Decision details

To ask the Cabinet Member for Highways, Transport & Waste to consider whether the Council should grant a request from Mr. and Mrs. Hay of The Castle, Broadwater to apply to the magistrates’ court for an order stopping up highway rights over land adjacent to their property on the ground that these rights are not necessary for public use. 

The two sections of highway concerned are shown cross-hatched on the plan at Appendix 1.  

I approve the decision set out in the attached report.

This decision was published on 18 March 2019 and will come into force on 26 March 2019.

Officers consider that the sections of highway concerned can be stopped up as they are unnecessary for public use and the Council can accordingly apply to the court for an Order.

The Cabinet Member may resolve to:

(i) Give consent to the application

(ii) Refuse to give consent to the application, in which case reasons should be given for doing so.

On 21 August 2018, Donhead St. Andrew Parish Council consented to the application being made and a copy of the signed consent is shown at Appendix 2.

The local member, Councillor Tony Deane, does not oppose the proposal.