http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/66/section/126Highways Act 1980An Act to consolidate the Highways Acts 1959 to 1971 and related enactments, with amendments to give effect to recommendations of the Law Commission.1981-03-01texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2026-09-24Expert Participation2026-09-14 Part VIII Stopping up and diversion of highways and stopping up of means of access to highways Stopping up of means of access to highways Provisions supplementary to sections 124 and 125 <Abbreviation Expansion="et cetera" xml:lang="la">etc.</Abbreviation>1261Where—aan order under section 124 above, orban order, by virtue of section 125 above, under section 14 or 18 above or under section 248 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990,authorises a highway authority to stop up a private means of access to any premises, then, notwithstanding anything in section 80(3) above, that authority may stop up the access in any way that seems to them appropriate, but not, if the order in question is under section 124 above, so as to obstruct any highway.2Where a means of access to any premises—ais stopped up in pursuance of any such order as is specified in subsection (1) above, orbis limited by virtue of any restrictions imposed on the use (including the crossing) of a special road under Part II of this Act, or by section 13 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967, or by regulations made under that section,and any person suffers damage in consequence thereof by the depreciation of any interest in the premises to which he is entitled or by being disturbed in his enjoyment of the premises he is entitled to recover compensation in respect of that damage from the appropriate authority.3The appropriate authority for the purpose of subsection (2) above in cases falling within paragraph (a) of that subsection is the highway authority authorised by the order to stop up the means of access and in cases falling within paragraph (b) of that subsection is the special road authority.4Where any person is entitled to compensation in respect of any matter under subsection (2) above he is not entitled to recover compensation in respect of the same matter under any other enactment.Words substituted by Planning (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990 (c. 11, SIF 123:1, 2), s. 4, Sch. 2 para. 45(9)1967 c. 76.