256 Power to exchange land to adjust boundaries of highways
Highways Act 1980 (1980 c 66) | Legislation

Exchange of land

256  Power to exchange land to adjust boundaries of highways

(1)     Subject to the provisions of this section, the highway authority for any highway maintainable at the public expense may, for the purpose of straightening or otherwise adjusting the boundaries of the highway, enter into an agreement with the owner of any land which adjoins or lies near to the highway providing for the exchange of any such land for land on which the highway is situated, with or without the payment by either party of money for equality of exchange.

(2)     A highway authority proposing to enter into an agreement under this section shall—

(a)     publish once at least in each of 2 successive weeks, in one or more newspapers circulating in the area concerned, a notice giving particulars of the proposed agreement; and

(b)     not later than the date on which the notice is first published in pursuance of paragraph (a) above (“the publication date”), serve

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