Local Government (Highways) Act 1982

For the purpose of carrying out highway works in a highway a corporation may enter any land adjoining the highway.

Where it is necessary or desirable to do so to facilitate the carrying out of highway works in a highway, the corporation may use any uncultivated land as a temporary deviation of the highway and, subject to any directions given by the corporation, the same rights of passage subsist over the deviation while it is kept open as subsist over the highway.

Where any land is used as a temporary deviation under subsection (2), the corporation shall give the occupier of the land as much protection against trespass, by fencing or otherwise, as he would have had but for the use of the land as a temporary deviation.

A corporation is not liable to pay compensation in respect of the exercise of its powers under this section but shall, as far and as soon as practicable, make good all damage done by the exercise of those powers.