Recommendations agreed, together with an additional recommendation set out in bold below:
Agreed to:
(a)
accept the consultant’s final report dated
March 2010 and endorse its conclusions;
(b)
authorise the Head of Transport to update the
authority’s highway record map in line with the consultant’s conclusions and
inform the landowners/residents affected;
(c)
authorise the Head of Transport to undertake
pre-application consultations associated with a stopping up of the highway for
the area shown cross hatched on drawing no. 786/G183C under section 116 of the
Highways Act 1980 and if the consultations support the proposal authorise the
Solicitor to the Council at the direction of the Head of Transport to make an
application to the Magistrates’ Court for an order stopping up this section of
highway on the grounds that it is unnecessary;
(d)
authorise the Head of Transport to include
Northfield End, Bell Street and Bell Lane in Henley-on-Thames in the parking
review including any associated minor works and consult all the residents and
businesses affected and where possible arrange planting licenses with the
administration costs to be met by the County Council but subject to the
satisfactory resolution of the public liability insurance issue;
(e) authorise the Head of Transport to consult
with the Henley town Council again regarding the stopping up in front of No. 90
Bell Street and to include this in the process if they are in agreement.