Decision details

To ask the Cabinet Member for Highways and Transport to consider whether the Council should grant a request from Mr. and Mrs. Dunkerley to apply to the magistrates’ court for an order stopping up highway rights over part of the highway adjacent to Meadow View, Woodborough on the ground that the highway is unnecessary for public use or any other highway-related reason.

The section of highway concerned is shown cross-hatched on the plan at Appendix 1

Following consultation with officers, I give notice that I intend to make the decision in accordance with the officer’s recommendation set out in the attached report.  If you would like to make any representations to me on this issue please do so by 14 June.

Officers consider that the highway concerned can be stopped up as it is 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 28 September 2018, Woodborough Parish Council consented to the application being made and a copy of the signed consent form is shown at Appendix 2.

The local member, Councillor Paul Oatway QPM, does not object to the proposal.