Decision details

To ask the Cabinet Member for Highways and Transport to consider whether the Council should grant a request from Mr. & Mrs. Burt of 2 New Cottages, Shaftesbury Road, Mere to apply to the magistrates’ court for an order stopping-up highway rights over a section of highway adjacent to their property on the ground that the section concerned is unnecessary for public use or any other highway-related reason.

The area concerned is shown cross-hatched in black on the plan at Appendix 1.

I give notice that I consent to the proposed application. This decision was published on 22 April 2021 and will come into effect on 30 April 2021.

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 22 July 2020, Mere Town Council consented to the proposed application being made.  A copy of the signed consent form is shown at Appendix 2.

The local member, Councillor George Jeans, supports the the proposed application.