# The National Grid (Richborough Connection Project) Development Consent Order 2017, Paragraph 1

Extent: E+W

(1) The provisions of this Part of this Schedule shall have effect unless otherwise agreed in writing between the undertaker and the highway authority;
(2) In this Part of this Schedule—
“highway” has the same meaning as in the 1980 Act;
“the highway authority” means Kent County Council including its successor;
“plans” includes sections, designs, drawings, specifications, soil reports, staging proposals, programmes, calculations, methods of construction, risk assessments and details of the extent, timing and duration of any proposed occupation of any highway and “approved plans” means plans approved or deemed to be approved or settled by arbitration in accordance with the provisions of this Part of this Schedule;
“property of the highway authority” means any apparatus or street furniture of the highway authority affixed to or placed under any highway; and
(3) Wherever in this Part of this Schedule provision is made with respect to the approval or consent of the highway authority, that approval or consent shall be in writing and subject to such reasonable terms and conditions as the highway authority may require.
(4) In exercising the powers conferred by this Order in relation to any highway the undertaker shall have regard to the potential disruption of traffic which may be caused and shall seek to minimise such disruption so far as is reasonably practicable.
(5) The undertaker shall not, without the consent of the highway authority, construct any part of the works authorised by this Order under and within 50 metres of the surface of any highway which comprises a carriageway except in accordance with plans submitted to, and approved by, the highway authority; and if within 28 days after such plans have been submitted the highway authority has not approved or disapproved them, it shall be deemed to have approved the plans as submitted.
(6) In the construction of any part of the said works under a highway no part of it shall, except with the consent of the highway authority, be so constructed as to interfere with the provision of proper means of drainage of the surface of the highway or be nearer than two metres to the surface of the highway.
(7) The undertaker shall not under the powers conferred by or under this Order without the consent of the highway authority, acquire or enter upon, take or use whether temporarily or permanently or acquire any new rights over any part of any highway, including subsoil beneath the surface of any highway.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/817/schedule/14/part/3/paragraph/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-grid-richborough-connection-project-development-consent-order-2017/schedule-14/part-3/paragraph-1
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