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

Network Rail (Huddersfield to Westtown (Dewsbury) Improvements) 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 works on the Transpennine Line between Huddersfield and Westtown (Dewsbury) for the purposes of increasing capacity and improving journey time and performance reliability of rail services on the Transpennine Line both between Huddersfield and Westtown (Dewsbury) and Manchester, Leeds and York.

The Order would authorise works to construct a new railway, including the upgrade and reconstruction of the existing railway, railway electrification works and associated works between Huddersfield and Westtown (Dewsbury). The Order would also authorise the construction of station improvement works at Huddersfield and works for the construction or reconstruction of stations at Deighton, Mirfield and Ravensthorpe.

The Order makes provision for Network Rail to compulsorily acquire land, the subsoil of 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 confers powers for the construction and operation of the railway and the disapplication of legislative provisions. The Order also makes provision regarding the application of local railway enactments and the application of existing agreements.

The Order includes provisions to execute street works, temporarily and permanently stop up footpaths and highways, alter the layout of streets, provide access to works, make traffic regulations and provisions relating to streets. The Order also makes provision for the closure of accommodation crossings.

The Order makes provision to discharge water, to carry out protective works to buildings, roads and apparatus of a statutory undertaker on land within the limits of the Order, to survey and investigate land, to use private roads for construction and to temporarily close and carry out works in the Huddersfield Broad Canal and the Calder and Hebble Navigation.

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 and 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.

Further information about the proposals can also be obtained by telephoning Network Rail’s national helpline on 03457 11 41 41.

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 Infrastructure Planning Unit, Department for Transport, Great Minster House, 33 Horseferry Road, London, SW1P 4DR (e-mail: transportinfrastructure@dft.gov.uk).

An objection or other representation MUST (i) be received by the Secretary of State for Transport on or before 17 May 2021, (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 and state "Network Rail Huddersfield to Westtown TWA Order" in the subject of the email).

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 Sutherland (International) LLP, Solicitors and Parliamentary Agents, One Wood Street, London EC2V 7WS.

On behalf of Network Rail Infrastructure Limited.

31 March 2021