Issue - decisions

Director agreed subject to the adjacent property owners submitting an application under Section 117 Highways Act 1980 to the Council to request the ‘stopping up’ of said highway and confirming they will fund all the legal work required, to process the stopping up via S116 of the Highways Act 1980, give approval to initiate the legal process to remove the highway rights from Scoreby Lane except for the existing carriageway and 1m of verge either side.

Reason: in order to bring to a conclusion the long standing dispute over the extent of the highway rights along Scoreby Lane.