Decision details

To clarify status and highway and financial implications at these locations and confirm appropriate action.

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.