Document Status
Current
Supplement
Sustainability, Environment, Development & Planning
Abstract
Considers responses to question 3 to the Government's consultation on the reform of the application process governing the stopping up and diversion of highways under Sections 247 and 248 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. This question sought views on the proposal to introduce a concurrent process to allow applications for stopping up or diversion orders to be considered alongside planning applications - known as option 1.
History
Related to the following: Stopping up and diversion orders: reform of the application process for local highways. Consultation paper; and Streamlining the application process on stopping up and diversion orders - impact assessment (both DFT, 2012); Government response - stopping up and diversion orders: reform of the application process for local highways and Stopping up orders under the part x of the Town and country planning act 1990 (both DFT, 2013). This document has been archived by its original publisher.
Subjects
- Transport planning
- Planning and development
- Planning control, England and Wales
- Roads and traffic
- Planning control
Publisher History
The Department for Transport is a UK Government department that provides leadership across the transport sector to achieve its objectives, working with regional, local and private sector partners to deliver many of the services. These activities were formerly carried out by the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions.