The Transport and Works Act 1992

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

Network Rail (Hope Valley Capacity) 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 and operate works on the Hope Valley Line between Sheffield and Manchester for the purposes of improving capacity for the operation of railway services between Sheffield and Manchester.

The works include new sections of embankment and cutting and associated works to the east of Bamford Station and a new section of railway, running partly on embankment and partly in cutting, and associated works to the west of Dore and Totley Station. The Order would also authorise alterations to existing railway infrastructure together with a new footbridge to the west of Hathersage Station to replace an existing level crossing and station improvement works at Dore and Totley Station.

The Order makes provision for Network Rail to compulsorily acquire land, interests in land, including the imposition of restrictive covenants, and to use land temporarily for the purposes of the works to be authorised by the Order. The Order also confers powers for the construction and operation of the railway.

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

The Order makes provision to carry out protective works to buildings on land within the limits of the Order, to survey and investigate land 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, DfT Legal Adviser’s Office, Department for Transport, Zone 1/14-18, 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 6 November 2015, (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.

25 September 2015