## Power to execute street works 

12. —(1) The Authority may, for the purpose of exercising the powers conferred by article 11 (power to keep apparatus in streets) or any other provision of this Order, enter upon any street and may execute any works required for or incidental to the exercise of those powers including, without limitation on the scope of that power, breaking up or opening the street, or any sewer, drain or tunnel under it, or tunnelling or boring under the street. 

(2) The powers conferred by this article must not be exercised within the boundaries of a street outside of the Order limits and the limits of deviation without the consent of the street authority, but such consent must not be unreasonably withheld. 

## Stopping up of streets 

13. —(1) Subject to the provisions of this article, the Authority may, in connection with the construction of the authorised works, stop up each of the streets specified in columns (1) and (2) of Parts 1 and 2 of Schedule 3 (streets to be stopped up) to the extent specified, by reference to the letters shown on the works and land plans, in column (3) of those Parts of that Schedule. 

(2) No street specified in columns (1) and (2) of Part 1 of Schedule 3 (being a street to be stopped up for which a substitute is to be provided) is to be wholly or partly stopped up under this article unless— 

(a) the new street to be substituted for it, which is specified in column (4) of that Part of that Schedule, has been completed to the reasonable satisfaction of the street authority and is open for use; or 

(b) a temporary alternative route for the passage of such traffic as could have used the street to be stopped up is first provided and subsequently maintained by the Authority, to the reasonable satisfaction of the street authority, between the commencement and termination points for the stopping up of the street until the completion and opening of the new street in accordance with sub-paragraph (a). 

(3) No street specified in columns (1) and (2) of Part 2 of Schedule 3 (being a street to be stopped up for which no substitute is to be provided) is to be wholly or partly stopped up under this article unless the condition specified in paragraph (4) is satisfied in relation to all the land which abuts on either side of the street to be stopped up. 

(4) The condition referred to in paragraph (3) is that— 

(a) the Authority is in possession of the land; or 

(b) there is no right of access to the land from the street concerned; or 

(c) there is reasonably convenient access to the land otherwise than from the street concerned; or 

(d) the owners and occupiers of the land have agreed to the stopping up. 

(5) Where a street has been stopped up under this article— 

(a) all rights of way over or along the street so stopped up are extinguished; and 

(b) the Authority may appropriate and use for the purposes of its tramway undertaking so much of the site of the street as is bounded on both sides by land owned by the Authority. 

(6) Any person who suffers loss by the extinguishment of any private right of way under this article is entitled to compensation to be determined, in case of dispute, under Part 1 of the 1961 Act. 

(7) This article is subject to paragraph 2 of Schedule 9 (provisions relating to statutory undertakers etc.). 

## Temporary stopping up of streets 

14. —(1) The Authority may, during and for the purposes of the construction of the authorised works, temporarily stop up, alter or divert any street and may for any reasonable time— 

