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 (i.e. extinguishing) highway rights over a section of highway adjacent to the property known as 1, The Ham, Kington St. Michael, 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. Photographs are shown at Appendix 2.

To consent to the proposed application as recommended in the attached report.

This decision was published on 25 March 2025 and will come into effect on 2 April 2025.

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 Howard Greenman, has made no objection to the proposal.

On 16 January 2025, Kington St. Michael Parish Council consented to the application being made. The consent is appended at Appendix 3.