Highways Act 1980

1 At least 28 days before the day on which an application for an order under section 116 of this Act is made in relation to a highway the applicant authority shall give notice of their intention to apply for the order, specifying the time and place at which the application is to be made and the terms of the order applied for (embodying a plan showing what will be the effect thereof)—

(a) to the owners and occupiers of all lands adjoining the highway ;

(b) to any statutory undertakers having apparatus under, in, upon, over, along or across the highway;

(c) if the highway is a classified road, to the Minister ;

(d) if the highway is a classified road, to the district council and, if the highway is in, or partly in, a parish or community which has a separate parish council or community council, to the parish or community council, as the case may require or, in the case of a parish which does not have a separate parish council, to the chairman of the parish meeting.