Local authority’s experimental traffic order quashed for consultation failure (Trail Riders Fellowship v Wiltshire County Council)

Table of contents

• What are the practical implications of the judgment?
• Does this case add anything to our understanding of how statutory consultations of this type should be undertaken?
• Does this case add anything to our understanding of the purpose of experimental traffic orders?
• What was the background?
• What did the court decide?

Article summary

Local Government analysis: Adrian Pay, barrister at New Square Chambers, examines a High Court decision in Trail Riders Fellowship v Wiltshire County Council to quash the defendant local authority’s order for an experimental scheme of traffic control which prohibited the use of certain motor vehicles on byways close to the Stonehenge World Heritage site.