Highway Issues in Property Transactions - The Key Issues Explored

Introduction

What is a ‘highway’? We travel along them every day, but do you know the difference between a highway and a private road?

What is the difference between a footpath and a footway?

Who is responsible for maintaining your local roads and can homeowners expect an unwelcome bill from the council for repairing potholes?

Gaining access to a highway is vital for all landowners, and particularly for new development sites, so how can you check the route and boundaries of a highway, and what process must a developer follow before linking a new development to the existing road?

This live broadcast session will provide the answers to a number of key questions when considering Highway issues in property transactions.

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive session will cover the following:

• What is a highway?
• Different types of highway
• Cars, bikes, horses, pedestrians and sheep!
• Special roads and toll roads
• Private roads
• Bridges and ferries
• Once a highway, always a highway
• Creating a highway
• Adoption
• How wide is a highway?
• Maintenance
• What is an adoptable standard?
• Working on a highway
• Draining a highway
• Extinguishing a highway
• Obstructing a highway
• Developer’s checklist
• The highways search
• Boundaries and ransom strips
• Footpaths matter too!
• Are private roads better?
• Manual for streets, again
• Adoption bonds
• What about a future phase 2?

Recording of live sessions: Soon after the Learn Live session has taken place you will be able to go back and access the recording - should you wish to revisit the material discussed.