# The Stonestreet Green Solar Order 2025, Paragraph 35: Apparatus in stopped up rights of way

Extent: E+W+S

(1) Where any public right of way is closed or stopped up under article 17 (public rights of way – stopping up and vehicular use on public rights of way) and the utility undertaker has apparatus in that public right of way, the utility undertaker will continue to have the same powers and rights in respect of that apparatus as it enjoyed immediately before the closure or stopping up and the undertaker must grant to the utility undertaker legal easements reasonably satisfactory to the utility undertaker in respect of such apparatus and access to it, but nothing in this paragraph affects any right of the undertaker or of the utility undertaker to require the removal of that apparatus under paragraph 37 (removal of apparatus) or the power of the undertaker to carry out works under paragraph 39 (retained apparatus).
(2) Regardless of the temporary closure or diversion of any street under the powers of article 10 (street works and temporary closure of streets and private means of access), the utility undertaker is at liberty at all times to take all necessary access across any such closed or diverted street and to execute and do all such works and things in any such street as may be reasonably necessary or desirable to enable it to maintain any apparatus which at the time of the closure or diversion was in that street.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1175/schedule/13/paragraph/35 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/stonestreet-green-solar-order-2025/schedule-13/paragraph-35
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