Land Adjacent To Withill Farm, Yelvelton - Application to Stop Up Highway
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DEVON COUNTY COUNCIL SECTION 116 AND SCHEDULE 12 OF THE HIGHWAYS ACT 1980
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO APPLY TO STOP UP THE HIGHWAY KNOWN AS LAND ADJACENT TO WITHILL FARM, YELVERTON
NOTICE is hereby given that Devon County Council as Highway Authority for the County of Devon intends to apply to the Plymouth Magistrates’ Court, St Andrews Street, Plymouth, PL1 2DP on 4 September 2025 at 2pm for an Order under Section 116 of the Highways Act 1980 authorising the stopping up of an area of the highway known as land adjacent to Withill Farm, Yelverton as shown edged in red on the attached plan (“the Plan”) on the ground that the said highway is unnecessary. The effect of the Order will be to extinguish all public rights of way over the said land, save that any statutory undertaker whose apparatus is under, in, upon, along or across the highway the subject of this application will have the same powers and rights in respect of that apparatus as if the order authorising the highway to be stopped up or diverted had not been made or, as the case may be, as if the conveyance of land pursuant to Section 256 of the Act had not been made. A copy of the draft Order and Plan may be inspected free of charge at County Hall, Topsham Road, Exeter by appointment between the hours of 10.00 a.m. and 4.00 p.m. Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays and public holidays). Any person to whom this Notice has been given may appear before the Magistrates’ Court to raise an objection or make representations on the application. Any person intending to appear before the Magistrates’ Court at the hearing of the application is requested to inform the Director of Legal and Democratic Services not less than 7 days before the date of the hearing by telephoning 01392 382589 quoting reference DEV001/837.
Director of Legal and Democratic Services Devon County Council County Hall, EXETER
(Ref: DEV001/837)
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