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.
Decision type: Non-key
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Notice of proposed decision first published: 13/04/2021
Decision due: Not before 21 Apr 2021 by Cabinet Member for Transport, Street Scene and Flooding
Lead member: Cllr Bridget Wayman bridget.wayman@wiltshire.gov.uk
Department: Place
Contact: Kevin Gale, Senior Legal Executive Email: kevin.gale@wiltshire.gov.uk Tel: 01225 718023.
Consultation process
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.