This is certainly a hypothetical scenario, but say you are a farmer who owns one enormous field that is separated by a public road.
Would it possible for the farmer to come with an agreement to with the council to have the road be demolished and erbuilt around his land? What if hes was a pillar of the community
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The farmer would have to pay all the costs of relocation, unless it was advantageous for the community to relocate the road (eg: old road has become dangerous).
So the farmer owns two large fields that they would like to combine into one enormous field?
I think they would need to start chatting up local and county councillors.
Theoretically, but ruinous and obscenely complicated.
There’s probably no real advantage to the farmer even if possible. I work in agriculture and quite often historic roads/hedges/ditches are placed where the field soil type changes.. so you end up with two easier to manage fields than one big one growing inconsistent crops.
There are two Acts that allow a highway to be permanently stopped up or diverted. The first is the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, but this only applies where it is necessary for development to be carried out following the granting of planning permission. The second is the Highways Act 1990 but this only allows stopping up or diversion if a court agrees with the local authority that a highway is either “unnecessary” or “can be diverted so as to make it nearer or more commodious to the public”.
Found Jeremy clarksons Reddit account.
I’ve certainly seen it happen with bridleways.
Of course not, councils/Government don’t care about farmers land. Remember that land would have been owned by one farmer or another, so it’s going to go through someone’s land, and the cost of building a new road means they don’t want to have to go round certain fields/farmers border, they just want the road building as straight and as cheap as possible