Purpose

Officers have been requested to undertake a highway extent
investigation into the Subject Land. The fields beyond have been
purchased for development and the Purchasers' Solicitors seek to
determine the extent of the highway.
 
Following investigation it is considered on balance of
probability, that the Subject Land has been part of vehicular
highway width for a significant number of decades, and been treated
as, and recorded as such, on a variety of document. Inference of
dedication at Common Law from all the circumstances is appropriate
in this case. Similarly, the Subject Land and other land at this
location was already part of vehicular highway width well before
the CPO and SRO were completed.
 
The
recommendation of this report is that the extent of the highway
recorded at Lancashire County Council be amended to reflect that
the "Subject Land" be shown as part of the highway width of Lea
Lane and be maintainable at public expense, having been part of
said width since before 1835.
width since before 1835.

Content

John Davies, Head of Highways
Network Management, on behalf of Matt Townsend, Director of Highways and Transport, took a
decision to approve the recommendation in the report.