Opposing a traffic regulation order

Guy Evans recently acted for a developer client who owns a large business park in Kent, helping them to oppose plans to pedestrianise access to their site.

To the rear of the site is open space suitable for residential development backing onto a road which is a narrow adopted highway.

The clients were made aware that a developer was planning to develop the surrounding land into a scheme of around 950 homes which would involve “pedestrianising” the highway.

As there was no alternative vehicular access to the rear of the client’s site, that would substantially impair development prospects of the rear of the site. Guy investigated the planning and property background to establish the procedure that the developer intended to use to pedestrianise the highway (a traffic regulation order) and advised on how best to oppose that.  Once the application for a traffic regulation order had been made Guy worked with the client’s planning consultant to submit objections in order to create a negotiating platform for the client, while assisting the client in without prejudice negotiations with the developer for alternative access.