Decision details

To ask the Cabinet Member for Highways, Street Scene & Flooding to consider whether Wiltshire Council should apply to the magistrates’ court for an order stopping-up highway rights over a section of highway adjacent to The Ship Inn, Burcombe Lane, Burcombe, on the ground that the section concerned is unnecessary for public use or any other highway-related reason.

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

I consent to the proposed application.

This decision was published on 20 August 2024 and will come into effect on 29 August 2024.

On consideration of the matter, officers are of the view that the section of highway concerned is unnecessary for public or any other highway-related reason.

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.

The local member, Councillor Nabil Najjar, has made no objection to the proposal.

On 4 March 2024, Burcombe Parish Council consented to the application being made.  However, despite repeated requests, the parish council has not provided unequivocal confirmation of its consent.  The legislation, namely Highways Act 1980, does not require consent from a town or parish council, but provides that an application may not be made if consent is expressly refused.  Officers would propose to proceed accordingly.