“trunk road” means a highway which is a trunk road by virtue of— 

(a) section 10( a ) (general provisions as to trunk roads) or 19(1)( b ) (certain special roads and other highways to become trunk roads) of the 1980 Act; or 

(b) an order or direction under section 10 of that Act; or 

(c) an order granting development consent; or 

(d) any other enactment; 

“undertaker” means Highways England Company Limited (Company No. 09346363) whose registered office is at Bridge House, 1 Walnut Tree Close, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 4LZ; 

“United Utilities Group PLC” means the Company registered in England and Wales, company number 06559020, whose registered office is at Haweswater House, Lingley Mere Business Park, Lingley Green Avenue, Great Sankey, Warrington WA5 3LP; 

“watercourse” includes all rivers, streams, ditches, drains, canals, cuts, culverts, dykes, sluices, sewers and passages through which water flows except a public sewer or drain; and 

“the works plans” means the plans listed in Schedule 11 (documents to be certified) and certified as the works plans by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order. 

(2) References in this Order to rights over land include references to rights to do, or to place and maintain, anything in, on or under land or in the airspace above its surface and references in this Order to the imposition of restrictive covenants are references to the creation of rights over land which interfere with the interests or rights of another and are for the benefit of land which is acquired under this Order or is otherwise comprised in the Order land. 

(3) All distances, directions and lengths referred to in this Order are approximate and distances between points on a work comprised in the authorised development are taken to be measured along that work. 

(4) For the purposes of this Order, all areas described in square metres in the book of reference are approximate. 

(5) References in this Order to points identified by letters or numbers are to be construed as references to points so lettered or numbered on the streets, rights of way and access plans. 

(6) References in this Order to numbered works are references to works as numbered in Schedule 1 (authorised development). 

## Development consent etc. granted by the Order 

## PRINCIPAL POWERS 

## PART 2 

3. —(1) Subject to the provisions of this Order including the requirements in Schedule 2 (requirements), the undertaker is granted development consent for the authorised development to be carried out within the Order limits. 

(2) Any enactment applying to land within or adjacent to the Order limits has effect subject to the provisions of this Order. 

(3) Nothing in this Order prevents the carrying out of operations pursuant to article 19 (authority to survey and investigate the land) immediately upon this Order coming into force. 

