Stopping up orders
Stopping up orders are usually made to allow development to take place or because the public highway is no longer necessary.
Public highway can include roads, streets, footpaths, public car parks, grass verges and footways. Not all roads, streets or footpaths are public highways.
The term 'stopping up' means that once such an order is made, the highway land ceases to be a highway, road or footpath, which means that the highway rights are extinguished in law.
If an order is successfully made on the public highway, then the land is free of any Highway Authority control.
Public notices of current Stopping up orders
NW5556 - Back Callis Road, Bolton
NW5685 - Land off Wordsworth Street, Bolton