The Transport and Works Act 1992

The Transport and Works (Applications and Objections Procedure) (England and Wales) Rules 2006

The Network Rail (Buxton Sidings Extension) Order

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR AN ORDER

Network Rail Infrastructure Limited (“Network Rail”) of 1 Eversholt Street, London NW1 2DN is applying to the Secretary of State for Transport under section 6 of the Transport and Works Act 1992 for the above-mentioned Order under sections 1 and 5 of that Act.

The Order would authorise Network Rail to construct, operate and maintain an extension to the existing railway sidings at Buxton, Derbyshire together with associated works for the purposes of improving freight capacity between the Peak Forest and Hope Valley terminals and London via Dore South Junction and the Midland Mainline.

The Order also authorises the construction of a new section of footbridge to extend the existing bridged public right of way over the new railway works.

The Order makes provision for Network Rail to compulsorily acquire land, interests in land including the acquisition of rights and to use land temporarily for the purposes of the works to be authorised by the Order.

The Order includes provisions to execute street works, temporarily and permanently stop up footpaths, provide access to the works, make Traffic Regulation Orders and provisions relating to streets.

The Order makes provision to carry out protective works to buildings and to survey and investigate land within the limits of the Order and to discharge water.

The Order also provides for powers relating to the operation and use of the railway, a defence to proceedings in respect of statutory nuisance, the felling or lopping of trees overhanging the proposed works, the prevention of obstruction of the construction of works and ancillary provisions.

The application is to be made subject to an Environmental Impact Assessment.

The application contains a statement that a direction for deemed planning permission is being applied for.

Any objections to, or other representations about, the proposals in the application should be sent to the Secretary of State for Transport c/o Transport and Works Act Orders Unit, Legal Service, Department for Transport, Zone 1/14 - 1/18, Great Minster House, 33 Horseferry Road, London SW1P 4DR (e-mail: transportandworksact@dft.gsi.gov.uk).

An objection or other representation MUST (i) be received by the Secretary of State for Transport on or before 14 October 2016, (ii) be made in writing (whether sent by post or e-mail), (iii) state the grounds of the objection or other representation, (iv) indicate who is making the objection or other representation, and (v) give an address to which correspondence relating to the objection or other representation may be sent. (If you are sending your objection or other representation by e-mail, please provide a postal address).

The Secretary of State for Transport may make complete copies of the objections and other representations public, including any personal information contained in them, and will copy them to the applicant for the Order.

Eversheds LLP, Solicitors and Parliamentary Agents, One Wood Street, London EC2V 7WS.

On behalf of Network Rail Infrastructure Limited.

2 September 2016