Fount of all knowledge request: Our local council has given notice of closing a local road for a week or so. Typically, instead of asking the local paper to notify readers that "the road from A to B will be closed for X from DD ...", they have taken an advert in the form of a Public Notice, and stated the po-faced bare facts: "the C123 will be closed from its junction with the U456 to its junction with the U987". Since only the highway people themselves know what the C123, U456 and U987 actually are, we are somewhat in the dark. I'd like to look at a map which identifies these roads. Googlemaps doesn't seem to do this. Does any online map? Thanks a lot for any advice, John p.s. I recognize the 'legal requirements' placed upon local councils, but what harm would it do for them to also get the paper to publish a brief, informal, and highly informative article, which we could all understand?

Another John formulated the question : If you type into GoogleEarths search box c123 it will find the road and zoom into to it.

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Nov 20, 2016 23 Replies

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charles 9 years ago

and the local authority had the right to require them to re-instate properly.

Round here when a road has been properly remade, the work often fractures a water pipe or gas main but this isn't known about until the work is finished.

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Dave W 9 years ago

C123 and U456 quoted by the OP are just imaginary examples to illustrate his point. Your picture on twimg, (GridRef TF153856) may well be a C or U road in your Hull area, but is completely irrelevant to this thread. And the marking is not a BOAT (Byway Open To All Traffic) but just "Other route with public access".

Are you paying ?55 pounds per annum for the OS to allow you to make their maps public? According to their terms and conditions, they won't even let you email copies of their printed maps!

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Bob Eager 9 years ago

Don't be silly. That's from Streetmap - who no doubt pay the OS.

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TimW 9 years ago

It's a problem with planning issues. A roads and B roads are marked but never C and U roads. There are different regulations about what you can do to roadsides and entrances without planning on C and U roads. Only the council know which is which. Tim W

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