which is ancillary to the purposes of transmitting electricity along such electricity cables (the “cables”), and in doing so, to use or resort to trenchless installation techniques including (but not limited to) directional drilling;

  2. (b)

    enter, be on, and break open and break up the surface of the land and remain with or without plant, vehicles, machinery, apparatus and equipment which is ancillary to the purposes of transmitting electricity along the cables;

  3. (c)

    to benefit from continuous vertical and lateral support for the authorised project;

  4. (d)

    pass and re-pass with or without vehicles, plant, machinery, apparatus, equipment and materials for the purposes of laying down, installing, adjusting, altering, constructing, using, maintaining, repairing, renewing, inspecting the authorised project and for removing and replacing the cables;

  5. (e)

    to use, maintain, renew improve and alter existing accesses, roads, streets, tracks or ways over the land, providing that such use is not exclusive and exercise of this right must not prevent or unreasonably inhibit use by other parties;

  6. (f)

    construct, lay down, use and remove temporary access roads including any necessary hard standing and other surface materials including (but not limited to) matting, aggregate, trackway, stone, tarmacadam, terram, temporary bridging, culverting or diversion of water courses and drains during any period during which construction, maintenance, repair, renewal or decommissioning is being carried out;

  7. (g)

    place and use plant, machinery, structures and temporary structures within the land, and to erect temporary signage and provide measures for the benefit of public and personnel safety;

  8. (h)

    fell, lop, cut, coppice wood, uproot trees or hedges or shrubs which now or hereafter may be present on the land for the purpose of enabling the right to pass and re-pass to adjoining land;

  9. (i)

    remove and discharge water from the land and to install, retain, use, maintain, inspect, alter, remove, refurbish, reconstruct, replace, protect and improve sewers, drains, pipes, ducts, mains, conduits, flues and to drain into and manage waterflows in any drains, watercourses and culverts, to lay down, install, adjust, alter, construct, create, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, remove and replace a drainage scheme on the land; and

  10. (j)

    install, alter, re-lay, maintain, protect, adjust or remove pipes, cables or conduits or apparatus including but not limited to electricity poles, electricity pylons, electricity masts, overhead electricity lines, telecommunications cables and any ancillary equipment and apparatus public and private drains, watercourses, sewers, ponds or culverts, service media (including the pipes, cables or conduits or apparatus of statutory undertakers).

2. Restrictive covenants

A restrictive covenant over the land for the benefit of the remainder of the Order land to:

(a)

prevent anything being done in or upon the land or any part thereof for the purpose of the erection of any buildings or construction, erection or works of any kind (including the foundations or footings thereto);

(b)

prevent anything being done by way of hard surfacing of the land with concrete of any kind or with any other material or surface whatsoever without the consent in writing of the undertaker (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed if the proposed surfacing would not cause damage to relevant part of the authorised project nor make it materially more difficult or expensive to maintain the authorised project);

(c)

to prevent anything to be done by way of excavation of any kind in the land or any activities which would alter, increase or decrease ground cover or soil levels in any manner whatsoever save as are reasonably required for agricultural activities (being ploughing to no deeper than 0.6 metres for the purposes of arable farming) or are required to be carried out by any statutory undertaker in order to exercise their statutory functions or rights in relation to their apparatus (if any) within the land without the consent in writing of the undertaker;

(d)

to prevent the planting or growing within the land of any trees, shrubs or underwood without the consent in writing of the undertaker (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed provided that the proposed trees, shrubs or underwood would not cause damage to the relevant part of the authorised project nor make it materially more difficult or expensive to access and maintain the relevant part of the authorised project);

(e)

to prevent anything being done which may interfere with free flow and passage of electricity or telecommunications through the cables or support for the authorised project;

(f)

to prevent the carrying out of operations or actions (including but not limited to blasting and piling) which may obstruct, interrupt, or interfere with the exercise of the rights or damage the authorised project; and

(g)

to prevent any activity which would in the reasonable opinion of the undertaker result in the disturbance of ecological mitigation areas or areas of habitat creation or enhancement including any ploughing or grazing without the prior written consent of the undertaker.

11-221; 11-222; 11-223; 11-224; 11-225; 11-231; 11-232; 11-235

National Grid substation access rights

Rights for the purposes of the construction, installation, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of the authorised project to—

  1. (a)

    pass and re-pass with or without vehicles, plant, machinery, apparatus, equipment and materials for the purposes of laying down, installing, adjusting, altering, constructing, using, maintaining, repairing, renewing, inspecting the authorised project and for removing and replacing the cables and substation;

  2. (b)

    to use, maintain, renew improve and alter existing accesses, roads, streets, tracks or ways over the land, providing that such use is not exclusive and exercise of this right must not prevent or unreasonably inhibit use by other parties;

  3. (c)

    construct, lay down, use and remove temporary access roads including any necessary hard standing and other surface materials including (but not limited to) matting, aggregate, trackway, stone, tarmacadam, terram, temporary bridging, culverting or diversion of water courses and drains during any period during which construction, maintenance, repair, renewal or decommissioning is being carried out;

  4. (d)

    place and use plant, machinery, structures and temporary structures within the land, and to erect temporary signage and provide measures for the benefit of public and personnel safety;

  5. (e)

    fell, lop, cut, coppice wood, uproot trees or hedges or shrubs which now or hereafter may be present on the land for the purpose of enabling the right to pass and re-pass to adjoining land;

  6. (f)

    remove and discharge water from the land and to install, retain, use, maintain, inspect, alter, remove, refurbish, reconstruct, replace, protect and improve sewers, drains, pipes, ducts, mains, conduits, flues and to drain into and manage waterflows in any drains, watercourses and culverts, to lay down, install, adjust, alter, construct, create, use, maintain, repair, renew, upgrade, inspect, remove and replace a drainage scheme on the land; and

  7. (g)

    install, alter, re-lay, maintain, protect, adjust or remove pipes, cables or conduits or apparatus including but not limited to electricity poles, electricity pylons, electricity masts, overhead electricity lines, telecommunications cables and any ancillary equipment and apparatus public and private drains, watercourses, sewers, ponds or culverts, service media (including the pipes, cables or conduits or apparatus of statutory undertakers).

11-221; 11-231; 11-232; 11-235

Landscaping and ecological mitigation land access rights

Rights for the purposes of the construction, installation, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of the authorised project to—

  1. (a)

    pass and re-pass with or without vehicles, plant, machinery, apparatus, equipment and materials for the inspection, maintenance, renewal, upgrading, replacement and removal of the landscaping and ecological mitigation works;

  2. (b)

    to use, maintain and improve a permanent means of access and retain, maintain, straighten, widen, repair, alter, upgrade and use existing access routes for the purposes of accessing the landscaping and mitigation land, adjoining land and highway; and

  3. (c)

    fell, lop, cut, coppice wood, uproot trees or hedges or shrubs which now or hereafter may be present on the access area for the purpose of enabling the right to pass and re-pass to the landscaping and ecological mitigation land.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Word in Sch. 8 substituted (24.10.2025) by The Mona Offshore Wind Farm (Correction) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/1123), art. 1, Sch.

Commencement

I1

Sch. 8 in force at 28.7.2025, see art. 1