69 Stopping up of dangerous access from public road to land.S
(1)Subject to section 71(1) and (2) of this Act, where the roads authority consider that a private means of access from a road or proposed road to land is likely to cause danger to, or to interfere unreasonably with, traffic on the road, they may make an order stopping up the access and may provide a new means of access to the land.
(2)A private means of access shall not be stopped up under this section—
(a)before all objections to the making of the order have been disposed of,
(b)before the expiry of 6 weeks from the date of the first public notification of the proposal to make the order, and
(c)in a case where a new means of access is to be provided by the roads authority, before it has been so provided.