101 Power to fill in roadside ditches etc
Highways Act 1980 (1980 c 66) | Legislation

101  Power to fill in roadside ditches etc

(1)     If it appears to the highway authority for any highway that a ditch on land adjoining or lying near to the highway constitutes a danger to users of the highway, the authority may—

(a)     if they consider the ditch unnecessary for drainage purposes and any occupier of the land known to the authority agrees in writing that it is unnecessary for those purposes, fill it in; or

(b)     place in the ditch, or in land adjoining or lying near to it, such pipes as they consider necessary in substitution for the ditch,

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