Purpose

To ask the Cabinet Member for Highways, Street
Scene & Flooding to consider whether Wiltshire Council should
apply to the magistrates’ court for an order stopping-up
(i.e. extinguishing)
highway rights over a section of highway adjacent to the
property known as 7 Pennycress Drive on the ground that the section
concerned is unnecessary for public use or any other
highway-related reason.
 
The section of highway is shown cross-hatched
on the plan at Appendix 1. Photographs are shown at
Appendix 2.

Content

I give consent to the application as set out
in the report. 
 
This decision was published on 28 November
2025 and will take effect from 8 December 2025. 

Reasons for the decision

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.
 

Alternative options considered

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.