Issue - meetings

Highways Regulation Committee was asked to determine an application submitted under Schedule 14 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (the 1981 Act), requesting that a Modification Order be made in respect of routes running across land at the middle of Arncliffe Rise, Moorside (the Application Routes), which were shown on the plan, 764/A4/248/1, attached to the report.

It was reported that the application met the required legal test of 20 years use of the whole of the Application Routes ‘as of right’.

Options considered:

Option 1: To approve the application and add the Application Routes to the Definitive Map and Statement as footpaths.

Option 2: Not to approve the application

RESOLVED:

1.The application for a Modification Order in respect of the routes at Arncliffe Rise, Moorside to be recorded in the Definitive Map and Statement as footpaths as detailed in Schedule 1 be approved and the Director of Environment be authorised to carry out the necessary procedures with a view to confirming the Order in the event that no objections are made to the Order.

2.. The Applicant and the owner/occupier of the land subject to the application be notified of the Council’s decision as required by Schedule 14 of the 1981 Act.