Decision Maker: Cabinet Member for Transport, Street Scene and Flooding
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: Yes
To ask the Cabinet Member for Transport, Waste, Street Scene & Flooding to consider whether Wiltshire Council should grant a request from Mr. Philip Mickelborough for the Council to apply to the magistrates’ court for an order stopping-up highway rights over a section of highway adjacent to his property, The Queen’s Head at St. Martin’s, Marlborough, on the ground that the section concerned is unnecessary for public use or any other highway-related reason.
The section of highway is shown shaded blue on the plan at Appendix 1.
I consent to the proposed application.
This decision was published on 11 May 2022 and will come into effect on 19 May 2022
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.
Other reasons / organisations consulted
On 24 March 2022, Marlborough Town Council consented to the application being made. A copy of the signed consent form is shown at Appendix 2.
The local members, Councillors Jane Davies and Caroline Thomas, have no objection.
Contact: Kevin Gale, Email: kevin.gale@wiltshire.gov.uk.
Publication date: 28/04/2022
Date of decision: 11/05/2022
Effective from: 19/05/2022
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