17Crown development and public utilities

17 Crown development and public utilities

17 Crown development and public utilities

17.1 Nothing in this plan shall be construed as restricting or prohibiting or enabling the Council to restrict or prohibit—

(a) the carrying out of development of any description specified in this Clause, or

(b) the use of existing buildings of the Crown by the Crown.

17.2 The carrying out by persons carrying on railway undertakings on land comprised in their undertakings of—

(a) any development required in connection with the movement of traffic by rail, including the construction, reconstruction, alteration, maintenance and repair of ways, works and plant, and

(b) the erection within the limits of a railway station of buildings for any railway purpose,

but excluding—

(c) the construction of new railways, railway stations and bridges over roads,

(d) the erection, reconstruction and alteration of buildings for purposes other than railway undertaking purposes outside the limits of a railway station and the reconstruction or alteration so as materially to affect the design thereof of railway stations or bridges,

(e) the formation or alteration of any means of access to a road, and

(f) the erection, reconstruction and alteration of buildings for purposes other than railway purposes where such buildings have direct access to a public place.

17.3 The carrying out by persons carrying on public utility undertakings, being water, sewerage, drainage, electricity or gas undertakings, of any of the following development, being development required for the purposes of their undertakings, that is to say—

(a) development of any description at or below the surface of the ground,

(b) the installation of any plant inside a building or the installation or erection within the premises of a generating station or substation established before the appointed day of any plant or other structures or erections required in connection with the station or substation,

(c) the installation or erection of any plant or other structures or erections by way of addition to or replacement or extension of plant or structures or erections already installed or erected, including the installation in an electrical transmission line of substations, feeder-pillars or transformer housing, but not including the erection of overhead lines for the supply of electricity or pipes above the surface of the ground for the supply of water, or the installation of substations, feeder-pillars or transformer housings of stone, concrete or brickworks,