selling of a public highway

[Debbie]

Just hear the B.B council sold off a part of a public highway to Bovis homes, which will send traffic on to narrow roads, can they do this and has any one hear of such a thing happen where they live?

all comments will be gratefully recieved

[Taf]

Our Council has not only sold a road, but allowed it to be blocked during construction of St Davids 2 shopping Mawl (sic). The road will disappear. The council can do this, providing a request for planning permission and similar for highway has been made and not rejected.

[Debbie]

Our Council has not only sold a road, but allowed it to be blocked during construction of St Davids 2 shopping Mawl (sic). The road will disappear. The council can do this, providing a request for planning permission and similar for highway has been made and not rejected.

Thanks Taf, if you mean by Planning permission puting up a public notice, to say this is what they have plan, so those who disagree can voice thier objection, but what if no public notices were issued how would we stand if this is the case. does anyone know?

[Pam]

I think council's can do what they ruddy well like.

[fred]

true

[Spite]

Thanks Taf, if you mean by Planning permission puting up a public notice, to say this is what they have plan, so those who disagree can voice thier objection, but what if no public notices were issued how would we stand if this is the case. does anyone know?

  Completely illegal, in that case.  What I suspect has happened, is that your local council has put small notices in tiny script, on lamposts, and the odd tree in your area, and people have either ignored them, or local Chavs have pulled them down.  What's worse, is that all the council has to do, is prove that they've posted such notices, something which is difficult to prove in law.  Oh, there should have been a tiny, almost impossible to read, notice in the local paper, too.

[Taf]

Notices do not have to be displayed "in situ"... here in Cardiff they may be displayed in a basement of the old city hall. The Media notice usually goes in the free rag which people don't read as it is 99% adverts.

[Debbie]

I agree with you both, on one site here the public notices was posted 100 yards form the site, will be checking the local paper for each time they should have put in a public notices in + one for around the time they block the public footpath that runs along side the road, in the mean time