Article 30 Open spaceI1

Network Rail shall not exercise the powers conferred by article 17 (power to acquire land), article 20 (power to acquire new rights) or article 21 (new rights, etc., only to be acquired in certain lands) in respect of the open space land until Network Rail has acquired the exchange land and North Hertfordshire District Council has certified that a scheme for the provision of the exchange land as open space has been implemented to its satisfaction.

On the requirements of paragraph (1) being satisfied, the exchange land shall vest in North Hertfordshire District Council subject to the equivalent rights, trusts and incidents as attached to the open space land; and the open space land shall be discharged from all rights, trusts and incidents to which it was previously subject, or in a case where rights are being acquired over that land, from all such rights, trusts and incidents as are inconsistent with the exercise of those rights.

In this article—

• “the exchange land” means the land comprised in plots numbered 18 and 21 to the extent shown coloured pink on the open space plan; and

• “the open space land” means the open space comprised in plots numbered 16, 22 and 24 to the extent shown coloured blue, green and yellow on the open space plan.