Highways
The highways team offers a comprehensive service in all aspects of highways work including:
- major new highways schemes
- compulsory purchase orders
- side road orders
- public rights of way including definitive map modification orders and legal event orders
- in-house conduct of public rights of way and public inquiries and public hearings
- highways stopping up orders including in-house advocacy in the magistrates court
- highway Act 1980 agreements including section 38 and section 278 and dedication agreements
- planning agreements where Section 106 planning obligations involve highway contributions or mineral applications
- obstructions and encroachments of the highway
- tree and hedge issues
- enforcement
- easements
- registration at land registry of highway land
- historical archive research
- in-house training on highways legal issues
- land tribunals or land registry adjudication cases
- village greens
Examples of work include:
- Lincoln eastern bypass and Grantham southern relief road compulsory purchase and side road orders
- public inquiries for DMMO and public footpath orders
- public inquiries for compulsory purchase and side roads orders
- title investigation for east west link road and subsequent compulsory and side road orders
- village green inquiries
