“application” means an application or request for any consent, agreement or approval required or contemplated by articles 6 (street works), 8 (construction and maintenance of new, altered or diverted streets), 11 (temporary stopping up and restriction of use of streets), 12 (access to works), 15 (discharge of water), 17 (authority to survey and investigate land) and 53 (traffic regulation measures); and 

“relevant authority” means a planning authority, a traffic authority, a highway authority or a street authority. 

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport 

30th April 2020 

Susan Anderson Head of the Transport and Works Orders Unit Department for Transport 

