Decision details

To ask the Cabinet Member for Highways and Transport to consider whether the Council should grant a request from Mr. Bruce Lawson of 14 Whitehill Lane, Wootton Bassett to apply to the magistrates’ court for an order stopping-up highway rights over a section of highway adjacent to his property on the ground that the section concerned is unnecessary for public use or any other highway-related reason.

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

I approve the decision set out in the attached report.

This decision was published on 30 June 2020 and will come into force on 8 July 2020.

Officers consider that the highway concerned can be stopped up as it is unnecessary for public use or any other highway-related purpose and the Council may 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 13 February 2020, Royal Wootton Bassett Town Council consented to the application being made.  A copy of the signed consent form is shown at Appendix 2.

The local member, Councillor Chris Hurst, has no objection to the proposal.