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Guidance: Stopping up orders

Department For Transport

December 6
13:37 2024

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All public rights of way - whether open to vehicles, horse riders, cyclists or pedestrians - are highways.

Stopping up orders are made under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. Different sections of the act allow stopping up for different reasons.

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Published 6 December 2024

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